Image: “The Crucifixion” ca. 1420–23 by Fra Angelico

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Sunday, July 11, 2021

The Book Of John

Series: LOVED BY JESUS

Message: The Crucified

Scripture: John 19:16b-30 ESV

Pastor Philip Miller

Scripture Reading Isaiah 53 ESV

Isaiah 53 ESV and Audio

53 Who has believed what he has heard from us?

And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

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For he grew up before him like a young plant,

and like a root out of dry ground;

he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,

and no beauty that we should desire him.

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He was despised and rejected by men,

a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;

and as one from whom men hide their faces

he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

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Surely he has borne our griefs

and carried our sorrows;

yet we esteemed him stricken,

smitten by God, and afflicted.

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But he was pierced for our transgressions;

he was crushed for our iniquities;

upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,

and with his wounds we are healed.

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All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned—every one—to his own way;

and the Lord has laid on him

the iniquity of us all.

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He was oppressed, and he was afflicted,

yet he opened not his mouth;

like a lamb that is led to the slaughter,

and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent,

so he opened not his mouth.

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By oppression and judgment he was taken away;

and as for his generation, who considered

that he was cut off out of the land of the living,

stricken for the transgression of my people?

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And they made his grave with the wicked

and with a rich man in his death,

although he had done no violence,

and there was no deceit in his mouth.

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Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him;

he has put him to grief;

when his soul makes an offering for guilt,

he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days;

the will of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.

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Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied;

by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant,

make many to be accounted righteous,

and he shall bear their iniquities.

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Therefore I will divide him a portion with the many,

and he shall divide the spoil with the strong,

because he poured out his soul to death

and was numbered with the transgressors;

yet he bore the sin of many,

and makes intercession for the transgressors.

Message: The Crucified

Scripture: John 19:16b-30 ESV

Pastor Philip Miller

Scripture: John 19 ESV

John 19 ESV and Audio

SERMON NOTES

Sunday, July 11, 2021

The Book Of John

Series: LOVED BY JESUS

Message: The Crucified

Scripture: John 19:16b-30 ESV

Pastor Philip Miller

The Crucified: Do you know why Jesus died?

In this passage from our study in the Gospel of John, we come to the crucifixion of Jesus. We may want to look the other way, to not face the harsh reality of an innocent man nailed to a cross, to not bear the weight of the torture and agony and injustice of this moment, because it may it’s just too personal.

We were made to love and serve God, but we hijacked our life, and stiff-armed God, and insisted on living according to our own rules.

If anyone deserves to be punished… it’s not Jesus. If anyone deserves to be condemned… it’s not Him. If anyone deserves to die… it’s us. This is our story: Jesus died for us.

In this sermon, we’ll look at three portraits of Jesus:

1) The Crucified King: On the cross, the King is lifted up for all to see. John wants us to discern the hidden hand of God, moving in spite of all this chaos and injustice and evil, fulfilling his purposes in it all. As Jesus takes his place with guilty sinners, he is numbered with the transgressors. As Jesus is lifted up as King for all to see, so that all people might be drawn to Him.

2) The Fleeced Protector: In His loss, Jesus protects the ones He loves. I’m amazed at Jesus’ empathy and compassion in the midst of the height of his excruciating pain. Pain tends to turn us inward. But look at Jesus! He’s being mocked and tortured and rejected and violated and tormented. And in empathy and compassion, He is thinking of those He loves. Jesus always looks past his own pain in the protection of the ones He loves.

3) The Parched Savior: By His thirst, Jesus quenches ours. Jesus became thirsty on the cross to give us living water so that we might never thirst again! Through Jesus’ sacrifice, He is able to proclaim, “it is finished.” What is He saying? Everything He had come to do, He completed it all; finally, fully, and forever.

Takeaway: Jesus died for you.

Has that reality come home for you? “Jesus died,” that’s just a historical fact. But if you say, “Jesus died… for you,” That’s when it gets personal. It’s all in the pronouns.

Has Jesus become your Crucified King? Is He your Fleeced Protector? Is He your Parched Savior?

Has that reality come home in you? Do you rest in His finished work? Do you really believe “it is finished?” That nothing you do adds or subtracts from the final, full, and finished work of Christ?

Nothing in your past, present, or future can alter who you are in Christ, because you are forever loved by Jesus. And “it is finished!”

Philip Miller Senior Pastor

PASTOR TO PEOPLE

Today after church we will load our two oldest daughters onto a bus as they head out for their very first Student Ministries camp with The Moody Church. Despite all the normal separation anxieties a family goes through at a time like this, we are so grateful they get

to go. I know many of our church families feel the same about this opportunity for their kids.

I’m thrilled to be a part of a church family that prioritizes these kinds of formative moments in the life of our students. It is in these tender years that faith starts to become personal and real. I’m so grateful to our Pastor of Student Ministries, Justin May, and our excellent team of student leaders who collaborate to make these camps possible. They’re rock stars!

Would you be praying for each of our students this week as they head to camp, that they would have transformative encounters with the living God that would decisively shape the course of their lives?

You are loved, more than you know!

Pastor Philip