Jesus Received Pontius Pilate Washing Of Hands

I. EXORDIUM:

Are we innocent of the blood of JESUS?

No. The blood was shed for our own remission of sins

Hebrews 9:22 (Amplified Bible)

[In fact] under the Law almost everything is purified by means of blood, and without the shedding of blood there is neither release from sin and its guilt nor the remission of the due and merited punishment for sins.

Romans 5:8 (Amplified Bible)

But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.

II. AUDIENCE PROFILE:

Believers/unbelievers

III. OBJECTIVES:

To show that the LORD JESUS CHRIST is the Heifer that is to be sacrificed and He took away the guilt of Pontius Pilate but was sent to hell.

IV. TEXT:

Deuteronomy 21:6 (Amplified Bible)

And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

V. THESIS:

Praise, worship, glorify, adore, bless, honor, acknowledge and thank You very much LORD JESUS for You shed Your blood for the remission of my sins.

VI. TITLE:

JESUS received Pontius Pilate washing of hands

VII. EXPLICATION:

A. Name derived from: 2 Greek words: "deuteros" meaning second and "nomos" meaning law.

B. Author: Moses (commonly accepted)

C. Date written: 1407 - 1406 B.C.

D. Purpose: The former generation of Israel had died in the wilderness; hence it was important that the law should be repeated and expounded to the new generation before they entered the Promised Land.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

E. To whom written: The children of Israel, the generation which would enter and conquer the Promised Land.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

F. Main Theme: A rehearsal of the laws proclaimed at Sinai, with a call to obedience, interspersed with a review of the experiences of the old generation.—Thompson Chain - Bible Book Outlines

G. Key word: Remember

H. Key verses:

Deuteronomy 6:1-4 (Amplified Bible)

6:1 NOW THIS is the instruction, the laws, and the precepts which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land to which you go to possess it,

6:2 That you may [reverently] fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, and keep all His statutes and His commandments which I command you all the days of your life, and that your days may be prolonged.

6:3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be watchful to do them, that it may be well with you and that you may increase exceedingly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

6:4 Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord [the only Lord].

VIII. MAIN BODY:

Deuteronomy 21:6 (Amplified Bible)

And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

Deuteronomy 21:6 (New International Version)

Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

A. The elders of the city will wash their hands over the heifer

"Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer"

The heifer is used as a sacrifice to the LORD and as a cover up for sins. The elders of the city represents the leaders of that city.

1 Samuel 16:2 (Amplified Bible)

Samuel said, How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take a heifer with you and say, I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.

Genesis 15:9 (Amplified Bible)

And He said to him, Bring to Me a heifer three years old, a she-goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

Jeremiah 50:11 (Amplified Bible)

Though you are glad, though you rejoice, O you who plunder My heritage, though you are wanton and skip about like a heifer at grass and neigh like strong stallions,

Washing the hands was anciently a symbolical action, denoting that the person was innocent of the crime in question. [Source: Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge]

Same scenario happened and we see Pontius Pilate washing his hands over JESUS, the heifer that is sacrificed.

Matthew 27:24 (Amplified Bible)

So when Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but rather that a riot was about to break out, he took water and washed his hands in the presence of the crowd, saying, I am not guilty of nor responsible for this righteous Man’s blood; see to it yourselves.

It was an act that showing that he's not guilty of killing JESUS though the LORD JESUS CHRIST has given him every opportunity in the world to accept JESUS as his own LORD and SAVIOR.