2022-03-06 — “It is Expedient for Us that One Man Should Die for the People.”
1st Sunday in Lent: Date: March 6, 2022
– THE SERMON: John 11:49-53
Theme: “It is Expedient for Us that One Man Should Die for the People.”
I. What Caiaphas Was Thinking.
II. How Caiaphas Proclaimed God’s Truth.
SERMON TEXT: John 11:49-53
And one of them, Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50 nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.” 51 Now this he did not say on his own authority; but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation, 52 and not for that nation only, but also that He would gather together in one the children of God who were scattered abroad.
53 Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death. (NKJV)
PRAYER; THE LORD’S PRAYER
HYMN 380: Thy Works, Not Mine, O Christ
1 Thy works, not mine, O Christ, Speak gladness to this heart;
They tell me all is done; They bid my fear depart.
To whom save Thee, who canst alone For sin atone, Lord, shall I flee?
2 Thy wounds, not mine, O Christ, Can heal my bruised soul;
Thy stripes, not mine, contain The balm that makes me whole.
To whom save Thee, who canst alone For sin atone, Lord, shall I flee?
3 Thy cross, not mine, O Christ, Has borne the awful load
Of sins that none could bear But the incarnate God.
To whom save Thee, who canst alone For sin atone, Lord, shall I flee?
4 Thy death, not mine, O Christ, Has paid the ransom due;
Ten thousand deaths like mine Would have been all too few.
To whom save Thee, who canst alone For sin atone, Lord, shall I flee?
5 Thy righteousness, O Christ, Alone can cover me:
No righteousness avails Save that which is of Thee.
To whom save Thee, who canst alone For sin atone, Lord, shall I flee?
BENEDICTION
C: Amen.
HYMN 173:1: Lord Jesus, We Give Thanks to Thee
1 Lord Jesus, we give thanks to Thee
That Thou hast died to set us free;
Made righteous thro’ Thy precious blood,
We now are reconciled to God.
( Pastor Theodore Barthels )
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THE ORDER OF SERVICE: (p. 22 Worship Supplement 2000)
THE EPISTLE LESSON: Romans 5:6-11
For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. 10 For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. (NKJV)