SIMPLE TRUTHS OF EASTER: SOMEONE HAD TO DIE
Message Date: 4/13/25
Speaker: Pastor Matt Moore

Simple Truth #1: Jesus is King

Simple Truth #2: Someone Had to Die

Death impacts

. But we’re not created to

Reveal Answer

.
Why did He have to die?

Mark 15:29-32
Those who passed by hurled

at him, shaking their heads and
saying, “So! You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in
three days, come down from the cross and save yourself!”
In the same way the chief priests and the teachers of the law mocked him
among themselves. “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save
himself! Let this Messiah, this king of Israel, come down now from the
cross, that we may see and believe.”

Those crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

John 19:1-3
Then Pilate took Jesus and had him

. The soldiers twisted
together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a
purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of
the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.

Jesus lived under Roman Rule.

Crucifixion was common.

John 19:16-18
Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be

. So the soldiers
took charge of Jesus. Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of
the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). There they crucified
him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle.

John 19:25-27
Near the

of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the
wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there,
and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her,
“Woman, here is your son,” and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.”
From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

John 19:31-34
Now it was the day of Preparation, and the next day was to be a special
Sabbath. Because the Jewish leaders did not want the bodies left on the
crosses during the Sabbath, they asked Pilate to have the legs broken
and the bodies taken down. The soldiers therefore came and broke the
legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and then those
of the other. But when they came to Jesus and found that he was already
dead, they did not break his legs. Instead, one of the soldiers pierced
Jesus’ side with a spear, bringing a sudden flow of blood and water.

John 19:38,42
Later, Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the

of Jesus…
Because it was the Jewish day of Preparation and since the tomb was
nearby, they laid Jesus there.

John 3:16
For God so

the world that he gave his one and only Son, that
whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4:8
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Isaiah 30:18
For the Lord is a God of

. Blessed are all who wait for him!

Psalm 33:5
The Lord loves righteousness and

…

What is Justice?

Leviticus 17:11
For the life of a creature is in the

, and I have given it to you to
make atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the blood that makes
atonement for one’s life.

Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is

…

Why did He have to die?

He didn’t. He chose to for us.

Colossians 1:27
To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious
riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

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