Calvary Church
The Crucifixion of Christ
Main Idea: On the week before Palm Sunday, we’ll take a journey back and endeavor to remember creation as it relates to Jesus in this moment in time.
Locations & Times
Calvary Church
4700 53rd St, Moline, IL 61265, USA
Sunday 8:30 AM
Sunday 10:30 AM
1. Next Sunday is called Palm Sunday. In the Christian tradition, it’s the FIRST day of Holy Week. This day is the Sunday before Easter and celebrates Jesus' triumphal ENTRY into Jerusalem.
2. It’s for certain that Jesus planned His own PROCESSION. Until that moment in His life on earth, He avoided public ACCLAIM and publicity.
3. We do not know many things about the CREATION. But we do know that God must have created with great joy.
4. As a finale to a brilliant performance, God MADE man. With His typical creative flair, He began with a mound of dirt and ended up with something valuable called MANKIND made in His IMAGE.
5. Before we can applause, our great grandpa, ADAM, swallows an act of rebellion that sets in motion a dramatic courtship between God and man.
6. God’s creation, mankind, vacillates back and forth from repentance to rebellion. But God’s creativity is still flourishing as He seeks INTIMACY with His creation.
7. The ETERNAL on time now God surprises everyone. God becomes a MAN, one of us.
Incarnation means; the second person of the Godhead assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ.
8. God unveils the canvas and the ultimate act of creative compassion is revealed. God on a CROSS. The Creator being sacrificed for the CREATION. That was His Masterpiece.
9. God convincing man once and for all that FORGIVENESS still follows FAILURE.
10. When Jesus said, “It Is Finished” on the cross our HOPE became alive. Everything He did was for you and me.
The statement Jesus made on the cross means that the work Jesus did for us was now complete. Satan didn’t get it. He thought God was dead and he won. But the death of Jesus, the perfect Lamb of God on the cross was Satan’s final blow.
Talk About It
Discussion Questions:
1. Do you have any Easter traditions in your family? If so, what are they?
2. How would you share with someone what you believe to be true about Jesus’ time on earth and what He did while He was here as it relates to His birth, life, death, burial, resurrection and ascension.
3. What are questions you most receive from non-Christians about God? How do you answer?
Next Step:
· Have you considered that God is right now creating and preparing heaven for His children? In light of the magnificence of the earth, how do you imagine heaven to possibly be? And most importantly, are you truly saved by His grace?
1. Do you have any Easter traditions in your family? If so, what are they?
2. How would you share with someone what you believe to be true about Jesus’ time on earth and what He did while He was here as it relates to His birth, life, death, burial, resurrection and ascension.
3. What are questions you most receive from non-Christians about God? How do you answer?
Next Step:
· Have you considered that God is right now creating and preparing heaven for His children? In light of the magnificence of the earth, how do you imagine heaven to possibly be? And most importantly, are you truly saved by His grace?