Who is Barabbas?
Mark 15: 6 Now at the feast he was accustomed to releasing one prisoner to them, whomever they requested.
7 And there was one named Barabbas, who was chained with his fellow rebels; they had committed murder in the rebellion.
8 Then the multitude, crying aloud, began to ask him to do just as he had always done for them.
9 But Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” 10 For he knew that the chief priests had handed Him over because of envy.
11 But the chief priests stirred up the crowd, so that he should rather release Barabbas to them.
12 Pilate answered and said to them again, “What then do you want me to do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?”
13 So they cried out again, “Crucify Him!”
14 Then Pilate said to them, “Why, what evil has He done?”
But they cried out all the more, “Crucify Him!”
15 So Pilate, wanting to gratify the crowd, released Barabbas to them; and he delivered Jesus, after he had scourged Him, to be crucified.
What is your Barabbas?
• Work – We should all work!
1 Timothy 5: 8 But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- 2 Thessalonians 3: 10 For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
Colossians 3: 23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,
• Money –
Money is not the root of all evil!
1 Timothy 6: 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
• Time – Ephesians 6: 16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
_ James 4:14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
• Sports
• Drugs
Joshua 24: 14 “Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!
15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
Barabbas is a noun – Noun = a person, place or thing.
What have you sacrificed in place of Jesus?
What ever happened to Barabbas?
• I wonder if he passed by Golgotha and saw Jesus haning there.
• I wonder if he passed b the whipping post and saw him beat and mutilated.
• I wonder if it ever crossed his mind, “It should be me!”
• “He did this for me!”
We are all Barabbas today!
Unworthy * Doomed * Sinners * Filthy * Destined for death!
YET HE TOOK OUR PLACE!
Barabbas – son of the father
His first (sir name) was J E S U S
2 Jesus’s stood before them.
2 Stand before you today!
