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Sunday April 5, 2020 Daily Bible Study The Passion of Christ
47 thoughts on “Sunday April 5, 2020 Daily Bible Study The Passion of Christ”
First passage Luke 23 WEB 40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.” 43 Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” 44 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. 45 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. 46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.” 48 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts. 49 All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.
So much on my heart with Passover and Easter coming up. The parralels between these two Biblical events are monumental and powerful. I am thinking that the darkest hours always precede the greatest revelations and expressoin of the Kingdom.
vs 43… “you will be with me in paradise”. It has only been in the last couple of years that I have begun to distinguish between paradise and heaven. Jesus did not ascend into heaven on the day of His death. That happened after his resurrection and after He witnessed to the disciples. What, then is “paradise”?
I find it a very joyful thought that someday all will glorify God. I pray that more and more would glorify Him today. I see windows of utterance beginning to open as these shakings are bringing unbelievers to a place of seeking something that is fixed and unchanging in the midst of seeming instability.
Yes ,I sense great and amazing things are happening in the spirit realm to bring about open doors of grace to all people through this shaking but especially ‘open doors of utterance and influence in the earth for believers!KC
Good morning ! One had a revelation and humility to confess his sinfulness and also the sinlessness of Christ and admit that they deserved the punishment they were experiencing. Its very sobering to me that they were both in the presence of God yet one still continued to mock and blind to the grace being made available to him in that moment.. I also found verse 48 that I had never taken in before ..that “all the multitudes that came together , when they saw the things done ,returned home beating there breasts!” It seems everyone was affected and moved somehow which makes it all the more unbelievable that one being crucified remained hardened in his heart.
KC
I was just missing how often we miss the comfort, peace and joy available to us in the seemingly darkest moments. Jesus had forwarned them that all of these things would happen and that there was a happy ending to look forward to and yet in the moment they were completely caught up by what their senses were communicating. What a powerful message for us today.
Yes I found that interesting too Karen in vs 48 in the amplified version it says “beating their breasts(as a sign of mourning or repentance) I wonder if some of those were the people who had cried for His crucifixion?
It’s interesting that in this version in Luke, they don’t include the verse where Jesus says “My God My God why have you forsaken me?” This has always struck me very deeply, that He was willing to go to the cross with maybe no guarantees that God would raise Him from the dead and lift Him with the power of His love out of Hades. I also note that all His acquaintances and the women who knew Him stood at a distance and watched.
Wendy
Perhaps this is where a lot of us camp today. We prefer to know Jesus at a safe distance and remain in our place of comfort… All the while He is calling us into a place of total intimacy and oneness. Scripture promises that we will suffer as he suffered.
1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.… ” 1 Peter 44:1 (BSB) here is another verse that popped up while I was looking for the one I mentioned above.
Romans 8″17And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him. 18I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us. 19The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.…”Berean Study Bible
Yes but I feel the work He is doing now is one of CHANGING our ‘comfortable preferences ‘and as I let His love and grace impact me more as I ‘survey His wondrous cross’ my heart is responding more to that call of total intimacy and oneness. Finish THAT work in me Lord and prepare and enable me to suffer as you suffered ,whatever that looks like…
KC
Vs 46… “He breathed His last”… it wasn’t over until he “ex-pired” = breathed out. So interesting that God breathes life in and death happens when that breath separates permanently from the body. Jesus said that no one could take His life from Him unless He laid it down to them. It wasn’t the cross, it wasn’t the crown of thorns, or the flogging, or the sin of the world or every disease known to man that killed Jesus. It was love. He had to be fully emptied to fill our cups.. My God
Next passage Luke 23 “50 Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man 51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom: 52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. 53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. 54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. 55 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid. 56 They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.” WEB
Amplified :Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man 51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:
Bless that man, going against the counsel of his fellow Jews.
Rob
Oh Lord, that we would have the boldness of these precious ones that did not flee but remained and faithfully served you even in the darkest hour. In Yeshua’s name.
When I read these verses about the women’s response to Jesus torturous death and resurrection, I am absolutely moved to weeping.. Not always but more than any part of scripture, I am brought to tears in reading about this week of our Lord’s life. To slow down and imagine the trauma and shock of seeing “Messiah” stripped, publicly shamed, mocked, tortured and crucified… I cannot even imagine the emotional state of these precious sisters… And yet even in death they followed Him.. even in deepest sorrow they had the frame of mind to find out where He was laid and tend to His funeral rites. They could have responded with anger, with disolutionment with disgust, fear… There is a boldness and love in the devotion they showed HIm at this time that brings me to a place of utter humilty and grief.
vs 56. This strikes me. There is this reverence for the Lord (via obedience to and honouring of His Word and Law). The hardest thing to do in a crisis for me is to rest and remain in peace and be still. The inward agitation seems to be gratified and relieved in some measure if there is some sort of activity or action of the physical kind that makes me feel like I am “doing something”. The greatest moves of God in my life are often proceeded by this divine resting place. Committing fully, casting fully my cares on Him. My prayer in those seasons often amount to me repetively telling my mind to be still and trust in God.
I love this little story about the man Joseph. He does a wonderful thing in caring for the body of Jesus, and there is no mention of whether he was a believer or not, only that he had not agreed with the counsel and their deed. He must have risked something to do that. We don’t hear any more about him, but he is immortalized forever in scripture and we honour him for doing this. That is such a lovely story in the midst of the darkness.
Wendy
Next passage.. My heart sings to read it Luke 24 WEB “Luke 24 World English Bible (WEB)
24 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 They entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body. 4 While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. 5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth.
They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?”
I met a new brother this week.. He heard the Lord tell Him.. “You will be astonished but not surprised”. vs 6 is a perfect expression of this. Jesus had spelled it all out for them but they were so distracted by their sensual and emotional inputs that they missed His plain words. I am tuning my heart and ear to hear what He is saying in this season. I cannot help but bubble over to think about this and the glory of God that is coming.
the men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living One among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how He told you, while He was still in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise [from death to life].
Let that be our awareness and our reality, every day of our lives, “from death to life”
Rob
Yes I remember someone saying that it is just like walking though a door into another room. But our hope is, that like you say Rob that it is our everyday reality that we are moving from “death to life”
Wendy
Such an excellent point! Yes!!! I wonder sometimes at how often Jesus said “they are asleep” when someone had died. It is like the two things are so much more similar than we perceive to be almost indistinct to God.
The reaction of the women in verse 5 to the “men in dazzling clothing” seems to be a common one throughout the scriptures when angles appeared to people. I can imagine having the same one.
Wendy
The gentleman we met this last week had an encounter with two angels and had the same experience. He could not lift his head up at all because of the shift in the atmospher and that “fear”.
Angels always seemed to illicit the same response from people when appearing to them …total fear and terror! But what good news they bring ,along with the reminder and revelation with understanding now of what Jesus had told them would happen!
KC
Astonished but not surprised! oh I love this and relate to this as in my humble experience of walking with the Lord ,every time He reveals a ‘new aspect of Himself through His living Word it comes with astonishment but not surprise so much because it always feels like I’m REMEMBERING something that was lost in the fall. Remembering who I was before the foundations of the earth… does anyone else experience the same??
KC
Healing and Discipleship 
First passage Luke 23 WEB 40 But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Don’t you even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.” 43 Jesus said to him, “Assuredly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” 44 It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour. 45 The sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn in two. 46 Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” Having said this, he breathed his last.
47 When the centurion saw what was done, he glorified God, saying, “Certainly this was a righteous man.” 48 All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts. 49 All his acquaintances and the women who followed with him from Galilee stood at a distance, watching these things.
So much on my heart with Passover and Easter coming up. The parralels between these two Biblical events are monumental and powerful. I am thinking that the darkest hours always precede the greatest revelations and expressoin of the Kingdom.
vs 43… “you will be with me in paradise”. It has only been in the last couple of years that I have begun to distinguish between paradise and heaven. Jesus did not ascend into heaven on the day of His death. That happened after his resurrection and after He witnessed to the disciples. What, then is “paradise”?
Good question…as I always thought they were the same thing. Rev.2:7 indicates that the tree of Life is there…KC
Great question! So many avenues to pursue. Great topic all its own.
No quick answers.
Rob
I find it a very joyful thought that someday all will glorify God. I pray that more and more would glorify Him today. I see windows of utterance beginning to open as these shakings are bringing unbelievers to a place of seeking something that is fixed and unchanging in the midst of seeming instability.
Yes ,I sense great and amazing things are happening in the spirit realm to bring about open doors of grace to all people through this shaking but especially ‘open doors of utterance and influence in the earth for believers!KC
Good morning all. Happy to be with you this morning.
Wendy
Good morning Wendy! Blessings
Hi Wendy! Love you!
Good morning ! One had a revelation and humility to confess his sinfulness and also the sinlessness of Christ and admit that they deserved the punishment they were experiencing. Its very sobering to me that they were both in the presence of God yet one still continued to mock and blind to the grace being made available to him in that moment.. I also found verse 48 that I had never taken in before ..that “all the multitudes that came together , when they saw the things done ,returned home beating there breasts!” It seems everyone was affected and moved somehow which makes it all the more unbelievable that one being crucified remained hardened in his heart.
KC
I was just missing how often we miss the comfort, peace and joy available to us in the seemingly darkest moments. Jesus had forwarned them that all of these things would happen and that there was a happy ending to look forward to and yet in the moment they were completely caught up by what their senses were communicating. What a powerful message for us today.
Yes I found that interesting too Karen in vs 48 in the amplified version it says “beating their breasts(as a sign of mourning or repentance) I wonder if some of those were the people who had cried for His crucifixion?
Wendy
It’s interesting that in this version in Luke, they don’t include the verse where Jesus says “My God My God why have you forsaken me?” This has always struck me very deeply, that He was willing to go to the cross with maybe no guarantees that God would raise Him from the dead and lift Him with the power of His love out of Hades. I also note that all His acquaintances and the women who knew Him stood at a distance and watched.
Wendy
Perhaps this is where a lot of us camp today. We prefer to know Jesus at a safe distance and remain in our place of comfort… All the while He is calling us into a place of total intimacy and oneness. Scripture promises that we will suffer as he suffered.
1Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin. 2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.… ” 1 Peter 44:1 (BSB) here is another verse that popped up while I was looking for the one I mentioned above.
Romans 8″17And if we are children, then we are heirs: heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ—if indeed we suffer with Him, so that we may also be glorified with Him. 18I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us. 19The creation waits in eager expectation for the revelation of the sons of God.…”Berean Study Bible
Good morning all.
This is an astute observation. Most of us do indeed “stand at a distance”
Sally
Good morning Sally, so nice to have you with us!
Yes but I feel the work He is doing now is one of CHANGING our ‘comfortable preferences ‘and as I let His love and grace impact me more as I ‘survey His wondrous cross’ my heart is responding more to that call of total intimacy and oneness. Finish THAT work in me Lord and prepare and enable me to suffer as you suffered ,whatever that looks like…
KC
Amen!!! Wendy
Vs 46… “He breathed His last”… it wasn’t over until he “ex-pired” = breathed out. So interesting that God breathes life in and death happens when that breath separates permanently from the body. Jesus said that no one could take His life from Him unless He laid it down to them. It wasn’t the cross, it wasn’t the crown of thorns, or the flogging, or the sin of the world or every disease known to man that killed Jesus. It was love. He had to be fully emptied to fill our cups.. My God
Good observation about “breathed out”.
I have always Loved the aspect that no one took His life, He willingly laid it down.
Awesome
Rob
Amen! He gave ,He emptied, laid down and relinquished willingly…
KC
Next passage Luke 23 “50 Behold, a man named Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man 51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom: 52 this man went to Pilate, and asked for Jesus’ body. 53 He took it down, and wrapped it in a linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that was cut in stone, where no one had ever been laid. 54 It was the day of the Preparation, and the Sabbath was drawing near. 55 The women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and saw the tomb, and how his body was laid. 56 They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.” WEB
Amplified :Joseph, who was a member of the council, a good and righteous man 51 (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), from Arimathaea, a city of the Jews, who was also waiting for God’s Kingdom:
Bless that man, going against the counsel of his fellow Jews.
Rob
Oh Lord, that we would have the boldness of these precious ones that did not flee but remained and faithfully served you even in the darkest hour. In Yeshua’s name.
Amen,amen!
KC
When I read these verses about the women’s response to Jesus torturous death and resurrection, I am absolutely moved to weeping.. Not always but more than any part of scripture, I am brought to tears in reading about this week of our Lord’s life. To slow down and imagine the trauma and shock of seeing “Messiah” stripped, publicly shamed, mocked, tortured and crucified… I cannot even imagine the emotional state of these precious sisters… And yet even in death they followed Him.. even in deepest sorrow they had the frame of mind to find out where He was laid and tend to His funeral rites. They could have responded with anger, with disolutionment with disgust, fear… There is a boldness and love in the devotion they showed HIm at this time that brings me to a place of utter humilty and grief.
Yes I feel the same way, it is such a wonderful story of love and serving.
Wendy
vs 56. This strikes me. There is this reverence for the Lord (via obedience to and honouring of His Word and Law). The hardest thing to do in a crisis for me is to rest and remain in peace and be still. The inward agitation seems to be gratified and relieved in some measure if there is some sort of activity or action of the physical kind that makes me feel like I am “doing something”. The greatest moves of God in my life are often proceeded by this divine resting place. Committing fully, casting fully my cares on Him. My prayer in those seasons often amount to me repetively telling my mind to be still and trust in God.
I love this little story about the man Joseph. He does a wonderful thing in caring for the body of Jesus, and there is no mention of whether he was a believer or not, only that he had not agreed with the counsel and their deed. He must have risked something to do that. We don’t hear any more about him, but he is immortalized forever in scripture and we honour him for doing this. That is such a lovely story in the midst of the darkness.
Wendy
So so inspiring and motivating.
Next passage.. My heart sings to read it Luke 24 WEB “Luke 24 World English Bible (WEB)
24 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb. 3 They entered in, and didn’t find the Lord Jesus’ body. 4 While they were greatly perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling clothing. 5 Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth.
They said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He isn’t here, but is risen. Remember what he told you when he was still in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of Man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men and be crucified, and the third day rise again?”
I met a new brother this week.. He heard the Lord tell Him.. “You will be astonished but not surprised”. vs 6 is a perfect expression of this. Jesus had spelled it all out for them but they were so distracted by their sensual and emotional inputs that they missed His plain words. I am tuning my heart and ear to hear what He is saying in this season. I cannot help but bubble over to think about this and the glory of God that is coming.
Amen, Amen!! Wendy
the men said to them, “Why are you looking for the living One among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how He told you, while He was still in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of Man must be handed over to sinful men, and be crucified, and on the third day rise [from death to life].
Let that be our awareness and our reality, every day of our lives, “from death to life”
Rob
Yes I remember someone saying that it is just like walking though a door into another room. But our hope is, that like you say Rob that it is our everyday reality that we are moving from “death to life”
Wendy
Such an excellent point! Yes!!! I wonder sometimes at how often Jesus said “they are asleep” when someone had died. It is like the two things are so much more similar than we perceive to be almost indistinct to God.
The reaction of the women in verse 5 to the “men in dazzling clothing” seems to be a common one throughout the scriptures when angles appeared to people. I can imagine having the same one.
Wendy
The gentleman we met this last week had an encounter with two angels and had the same experience. He could not lift his head up at all because of the shift in the atmospher and that “fear”.
Angels always seemed to illicit the same response from people when appearing to them …total fear and terror! But what good news they bring ,along with the reminder and revelation with understanding now of what Jesus had told them would happen!
KC
Bless your day today everyone, see you tomorrow.
Love Wendy
Astonished but not surprised! oh I love this and relate to this as in my humble experience of walking with the Lord ,every time He reveals a ‘new aspect of Himself through His living Word it comes with astonishment but not surprise so much because it always feels like I’m REMEMBERING something that was lost in the fall. Remembering who I was before the foundations of the earth… does anyone else experience the same??
KC
YES!!!
Blessing on everyone’s day…to experience the joy that is ours in Him!
KC
Blessings Sweet Friends.