Shabbat Shalom everyone. Open your Bibles please. We are going to turn to the Gospel of Mark chapter 15, beloved brothers and sisters, Mark chapter 15 is really the climax, especially the verses for today, verses 22 to 41, those verses are really dealing with the work of redemption, the work of salvation that our blessed Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah had to accomplish for each and every one of us if we are ever to be forgiven and be saved and redeemed. And so we read Mark 15, verse 22, And they bring him unto the place Golgotha, which is being interpreted the place of a skull. And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh, but he received it not.

And when they had crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon him, what every man should take. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. And the superscription of his accusation was written over the king of the Jews. And with him they crucified two thieves, the one on his right hand and the other on his left. And the Scripture was fulfilled, which saith, and he was numbered with the transgressors. And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads and saying, Aha, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three days, save thyself and come down from the cross. Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes he saved others, himself he cannot save.

Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross that we may see and believe and they that were crucified with him reviled him. And when the six hours come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, Yeshua cried with a loud voice saying, Elohi, Elohi, lama shvaktani, which is being interpreted, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elias. And one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone, let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.

And Yeshua cried with a loud voice and gave up the spirit. And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And when the centurion which stood over against him saw that he so cried out and gave up the spirit, he said, truly, this man was the Son of God. There were also women, looking on afar off, among whom was Miriam Magdalene, and Miriam the mother of James, Deless, and Joseph, and Salome, who also, when he was in Galilee, followed him and ministered unto him, and many other women which came up with him into Jerusalem. And I'm stopping here in verse 41 because today I would like to share with you that one single message which deals with the crucifixion and the death of our Messiah, Yeshua, some 2,000 years ago on a Roman cross.

And I would like, brothers and sisters, to remind you that really this passage that I just read, Mark 15 verse 22 to 41 is one of the most important passages that is found in the Word of God because the event that occurred about 2,000 years ago from our point of time, this event of the crucifixion and the death of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah is really the climax of all the promises that were promised many years ago by the prophets of Israel beginning with Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15 where we have the promise of the seed of the woman that will come to crush the serpent's head Satan's head but his heel will be bruised Here in this passage of Mark chapter 15, we see the bruising, the death of the Messiah in order to provide redemption, and by doing so, he defeated Satan and he made it possible for sinners like Adam, Eve, Abel, and many others, including you and I today, to receive forgiveness of sins and eternal salvation.

This passage is a very moving passage because in this. Particular passage we see two important things. On the one hand we see the wickedness of men. We see how sinful sin is that even at the time when the Mashiach, the Messiah is crucified on a Roman cross, everyone in this world was against him. That's the one thing that we see. On the other hand, what we see is that a holy and a righteous God could not be appeased unless sin was judged. And he judged sin in the person of his son, the Messiah of Israel and the Savior of the world who was sinless undefiled separate from sinners it's amazing beloved brothers and sisters years ago when we first heard the gospel we immediately were attracted to the person of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah because he have done something for me something for you something for mankind he was punished on our behalf but very little we enter into what it meant for him who is holy harmless who is undefiled who is God who became a man and took union humanity with his divine nature and was willing to go all the way to the shameful cross where he was nailed to the.

Roman cross for the sin of this world. That's why when we read verses such as John chapter 3 and verse 16 that we all memorize it in our hands. And for God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life. But in giving his son, the Messiah had to be penalized, the just one, for us, the unjust one, in order to bring us to God. So Mark chapter 15 is a fascinating chapter. And all the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, all those four Gospels pointed and spoke about this event that happened some 2,000 years ago where God laid the sin of this world upon this innocent, sinless man, Yeshua from Nazareth, our beloved Messiah.

And so in this passage, we see the presentation of the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, again as a servant. And that's why Mark does not give us many of the details that we see in Matthew, or Luke, or even John, Yohanan. And the servant, business, and Job is to do the work for which he came to do. God said, Behold my servant, Isaiah chapter 42. And the purpose of God is to present before us through the gospel of Mark, Yeshua the Messiah, Jesus the Messiah, a servant in obedience to God he came down from heaven to go all the way to finish the work that his master gave him to do we read in Exodus chapter 21 prophetically about the Messiah or typically now these are the judgment which thou shalt set before them if you have a Hebrew servant Six years he shall serve, and in the seventh year he shall go out free for nothing.

If he came by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he was married, then his wife shall go out with him. If his master had given him a wife, and she has borne him sons and daughters, The wife and the children shall be her masters, and he shall go out by himself. But notice what it says in Exodus 21, verse 5. But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go out free. Then the master shall bring him unto the Judges. He shall also bring him into the doorpost and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl and he shall serve him forever.

This Hebrew servant typically speaks about the Messiah, Yeshua, who is truly the Hebrew servant who said, I love my master, I love my wife, I love my children, I will not go out free. He could, because he was the only man who never sinned. And he could go back to heaven, needed not to go through the cross and died on a Roman cross, because he was the only man that never sinned. The wages of sin is death, but he chose to love you and I. And sure enough, the Hebrew servants were taken by his master. And he went to the doorpost, which represent the cross.

And there his ear was bore with an owl and he served his master forever. And here's our blessed Lord Yeshua have gone all the way to the doorpost represented by the shameful cross where he was nailed, crucified, where they pierced his hands and his feet and he died there, the just one for the unjust in order to bring us to God. So let me just present before you some of the thoughts that we have here in Mark chapter 15. First of all, I want you to notice that in verses 22 and verse 23, Yeshua was brought to Golgatha. In Hebrew, we call it Golgolet, to the place of Eskol.

Notice verse 22, and they bring him unto the place Golgatha, which is being interpreted the place of a skull, and they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh, but he received it not. Now we just read in a previous verse that he was carrying the cross when a criminal in those days was guilty, they would have him bear his very own cross. But with Yeshua, he was not guilty. And he still bore that tree, that cross on his shoulder. But as he was walking, remember that he was beaten by the Jewish leaders in the house of Caiaphas. And then he was beaten again and scourged by the Roman soldiers who have ripped his back apart and his body apart.

They placed upon his head the crown of thorns and shoved it down his head. And now they were asking him to carry the cross on the way to Golgotha and by that time he was so broken physically that he was caving under the carrying of that tree that cross and so they found a man one Simon Cyrenian who passed by to bear his cross and therefore while they led him earlier by now they don't only lead him they bring him they were helping him even to continue on because that word bring him Pharaoh in the Greek is a word that speaks about the fact that it's not only that he had been led now but he's actually been bore by others to help him along to continue on to the place that is called Gulgolet.

Golgotha. What is Gulgolet? The place of a skull apparently in this area there were so many skulls that were left from crucifixion and there the Lord Yeshua the Messiah was brought to, was carried to. And you notice it says here that it's called a place. Golgatha it's a location those of you that have been with me to Israel we always go to this very same location where there is a hill that is the shape of a skull and also below the hill is where the crucifixion would take place as the people would pass by so it's not a far far away hill It was right by the road when he was going to be crucified, where people will pass by and they will observe and see the results of a violation of the Roman laws.

And there he was going to be crucified on a Roman cross. And so they brought him. You see in verse 22, you read the word, they brought him, while earlier we read that they led him. He started being led but now he's being brought because he was no longer having strength that he had earlier because of all the beating that he experienced both by the Jewish leaders and by the gentle Roman soldiers and you can just imagine the Lord, the Messiah is all the way walking towards that place called in the Latin it's called Calvary In English they call it Golgatha, in Hebrew we call it Gulgolet, the place of a skull.

And so now you notice that they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh, in other words they wanted to kind of ease the pain when you have some wine mingled with gall. This was supposed to ease the pain that one would have because of the soldiers beating. But you see, he would not drink that. In Proverbs 31 verses 6 and 7 says, Give a strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that be of heavy heart. Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more. And it is interesting that that wine mixed with gold would be given to him to ease the pain that he had, but he did not accept it.

He was heading towards that cross where he is going to bear the sin of this world. He's heading towards Gulgolet, Gulgatha. So now, beloved brothers and sisters, in this Gospel of Mark, We have those three verses that point to the crucifixion itself. We don't have many details that would have been given to us in Matthew and Luke and John. Mark simply leads us immediately and fast into the time of the death of the Messiah. And that's why in verses 24, 25, and 26, we actually see the crucifixion itself. Notice it says in verse 24, When they crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots upon them, what every man should take.

Now, can you imagine? When they are crucifying the Messiah, they would take his outer garments off, and they are casting lots. In other words, the Roman soldiers, in mockery of the person of our Lord Yeshua, the Messiah casting lots upon who is going to have this part of the garment or that part of the garment and that's remind us beloved brothers and sisters the fulfillment of what David wrote prophetically about the Messiah who would come and the death that he will die and the experiences that he will experience. If you may please open Psalm 22 verses 16, 17, and 18. David, the king of Israel, is a picture of the Mashiach.

And many times when David wrote his Psalms, he was writing the experiences that the Mashiach of Israel will experience when he will come to this world. And specifically, Psalm 22 is one of the most amazing Psalms. Psalm 22 is really presenting before us the sin offerings of the Messiah himself, who will die for the sin of this world. And so in verse 16, David said, For dogs have come past me, the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me. But here, notice what David is saying. And they pierced my hands and my feet. It is so interesting that David already in his days, you see, because when our people would execute someone who would have to be put to death, Israel, the Jewish people, will stone the person.

But here we see of someone who is not going to be stoned, but rather he will be pierced through. And that's why David said here, they pierce my hands and my feet. In Hebrew it says, ka'ari yadai veraglai. Now the word ka'ari oftentimes is being read as a lion, but someone corrupted this word. It should be ka'aru yadai veraglai. They pierced my hands and my feet. This is the way the Romans executed those who were guilty. All the thieves and the robbers and those that opposed the Romans, they will be crucified. They will be pierced through with nails and hung upon the cross. But notice, he continued in verse 17, i may tell all my bones they look and stare upon me and then verse 18 and they parted my garments among them and cast lots upon my vesture David who knew exactly by divine design prophetically what would happen to the Messiah who would come and when i say knew exactly because God had revealed this to him to put it for us in the Hebrew in the Tanakh he could write what would happen to the Messiah when he's coming so as we read in Mark when they crucified him they parted his garment casting lots upon them what every man should take and then notice verse 25 Yeshua's crucifixion was on the third hour of the Jewish counting notice it says here and it was the third hour and they crucified him now pause with me for a moment there's a difference between the daily calculation of the people of Israel in contrast to the way that the Romans calculated the day The Romans calculate day from midnight to midnight, 24 hours per day beginning from midnight.

But in the Hebrew Scripture, it's not from midnight to midnight, but it is from evening to evening. Leviticus chapter 23, verse 32 says, From even to even ye shall celebrate your Shabbats, plural. In other words every day begin at even at sundown whether it is six o'clock 5 30 6 30 whenever the sun is coming down a new day begin that's why beloved brothers and sisters when the Shabbat comes in or any day comes in in biblical Hebrew accounting it's always began from the sundown then it goes from sundown until the next 24 hours the new day began so Shabbat would begin on friday evening and will end on saturday evening from even to even he shall celebrate your Shabbat now that's why with the Hebrew daily calendar is divided days the night, it starts from evening, let's say around 6 p.m., and it will end in a morning about 6 a.m., and then from 6 a.m., it will continue until 6 p.m.

That's how the 24 hours are divided. If you read verses of the book of Genesis in creation, it was even and it was morning the first day it was even and it was morning the second day evening and morning 12 hours morning to evening another 12 hours that's how the Hebrew calendar is presented before us the daily hours so you notice here in verse 25 it was the third hour so if the first hour is began at the morning the first hour of the day is about, you might say, 6 a.m., so 7, 8, and 9, three more hours. We are speaking about a nine o'clock in the morning where they crucify Yeshua, the Messiah.

And it's incredibly interesting because I want you for a moment to turn to the Gospel of John. And the reason I'm reading this is because you will notice that John wrote this a little bit differently because John has a different time altogether. John gave us the Roman hour while Mark gave us the Jewish hours of the day. Notice in John chapter 19, verse 14, and it was the preparation of the Passover and about the sixth hour, and he says unto the Jews, Behold your king. You see, John used the Roman counting. He used the word the sixth hour. Jesus was not yet on the cross. It was long before he was on the cross.

Pilate was just presenting him. Behold your king. But when we get to Mark chapter 15. The third hour he was already on the cross. By the time we get to the sixth hour. It was already three hours that he would be on the cross. So Mark presents before us the Jewish counting. While John presents before us the Roman counting. But if we just stay put here with this Gospel of Mark, when it was the third hour of the day they crucified him. About nine o'clock in the morning, the third hour of the Jewish counting, Yeshua the Messiah is being crucified by the Romans. And you can just imagine when they crucified him, beloved brothers and sisters, after they beat him after they rip his back with these metal balls after they put upon his head the crown of thorns he is weak he is tired then they place him there on the ground and they nail his hands and his feet to the cross and they crucify him they pierce my hands and my feet as David predicted about the Messiah And it is about nine o'clock in the morning to display Yeshua, the Messiah, in mockery for everyone that would pass by.

What a sad situation we see here. And yet we know that he had to be crucified, beloved brothers and sisters. He had to die for the sin of this world. He had to be penalized on our behalf. God had to allow him to experience this crucifixion. And notice what we read here in the very same verses. He was crucified on the third day. And notice what the superscription in verse 26 was on the cross, the accusation. This is the king of the Jews. I'm reading verse 26. And the sign of his accusation was written over the king of the Jews, Melech HaYehudim. You know, if someone is guilty in doing something wrong, you might have the accusation, he stole, he robbed, he killed, he murdered, he had done something, he opposed the Roman government, he was against Caesar, and so on.

But what's the accusation? That Yeshua had above the cross the king of the Jews. He is Melech, of course. He is the king of the Jews. There is no doubt about it. But what an accusation. That was not placed there in order to give him the title that really belonged to him. That was placed there in mockery. Okay, you Jewish people, here is your king. Look at him. Look what you can produce, the king of the Jews. The Romans are really saying, Pilate is really saying to the people of Israel, the king of the Jews. And beloved brothers and sisters, Jeremiah said in chapter 23, prophetically about the king of the Jews, Jeremiah 23, verse 5, Behold, the day is coming, says the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch and a king shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth this is the king that once will reign in a future day over the nation of Israel he will be the one that will be of David and he will be a branch a shoot that will come out of the stem of Jesse that's the king of Israel but before he's going to reign and rule in righteousness which will happen at his second coming his first coming he came in humility in order to die and so Zechariah in chapter 9 and verse 9 says rejoice greatly or daughter of Zion shout of daughter of Jerusalem behold your king cometh unto thee he is just and having salvation but notice he is lowly and he is riding upon an ass and upon a colt the fall of an ass in other.

Word he is lowly in humility he came in order to become the one that will be judged for the sin of Israel and for the sins of this world so the accusation Melech Hayehudim the king of the Jews and no wonder beloved brothers and sisters if you just observe it if you just read it and you just imagine what Yeshua had to go through with a mockery by the human race and let me remind you brothers and sisters he is the creator God who became a man all move and live through him he could have called 10 000 angels he could have destroyed all those that oppose him but he did not want to do it because he knew that he came to die when Peter tried to help him in the garden of Gethsemane, Gatshmanim, Yeshua said to Peter in Matthew 26 and verse 53, Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray unto my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?

But how the Scripture shall be fulfilled? He could have called ten thousand angels, but he died alone for the sin of this world. You know, these 12 legions, a legion have about 600. If you think about God, the Father can give me more than 12 legions, more than 72,000 angels, more than 10,000 angels who could just stop anything and everything that man does to me. But the purpose of my coming is to give my life a ransom for many. So you and I, who are sinners by nature, can receive forgiveness of sin. This is the gospel of the grace of God. That God in love for us was willing to become a man and take upon himself this shameful death at the cross.

Now, beloved brothers and sisters, I want you to notice that in verse 27 to verse 32, you would think that people will enter in to the situation and kind of sympathize with him. But you see what we learn from these verses? That everyone was against him. Whether it is the Roman soldiers who crucified him, or whether it is the thieves on the cross who reviled him, or whether it is the passers-by who railed at him, or whether it is the religious leaders who mocked him, everyone was against him. And if he would come today, men by nature will do the very same thing. And so notice that, beloved brothers and sisters, first of all, verse 27, 28, and 32b, look what the thieves on the cross that were ready to die were saying.

Look what we read here. And with him, they crucified two thieves, the one on the right and the other on his left. And the Scripture was fulfilled with sayers, and he was numbered with the transgressors. And then just go down to the second half of verse 32. It says, and they that were crucified with him reviled him. The Hebrew word is herfu oto. You can say they reproached him. How is it possible? In a few seconds, in a few minutes, you on the right hand of Yeshua and you on the left hand of Yeshua are going to be killed. You are crucified with him. You are the last moment of your life.

But even then, they began with, both of them, they reviled him. They are guilty and he is innocent. They are sinful, and he is the Holy One of God. They are the last moment of their life crucified. They took energy in order to revile him and to reproach the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah. You know, thankfully, when you turn to the Gospel of Luke 23, one of them became very wise at the last moment of his life. Luke 23, verse 32, we read this. And there were also two other malefactors led with him to be put to death. And then verse 39. And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If you be the Messiah, save thyself and us.

But the other, listen to this. Answering, rebuking him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation? And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this man have done nothing amiss. And he said unto Yeshua, to Jesus, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Yeshua said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today thou shalt be with me in paradise. Beloved brothers and sisters, look at the divine work that happened in the last moment of one's life. Both of them railing at him. Both of them, as we read in our chapter, reproaching Yeshua the Messiah, but somehow in the last moment of this one's life, one of them that heard the other saying, save yourself and us, he said to him, doth not thou fear God?

In other words, somehow the Spirit of God have touched his soul to recognize we are guilty. We are on the cross because we are at fault we have committed something wrong against the Romans but this man he has done nothing amiss and then he turned to Yeshua and how wonderful to see when someone turned to Yeshua he says Lord he used the word Adoni Lord remember me when you come into your kingdom and Yeshua gave him an answer and he said to him today not tomorrow but today he knew that they were going to die today you are going to be with me in paradise when that thief died by the way you notice he was not baptized he did not go through any other rituals he was saved at the moment that he called Yeshua Adonai Lord today when he passed out of this scene he entered immediately into paradise into the presence of Yeshua the Messiah amazing but beloved brothers and sisters the thieves railed at him but not only the thieves notice back to Mark 15 in verses 29 and verse 30 not only the thieves but the people who passed by just the ordinary people who passed by.

It says here in verse 29, and they that pass by rail on him, wagging their heads saying, aha, thou that destroyest the temple and buildest in three days, save thyself and come down from the cross. The passersby, you know, it might be any one of us who would pass by, who looking at This innocent man placed on a cross and had the audacity to rail at him. The Hebrew word is legadif. They actually blasphemed him. They insulted him. They said to him, you who said that you will destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days? Well, let's see if you can save yourself. Come down from the cross.

Now, do you think, beloved brothers and sisters, He couldn't come down from the cross? He could have come down from the cross had He wanted. You remember what we read in John chapter 10, "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life of myself, no man taketh it from me; I lay it down of myself, that I might take it again, this commandment I have received of my Father." No one took his life. He laid it down willingly. That's why he said, John 10, Therefore doth my Father love me. He gave joy to the heart of his Father when he was submissive all the way to the cross.

So all these who wagging their head and as they were railing at him, blaspheming him, insulting him, saying to him, yeah, yeah, you come down from the cross. Let's see if you can come down from the cross. They were blinded to the fact that he could come down. And for their very own people who mocked him, he went to that shameful cross. So we see the thieves in verses 27 and 28 and 32. We see the passers-by in verse 29 and verse 30. But now notice in verses 31 and verse 32, the first part there, we see the chief priests, the kohanim. They also were mocking him and deriding him. And you notice what we read here in verse 31.

Likewise, also the chief priests mocking the Hebrew word lagu in Hebrew. Said among themselves, they were kind of chatting among themselves, And they said he saved others, but himself he cannot save. They look back at the life of Yeshua in his life. How many people he healed the sick. He allowed the lame to walk. The blind could see. The deaf could heal. Even the dead he raised, like Eliezer, Lazarus. He saved others, but himself he cannot save. Now again, I would like to remind you, beloved brothers and sisters, it's not that he cannot save, but he will not save. He laid down his life as a ransom for many.

Notice verse 32, they continue in their mockery of the Messiah. They said, let the Messiah, the King of Israel, descend now from the cross that we may see and believe. Now they have seen plenty in the life of Yeshua, but they just did not believe. They willfully rejected him. They saw the way he behaved. They saw what he had done in his life and they rejected the Yeshua, the Messiah. Like people today, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. We preach the gospel everywhere. People hear the Bible teachers and the gospel preachers and those who present the word of God. Everywhere in the world, they hear the message of the gospel.

And they are responsible to come to faith in the only one who can save them. Because if not, they will end up to suffer eternal separation from God. And so they have heard, they have seen what he has done, but they rejected him willfully like many Jews, Gentiles, mankind do that. Today willful rejection of the offer of Yeshua the Messiah. So we see in those verses that we read so far that the Romans crucified him, the thieves reviled him, the passers-by railed at him, the chief priests mocked him. Everyone was against the person of Yeshua the Messiah. And you and I would have been the very same had the Lord didn't work in our hearts and open our hearts.

If you remember the days before you became a believer, you wouldn't have any use for this name by the name of Jesus the Messiah. It is only by the grace of God that He opened our eyes to accept Him. Otherwise, we are no different than any other human being here in this world. By grace are ye saved through faith which is a gift of God it is not of yourself lest any man should boast God have opened our hearts and enlightened us to see who Yeshua the Messiah now notice beloved brothers and sisters in verse 33 to 38 we see the last words of Yeshua from the cross look at this verse 33 first of all and when the sixth hour was come there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour and at the ninth hour Yeshua Jesus cried with a loud voice saying Elohi Elohi lama shvaktani which is being interpreted my God my God why has thou forsaken me now let me mention something throughout the four Gospels there are seven statements that our Lord Yeshua the Messiah proclaimed or shared from the cross let me give it to you the first one is in Luke 23 verse 34 where he said Father forgive them the second one is in Luke 23 verse 43 where Yeshua said.

Today you will be with me in paradise the third one is in John chapter 19 verses 26 and 27 where he said to his mother woman behold your son and to John he says behold your mother then we read in Mark chapter 15 where we are today verse 34 the fourth statement that he said from the cross elohi elohi my God my God why has thou forsaken me then the fifth statement is in John 19 verse 28 where Yeshua the Messiah said i am thirsty i thirst and then the sixth statement it is in John chapter 19 and verse 30 where Yeshua said it is finished migmar tetelestai in the Greek and the final that we read of the person of Yeshua in Luke chapter 23 and verse 46 he says father into thine hand I commend my spirit seven statements that Yeshua the Messiah said from the cross three of them he said in the first three hours and the other four of them he said in the second three hours because the Lord Jesus the Messiah was six hours on the cross.

Look at this. Please bear with me. Verse 25, and it was the third hour, and they crucified him. Then a little bit further on, verse 33, and when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land. And then verse 34, and at the ninth hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice saying, Elohi, Elohi, lama shuvaktani. From the third hour to the ninth hour in a Jewish accounting of the day and of the night, Yeshua the Messiah was on the cross. He was crucified at about, and I'm using the word about, 9 a.m. He was placed on the cross there, and six hours he was on the cross until about, and I'm using again the word about, 3 p.m.

In between the evenings where he died. Three to nine, you have six hours. In between, on the sixth hour, there was darkness over the whole land. And you notice that I'm reading here in verse 33, When the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land. Now I would like to say this, brothers and sisters, that I think we should also not forget. All the suffering that Yeshua suffered from the hands of man throughout his 33 years of his life, including the first three hours on the tree, never atoned for the sin of anyone, because he suffered by human hands, by mankind. It is only in the second three hours where he made atonement or a removal of sin from the presence of God.

And you know why? Because in the second three hours that the Lord Jesus, the Lord Yeshua, the Messiah was on the cross, he didn't suffer from the hands of men, but he suffered by the hand of a holy and a righteous God. You see, God had to judge sin. He made that promise already in Genesis 3.15 and also verse 21 when he provided a garment of skin for Adam and Eve to close them and he had to kill an innocent animal in order to cover sinful Adam and Eve. And all those sacrifices that were given of all to our own nation Israel became pictures and type of that which will once come to fruition when the Messiah will come so what happened beloved brothers and sisters Yeshua was placed on a cross at the third hour nine o'clock in the morning he was suffering and listening to what people would say about him for those first three hours and there we remember what we read that the Romans crucified him the thieves reviled him the passerby railed at him the chief priest mocked him He was listening to all the words that men, that the people who were there were saying about him.

And by the way, if he will come today, they will do the very same thing to him wherever he's going to be here in this world. But then what happened? God had to judge him. And that's why, beloved brothers and sisters, it says, when the sixth hour was come, notice verse 33, now there was darkness over all the land. That's the land of Israel. And for sure, the area where he was there, there was complete darkness. And this sixth hour would be 12 noon, when the sun is in the middle of the day, when it's shining at its brightest time. Yet God turned the sun off, and there was darkness.

Choshech, just like he did in Egypt, when he placed darkness upon the Egyptians who represent the world. God turned as if it were the sun from shining for the second three hours. And there, beloved brothers and sisters, he lay upon Yeshua the iniquities of us all. As Isaiah predicted in Isaiah 53, verse 6. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned all each of us to his own way. And the Lord Jehovah laid upon him, the Mashiach, the iniquities of us all. When did he do it? In the second three hours when the Lord Jesus, Yeshua the Messiah, was there on a Roman cross. Darkness, no one could enter in.

It is there that God who is holy laid the judgment on this man who is sinless. As a punishment for the sin of this world. You know, we have read Psalm 22, where David, speaking about the Messiah, prophetically says, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping me? And from the words of my roaring, O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not, And in the night season, and I am not silent. And look what David said prophetically. This is the words of the Messiah, who said, But thou art holy, thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.

God is holy. No one single sin could stand before God. Otherwise, he is not a holy God. That's why every sin that you and I have committed had to be paid for. And every sin that you and I have committed, past, present, and what we will commit after the meeting, or maybe right now as we sit here and as we speak, all those sins have to be washed away by the blood of the Lamb. And that's why there was that darkness. No one could enter in. And God is now laying upon him stroke upon stroke upon stroke. As we read in other passages in the Psalm, All thy waves and billows have run over me.

He bore everything, beloved brothers and sisters. God's righteous indignation had to be laid upon an innocent person. That's why when Israel would be offering a sacrifice, it had to have no blemish in it. A perfect lamb typifying the perfect man, Yeshua, the Messiah, from Nazareth, the Son of God. For example, Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5 and verse 21, He hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God. God made him sin. He didn't make him sinner, no. But he made him sin, atoning sin, sacrifice, in order that you and I will be now recognized and be made the righteousness of God.

Amazing to grasp this truth, beloved brothers and sisters. Peter said it this way in 1 Peter 3 and verse 18. Listen to this beautiful verse. For Messiah also has once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the Spirit for the Messiah has once suffered for sins this is called propitiation he satisfied God and then the just for the unjust this is really substitution he is the just we are the unjust that he might bring it to God this is reconciliation we who are far from God he reconciled us through the blood of his cross being put to death in the flesh he died but he was resurrected he was quickened by the Holy Spirit of God amazing truth to learn here as we read these verses now please go back to Mark chapter 15 and there you notice the cry of the Lord i said to you that there were seven statements that Yeshua said from the cross the first three he spoke about in the first three hours when he suffered by the.

Hands of men. And the second four, he said after he suffered by the hand of God, and he said in Mark chapter 15, verse 34, Elohi, Elohi, at the ninth hour, lama azavtani, why did you forsake me? And of course, the answer is in Psalm 22, for thou art holy, thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel brothers and sisters just let me mention one more point before i leave this verse you notice that when Yeshua was in the garden of gethsemane in chapter 14 in verse 36 there Yeshua said Abba father avi my father all things are possible unto thee take away this cup from me nevertheless not my will but thine be done in the garden he didn't say my God but he said my father avi abashili but on the cross he didn't say my father but he said my God my God elohi elohi lama azavtani now what is the difference that is so important to understand he was speaking to the same God, to the same Father, in the Godhead we have the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

It is the Son who became a man and as a man he is the one that went to die on that shameful cross for the sin of this world. But you see, in the garden he was speaking to his Father, the same God and there he said, Abba, Avi, my Father He said, if it is possible, take away the judgment that I'm going to take upon myself soon. But you know, Abba, Father, nevertheless, it's not my will, but I know that I have to submit to your will as my Father. And I'm going to go to pay for the sin of this world. But you see, at the cross, the very same Father now is acting as a judge.

And as a judge, it's not so much the issue of a relationship of father and a son. There as a judge, a holy judge, he had to judge and punish sin. And at the cross, Yeshua the Messiah was punished for the sin of this world. And that's why he didn't say there, my father, my father. Know at the cross he says my God my God because their God his father acted as a judge and he punished the very one whom he loved so much but he is a judge sin has to be judged and I imagine for example if you and I have a father who is a judge in one of the cities here and he's at home is my father.

But one thing, I've done something wrong or you have done something wrong and one day we have to stand before my very own father who loved me and I love him but now he's at the court the city hall. So when we go to the city hall and we stand before the same judge who is my father, can I or can you say to him, hey I've done something wrong but don't forget you are my father and I would like you to forgive me because you are my father and the father going to say son I love you but you violated the law of the land.

And as a judge I must be true to you as to any other one who committed something wrong and I must punish you because of the wrongdoing that you have done I love you it pained me to see you being punished but yet as a judge I have to judge you in accordance with the law and God's law is holy and he must judge sin and therefore in the garden of Gethsemane he says Abba my father Avi but not at the cross because on the cross on the altar the very same father is acting as a judge imagine the pain that this father who is a judge has in his own heart when he have to judge the very one that he loves so much that never sinned he have to judge him for something he have never done you and i deserve to be there not him and that's amazing that's what captures our hearts that he was willing to be punished on our behalf that's why we love him because he first loved us and after Yeshua the Messiah.

Had to cry that cry in verse 34 my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? And you notice in verse 35 and 36, And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he is calling Elias. In Hebrew, the word is really Eliyahu. This is Eliyahu Hanavi, Elijah the prophet. And some ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar and put it on a reed and gave him to drink, saying, let alone let us see whether Elias will come to take him down you see beloved brothers and sisters notice the word that he cried Elohi Elohi lama shvaktani in verse 34 you notice very similar to the word Elias Eli Eli Eliyahu and you notice that some saying let alone let us see whether Eliyahu will come to take him down and if you remember beloved brothers and sisters in the Scripture in the prophet Malachi we had that promise that God had given to our people Israel of old and there there is a promise that Elijah will come we read about him in Malachi chapter 3 in Malachi chapter 4 those verses that speaks about the messenger that will come but you notice Here, specifically, it says in chapter 4 of Malachi, in verse 5, Behold, I will send you Elijah, or Eliyahu, the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. Well, there is a promise that was given to our forefathers that Eliyahu Anavi, Elijah the prophet, will come to restore the hearts of the people of Israel, the fathers to the children. But you see, Eliyahu will come, but not at the first coming of the Messiah. At the first coming of the Messiah, John, the baptizer, Yohanan, the baptizer, introduced him at his first coming before he started his ministry at the Jordan River. And you see, the Messiah did come.

He presented himself before Israel, But eventually he had to go to pay for the price of the sin and sins of this world when he died on that Roman cross. But he will come in a future day, and eventually he will restore the hearts of the fathers to the children. And Israel eventually will recognize Yeshua, the Messiah of Israel, the Savior of this world, and accept him. And eventually the Messianic kingdom will come. But here we see that verses 35 and 36 some that stood by there when they heard this word or in another gospel which really means my God my God why has thou forsaken me so they were assuming that he was calling Eliyahu Elijah the prophet so when they heard it they said behold calling Elijah and one of them ran and filled up a sponge full of vinegar put it on a reed and gave him to drink saying let alone let us see whether Eliyahu will come to take him down and that is where we have that following cry of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah with a loud voice in order to conclude the work of redemption where he cried with a loud voice and he gave up the spirit amazing when you think about this beloved brothers and sister so after the cry in verses 35 and 36 you notice what happened beloved brothers and sisters in verse 37 notice he gave up the spirit.

It's so interesting to me i mean i can speak about it for a long time nobody took away his life he gave up the spirit. You know, you and I, when we die, a spirit taken out of us. But when he died, he did it willingly. Nobody took it away from him. He gave up the spirit. Who can do that? Who can decide when you die? Nobody can make this decision. That's why today, when they want to commit what you call a mercy death, and they unplug that person And there is always the struggle is, could we do it or could we not do it?

Is it legal or is it not? Is it moral or is it not? But here's a man, Yeshua, who decided when he's going to die. He laid down, he gave up the spirit. And notice what happened, beloved brothers and sisters, in verse 38. The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. And you and I might ask, why? Well, listen, the veil of the temple that God has instructed our people to have there that no one will enter into the Holy of Holies lest he die. You remember when Aaron's two sons offered a strange fire, God smote them on the spot.

And in the Yom HaKippurim, the Day of Atonement, God said in Exodus chapter 16 to Moshe to tell Aaron, You tell Aaron when he come into the Holy of Holies that he did not come at any time as he pleased, lest he die. God had that veil to separate from the ordinary individuals, in this case our people of old. And the high priest alone could enter in only one time in a year. That's it, on the tenth day of the month of Nisan, Yom HaKippurim, the day of atonement. But now that very same veil was rent from the top, not from the bottom, but from the top to the bottom.

It was a high veil because the temple was large and the veil was thick. No ordinary individual could rip that veil from the bottom to the top, but God had opened the veil in order to allow mankind to enter into his immediate presence with no limitation. And the veil of the temple was rent from the top to the bottom. And you know why, beloved brothers and sisters? Because now God has been satisfied. The work of redemption is complete. There is nothing to be added. There is no more need to be waiting for another Messiah who will come on another day. God is completely satisfied with the work of His beloved Son.

And so the centurion in verse 39, when he stood against Him, When he saw that he cried out, he gave up the spirit. He said, listen to what the centurion said. Truly, this man was the son of God. He recognized him that he was the son of God. And there were women there looking afar off among of whom it was Miriam Magdalene and Miriam the mother of James the Lesson, Joseph and Salome who were serving Yeshua the Messiah in Galilee. And beloved brothers and sisters, the work of redemption was completed. God is satisfied. The entrance to his presence is now availed for anyone who would truly believe in Yeshua the Messiah.

Hebrews 9 and Hebrews 10 tells us that the veil is open. Let us draw in with assurance of faith into the presence of the Lord because the veil had been rent and we can come in boldly into the immediate presence of God. May the Lord bless His word to us all.