The Blood that Ran…
Part 3-By His stripes a crown is won
Text: 1 Kings 22:35 (basis scripture)
Text: Isaiah 53:5, John 18:38-40 9:1-3
Intro:
(refresh the congregation as to the first 3 times Jesus bleed)
Now we find ourselves to a place where Jesus is being brought before Pilate. He is brought before him for the simple task of passing judgment on Him.
The thing that we see in our text this mornings that Jesus was indeed wounded (by stripes) for us and that a crown of thorns was placed on His head.
He was passed over for a robber named Barabbas and was scourged or beaten and then a crown of thorns was placed on His head and a reed was given Him in His right hand symbolizing His scepter.
The 4th time that Jesus bleed for you and I was indeed when He took his stripes but I wasn’t to look first at the 5th time that He bled for you and I which was the crown of thorns. We will only look at this for a few moments before we turn our thoughts to the scourging.
Way back a long long time ago, ( as I tell my daughter when I am telling her a bedtime story) God created man and gave Him (man) dominion over the earth. Man was the supreme ruler over all the earth. There was not anything done without man’s knowledge of it being done.
Now we, understand this by the words spoken in Genesis
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Man found his place among the earth and that place was his kingdom for he ruled it all.
In effect he (man) was the king of the world. He was the one that wore the crown, and that crown was handed down to him by his father. So we know that man was an heir to this kingdom because of untainted blood. He was created and He received His blood from God Himself.
God ordained man to wear this earthly crown and be the SUPREME being on the earth. There was nothing greater than man he was it.
However, man decided to give that crown away to someone who was at the time even subject to man, and that was Satan.
Satan took the crown and man was left alone afraid and naked.
So Jesus some 2000 years later came and said to Satan I have to purchase back the crown that you have stolen from my children. I will indeed take it and for the price I will pay my own blood.
The representation of the crown of thorns was so that man could once again be brought back into the royal family and have a crown of life, Everlasting life.
The 5th time that Jesus bled for you and I was when He accepted a crown of thorns onto His head.
Now I want to turn our attention to the 4th time that Jesus bled for you and I and that was he bled from His back by a scourging.
Now as not to confuse anyone I want all to know right off the bat that the stripes on Jesus’ back where for our healing the bible plainly says that in Isaiah 53:5 and in 1 Peter 2:24
But what I want to do this morning is to open our eyes to a parallel or a reason of the placement of Jesus’ stripes.
The 4th time that Jesus bled for you and I was when He took His stripes or was scourged.
Scourging was a horrible, brutal, and agonizing experience. Jesus was stretched out and tied to a stake, Acts 22:25. His shirt was removed, and His back was then whipped with a scourge.
A scourge was a whip with several thongs that had metal barbs tied to the tips. It was Roman practice to lash the victim so severely that death sometimes occurred because of shock or loss of blood.
Josephus describes a scourging so servere that they exposed a man’s bones or inner organs, A scourging before and execution was usually more severe, because the victim was going to die anyway. The brutal fact is that Jesus had His back beaten to a bloody pulp. This explains why He was not able to carry His cross.
The Scourging (show the whip)
1. The jewish method of “scourging,” as described in the Mishna (a collection of Jewish traditional laws), was by the use of three thongs of leather, the offender receiving thirteen stripes on the bare breast and thirteen on each shoulder, the “forty stripes save one” vine’s Expository dictionary
2. The straps had nails, bones, and thorns tied to them.
3. It’s purpose was to tear, rip, and bring pain.
4. Often it would kill the victim.
I. The burden’s on the back
In August of 1930, forty-five-year-old Joseph Crater wavied good-bye to his dinner companions at a New York restaurant, flagged down a taxi, and rode off. He was never seen or heard from again.
(Sixty-Nine) years of research offered countless theories but no conclusions. Since Crater was a successful New York Supreme Court judge, many suspected murder…other opinions have been presented: Kidnapping, Mafia involvment, even sucide.
A search of his apartment revealed one clue. It was a note attached to a check, and both were left for his wife. The check was for a sizeable amount, and the note simply read, “I am very weary. Love, Joe.” (On the Anvil, Lucado, Max, Tyndale House publishers, Inc., Wheaton, IL (1985), pp. 5, 6)
We have all known those who are weary: the abandoned child, the abuse spouse, the neighbor with a terminal illness, a friend who has just buried a family membe. Many of us have been there. Some of us may be there now.
Yet, only one man in all of human history has offered any hope – an traveling Palestinian preacher, the son of a carpenter. He stands before all the weary men and women of the world with the same promise, “Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28)
This gives us an idea about the life some people live and see.
To understand the significance of the 4th time Jesus bled for us (the scourging) we must first look at some scriptures.
And we must first get a meaning of the word Burden
The word burden was translated from the Hebrew word Massa’ which means
Load, bearing, tribute, burden, lifting
a. load, burden
b. lifting, uplifting, that to which the soul lifts itself up
c. bearing carrying
d. tribute, that which is carried or brought or borne utterance, oracle, burden n pr m (BDB) Massa = “burden” a son of Ishmael
The dictionary best describes it this way.
Burden (burden)
n.
1. Something that is carried
2. Something that is emotionally difficult to bear.
3. A source of great worry or stress; weight: the burden of economic sacrifice rests on the workers of the plant
4. A responsibility of duty: the burden of organizing the campaign fell to me.
Now I want to look at some scriptures that give us insight on how the word massa or burden was used in the Bible.
Exo 23:5 If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.
1. If you see a donkey that is having a hard time carrying his burden or his load of someone that you are having problems with then you should still help the donkey even if you do not like the person that much.
Num 4:19 But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:
Num 4:19 So that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go into the sanctuary and assign to each man his work and what he is to carry.
Psa 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
Psa 55:22 Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
So we see that a burden in the way we are using the word today is something that must be carried. And most likely it is something that is carried on the back and shoulders of the bearer.
For us to understand the correlation between the 4th bleeding of Jesus’ and our burdens then we must go back once again to the Genesis or the beginning.
Gen 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Gen 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
a. We see here that first of all man – Adam had just received him a wife and he was living life without worry of anything he had it going on.
b. He was probably whistling that catchy tune “don’t worry be happy”
c. He did not have a care in the world .
d. Babies – don’t worry about anything they don’t fully understand all of life’s little inconcviences
e. The burden of this life has not yet weighed them donw.
f. Adam and Eve where as little children when it came to Sin. THEY HADN’T A CLUE.
But then in Chapter 3:7-11 we see something different
Gen 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Gen 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Gen 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Gen 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
a. God came down just like any other day
b. He came down to be with His children
c. You know they way you and I get together with our families we have fun with each other
d. But today was not like any other day
e. Something had changed
f. Something was different
g. God asked Adam where art thou.
1. First we see here that Sin separates us from God immdeiatlely
2. I guarantee you that God had never before had to come down and say Adam where are you.
3. Adam probably looked forward to the vist from God as much as God looked forward to it.
4. This was a new experience for Both of them.
h. Adam said I was afraid and I hid myself because I was naked.
i. Now I don’t know about you but there have been times that my kids came home and told me something or just happened to say tosmething and I spoke up rather harshly and said where did you learn that or who TOLD YOU THAT?
j. Well God was no different someone had just filled his child’s head with something that was not supposed to be there.
k. God said WHO TOLD YOU THAT?
l. And of course Adam started a trend that all men follow even unto this day. Throwing the blame to someone else. They blame the woman. “My woman gave it to me” But also Adam blamed God for he said “… the woman that thou gavest to be with me…”
m. They were so innocent that they did not even perceive that they were naked and now they were so guilty with the sin of disobediance that they could not look at God anymore.
n. Adam and Eve took it upon themselves to BURDEN every back of every person in the History of Man with Sin.
So we see that the reason for the stripes on the back of Jesus was for our healing but the reason for the placement of the stripes is so he could carry our burden away because the psalmist said in Psalms 38:4
Psa 38:4 For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
We are not in ourselves able to bear the sins of ourselves let alone for anyone else. Only Jesus was able to bear the burdens that Adam laid on our back.
The 4th time and reason that Jesus bled for you and I was, at His scourgin and the reason was to represent taking the burden off our backs.
1. The blood was shed for the remission of sins was shed first
1. From Circumcision – to say the old covenant required a blood sacrifce and so does the new one to make us BLOOD inheritants of Christ Kingdom.
2. From His brow – For the work of God could not be performed by a mortal man without first the spilling of blood
3. From His face – So that man and God could once again be reunited face to face.
4. From His back- Because or burden was excessively heavy for us to carry.
5. From His Head - Because our blood was so tainted that we were not worthy to come into the throne room where only royalty could go.
