Conduit Church Podcast Restored// Mark 14: 12-26 - "Why Did He Die?" W/Darren Tyler
Feb 3, 2020
22:17
Jesus died at 33 years old. Taken out before He ever got started. Didn't have the chance to write out his teachings. He Didn't have time to establish a pecking order. No other world religion was founded by someone who had failed so spectacularly.
Unless his death was necessary for the founding. Unless his death was the religion.
If Jesus was just the incarnation of the "cosmic Christ" to show us the best way to be to attain enlightenment (as Richard Rohr teaches) His death at 33 makes no sense. If Jesus' incarnation and death were just to show us how much he loved us, then someone get a gun and shoot me, I want Shannon to know how much I love her. That's only loving if I'm standing between her and someone trying to shoot her.
He showed us the purpose of His death by sharing it with his disciples at a Passover meal.
Mark 14:16 "So they prepared the Passover."
In the supper that's recorded in Mark 14:12-26 Jesus tells us why He was going to die. By picking up a piece of bread at Passover, and telling his Jewish followers that this bread represents my body broken for you. This cup represents my blood of the covenant for you.
And the lamb? There was no lamb mentioned at this dinner.
That's because the lamb was speaking.
John 1:29 "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"
This Gospel is such great news. Jesus dying at 33 wasn't a failure at all. It wasn't an interruption of his work, It WAS His work.
And His resurrection is proof that it worked. The sacrifice was accepted. Your sins are forgiven.
Unless his death was necessary for the founding. Unless his death was the religion.
If Jesus was just the incarnation of the "cosmic Christ" to show us the best way to be to attain enlightenment (as Richard Rohr teaches) His death at 33 makes no sense. If Jesus' incarnation and death were just to show us how much he loved us, then someone get a gun and shoot me, I want Shannon to know how much I love her. That's only loving if I'm standing between her and someone trying to shoot her.
He showed us the purpose of His death by sharing it with his disciples at a Passover meal.
Mark 14:16 "So they prepared the Passover."
In the supper that's recorded in Mark 14:12-26 Jesus tells us why He was going to die. By picking up a piece of bread at Passover, and telling his Jewish followers that this bread represents my body broken for you. This cup represents my blood of the covenant for you.
And the lamb? There was no lamb mentioned at this dinner.
That's because the lamb was speaking.
John 1:29 "The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"
This Gospel is such great news. Jesus dying at 33 wasn't a failure at all. It wasn't an interruption of his work, It WAS His work.
And His resurrection is proof that it worked. The sacrifice was accepted. Your sins are forgiven.