Firm Foundations

Lesson 48

Jesus was Crucified and Buried

Memory verse: I Timothy 2:5

Introduction

This is the most significant event in history

Nothing has ever affected lives as much as this one event

Jesus was crucified Mark 15:20-22

• Golgotha was just outside walls of Jerusalem

Mark 15:23• This drink was to deaden the

pain of crucifixion• Myrrh was a sap from a low,

scrubby tree Mark 15:24

• Nailed to cross• Lifted up• Sold his clothes

Prophecy: Psalm 22:16

Jesus was crucified (cont.)

Mark 15:25-26• Sign placed to show

the crime of the dying criminal

• Think: what would your sign say?

Mark 15:27-28• Isaiah 53:12 – Deliverer

would die in company of evil men

Mocked while on the cross Mark 15:29-32

• He would rise up again in 3 days

• People thought He meant the temple

Prophecy: Psalm 22:6-8• King David wrote this• God knew exactly what

would happen to His Son long before He came into the world

Paid for sin by death1. Sin must be paid in full

Punishment for sin is death

Not just physical death, separation from God in Hell

Took our place

Paid for sin by death2. Jesus was sinless

God requires a perfect sacrifice

Able to offer Himself to God in our place

Paid for sin by death3. Separated from God for our sins

Betrayed by friends, falsely arrested, beaten, scourged, executed – none was as bad as this

Mark 15:33• Why was sun blotted out?

Mark 15:34-36• People misunderstood

Him Mark 15:37

• Jesus died and gave His life for us

Paid for sin by death4. Did all that was necessary for our deliverance

John 19:30 “It is finished!”

• What was finished? He finished His work of

paying for our sins Did it by being

separated from God and giving his life in full payment

Trusting in Jesus finished work brings us into friendship with God

The veil in the temple was ripped Mark 15:38 Who ripped the

curtain? Why?

• No longer a need for animal sacrifice

• Blood of animals could never pay for sin

Showed that God was fully satisfied with Jesus’ sacrifice

The centurion and women at the cross

Mark 15:39• Centurion in

charge of 100 soldiers

Mark 15:40-41• Trusted in God’s

Word and accepted that Jesus was promised Saviour

Jesus was buried

Mark 15:42-46• Joseph was a rich

man

• Buried in the location of a rich man

Prophecy: Isaiah 53:9

Conclusion Jesus Christ

• Lived on earth without sinning

• Took horrible punishment we deserve

• Separated from God on the cross in our place

It is finished• He died in our place• Full payment for sin has

been made• Nothing more needs to be

done to pay for sins• The veil is torn: the way is

open through Jesus Christ