A Mocked Messiah
Teaching Notes
Anything worth doing in life is hard.
Then the governor’s soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him. As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews. Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’ ” In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.
Matthew 27:27-44
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What, you too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
Jesus didn’t retreat.
They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand. Then they knelt in front of him and mocked him. “Hail, king of the Jews!” they said. They spit on him and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again.
Matthew 27:28-30
Jesus didn’t retaliate.
Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross if you are the Son of God!”
Matthew 27:39-40
Jesus refused to give up.
…entrusted himself to him who judges justly.
1 Peter 2:23c
Jesus responded with love.
When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”
1 Peter 2:23-24
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.
1 John 3:16
Setlist
WFC Lenexa + WFC Anywhere
Take You At Your Word- Cody Carnes
Firm Foundation- Cody Carnes
Who My God Is- Mitch Langley
We Are One- The Collective KC
WFC Speedway
Glorious Day- Kristian Stanfill
Take You At Your Word- Cody Carnes
My Testimony- Elevation Worship
Build My Life- Pat Barrett
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