Pastor Joel E. Gregory
“3 Crosses On The Hill - Part 2”
INTRODUCTION:
Why were there only three on that crucifixion day? And why these particular three?
God's arranging hand can be seen in the way the three sufferers had been placed. Man meant only to increase the shame on the sinless Christ by putting Him between two notorious criminals as if He were the worst of the three. God, however, overruled in the placing of the two thieves, in order to represent the two great classes into which the whole of humanity is divided both now and in eternity; the saved and the lost. Because all three victims died together, they depict three relative truths. One dies in sin; one dies to sin; one dies for sin. The two thieves were dying for their own iniquities, but the Man on the middle cross was dying for the other two men and for all they represent. Therefore we have a dying sinner, a dying saint, and a dying Savior.
OPENING TEXT: Luke 23:32-43 (TPT)