The Meaning of Easter
Why Jesus Endured the Cross
Psalm 22:21-31 We come to our time in God’s Word this morning. I want to invite you to turn in your Bibles to the 22nd Psalm. We’re going to finish what we started last week in Psalm 22 as we consider what Jesus endured on the cross. And you remember as we looked at Psalm 22 in preparation for Passion Week, we looked back at that Psalm because Jesus had intentionally directed us there from the cross. He cried out…
How Jesus Endured the Cross
Psalm 22:1-21 Just by way of introduction, go ahead and turn in your Bibles back to Mark’s Gospel, chapter 14, and follow along as we just make some initial observations in the text. The writer to the Hebrews called us to “look to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith who for,” it says, “the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”…