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All right, guys, we made it to the end of the week, and all week I have been taking you

on a journey to Golgotha. So I took you to Mount Moriah for the story of Abraham and

Isaac, where God stopped Abraham from sacrificing Isaac and provided a substitutionary sacrifice

in the form of an adult male lamb with his head stuck in a crown of thorns. Then we took

you to the battle of

Eliah where the teenage shepherd boy named a David killed the giant Philistine Goliath, cut off his

head with his own sword, and took that head to Jerusalem, and he buried it on a mountainside outside

the city walls. The mountain? Mount Moriah. The nickname for that mountain? Golgotha or the place of a skull. Now, we need to fast forward

about another thousand years or so, so we've got a 30-year-old Jew from Bethlehem named Jesus

who started his public ministry. He began to perform signs and wonders that, you know, wowed the

crowds and infuriated the religious, governmental, and cultural elites of his day. And over the

next few years,

he gained a dedicated following of apostles and disciples. He claimed to be the son of God,

the Messiah for all mankind, and the Jewish elites just could not really let this perceived

blasphemy stand. So they enlisted the help of the Roman Empire to capture, condemn, and murder

Jesus. The Romans scourged him with a cat of nine

tails and then delivered him to be crucified on a wooden cross. So let's actually pick the story up here

in Mark 15, verse 22. And they brought him to the place called Golgotha, which means place of a skull.

And it was the third hour when they crucified him, and the inscription of the

charge against him read, the king of the Jews. Now, verse 33. And when the sixth hour had come,

and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour, Jesus cried

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