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1. All This You Did for Me

Luke 23:33-43

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Burton F. Blair

The Archbishop of Paris assumed the pulpit of Notre Dame Cathedral. He was there visiting to preach a sermon, and his sermon was built around a single story. Thirty years earlier, he told, there were three young tourists who had come into this very cathedral. All of the young men were rough, rude, and cynical persons, who thought that all religion was a racket. Two of these men dared a third to go...

2. Anguish

Matthew 27:45-56

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Burton F. Blair

From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" That is, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?" When some of the bystanders heard it, they said, "This man is calling for Elijah." Matthew 27:45-47 A strange uneasiness settled over those who were lingering around the cross. Around...

3. Concern

John 19:17-27

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Burton F. Blair

Meanwhile, standing near the cross of Jesus were his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, "Woman, here is your son." Then he said to the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home. John 19:25b-27 On the eight...

4. Forgiveness

Luke 23:26-43

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Burton F. Blair

Two others also, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." Luke 23:32-34a The Brothers Karamazov is a novel written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a Russian author,...

5. Reconciliation

Luke 23:26-43

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Burton F. Blair

One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!" But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deseive for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong." Then he said, "Jesus, remember me wh...

6. Suffering

John 19:28-37

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Burton F. Blair

After this, when Jesus knew that all was now finished, he said (in order to fulfill the scripture), "I am thirsty." A jar of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. John 19:28-29 Late Thursday evening, after sharing the Passover meal together, Jesus took several of the disciples with him to the Mount of Olives, commonly c...

7. Surrender

Luke 23:44-49

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Burton F. Blair

It was now about noon, and darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon, while the sun’s light failed; and the curtain of the Temple was torn in two. Then Jesus, crying in a loud voice, said, "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." Having said this, he breathed his last. Luke 23:44-46 By this time, after hanging on the cross for over six hours, the pain Jesus experienced ...

8. Victory

John 19:28-37

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Burton F. Blair

A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the wine, he said, "It is finished." John 19:29-30 By the third hour of the afternoon, Golgotha’s hill had become an eerie place. A thick darkness had fallen over the Hill of the Skull. The darkness had gathered over the hill around noon, but no...

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