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All right, men, welcome back to the Daily Blade this week as we prepare for Easter, which is coming up in a couple of weeks. What we're going to do is we're going to look at the seven sayings of Christ on the cross. We're going to do them in order. We're going to cover seven sayings in five days, so there'll be a couple of days that we squeeze them together. We'll start in Luke 23, beginning of verse 32. The Bible says and two others others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. And when they came to the place that is called the skull, there they crucified him and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left, and Jesus said, father, forgive them, for they know not what they do, and they cast lots to divide his garments.

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Now, if you've been around church for any length of time at all, you have heard that Jesus died on the cross for you so many times you can't even count. You've heard that Jesus was crucified for our sin and you know, oftentimes we just run right past these verses. And I just want to remind you that the Romans had perfected crucifixion. The crucifixion was the most excruciating way that one could die. In fact, the word excruciating comes from the root word crucifixion, which means to suffer, to face extraordinary pain. The nails would go through the hands and the feet of the criminal, that they would be lifted up onto a cross, a cross beam that they carried to their place of death would then be nailed to a post that would be put in the ground, and that most people died, not from blood loss, though some did, but most people died by what is called asphyxiation. That you would have to push up on your nail pierced feet in order to draw breath and to say words. It was to dissuade anybody from ever getting out of line with the Romans. And God, the Son, the second person of the Trinity, was crucified at the place of the skull, and the first thing that he says when he pushes up on his nail pierced feet is this Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.

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I want to remind you of why Jesus came. Jesus did not come to this earth to primarily be a good moral teacher. He didn't come to tell us stories. He didn't come to tell us how to treat people. He did not come to primarily teach us stories so that we would know about our Jewish history better or how to treat one another better.

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That the reason that Jesus came, the reason that he lived the perfect life, the reason that he fulfilled every promise and prophecy of the old covenant. The reason, every single time the enemy tempted him with every temptation known to man, and he rejected that and said yes to the will of God. Temptation known to man, and he rejected that and said yes to the will of God. The reason that Jesus was put on trial and did not call down a band of angels to free him. The reason that he submitted himself to Pontius Pilate. The reason that he was beaten and that a crown of thorns was pressed down on his head. The reason that the blood dripped out of his hand and out of his feet and out of his side. The reason that Jesus was nailed to this cross was for this reason, so that he could rightly say Father, forgive them.

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The reason that Jesus came was to pay our sin debt that you and I owed, our sin debt that you and I owed that when Jesus Christ died on the cross, he was the substitutionary atoning sacrifice for you and me. Atone means to make one with at one with. It also means to make payment for. So when Jesus Christ died on the cross, he did not simply die for you, he died instead of you. That when you and I sin against an almighty, everlasting, holy and just God, then we should incur an eternal punishment. And so Jesus takes our place and God made him, who was without sin, to be sin for us. That we would be made the righteousness of God.

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That the reason that Jesus came was to seek and to save the lost. The reason that Jesus came was to give his life as a ransom for many. The reason that Jesus died on the cross is so that we didn't have to. And anyone who would believe that when Jesus died on the cross, that it counted for you, then you can receive the forgiveness that Christ purchased for you at the cross. Let me ask you do you believe it? The one thing I want you to know is that Christ died to forgive you of your sin. Would you please receive that forgiveness right now?

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