Most Most people understand that Jesus Christ is the foundation of the Christian faith.

But today on Truth for Life, we'll find out why the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ are actually the most important events in all of human history.

Alistair Begg has titled today's message, The Death of Jesus.

I invite you to turn with me to the Gospel of Mark into Chapter 15, where we're going to read

from the 33rd verse, and when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land

until the 9th hour.

And at the 9th hour, Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eloai, Eloai, Lama sabakthanai, which means, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

And some of the bystanders hearing it said, behold, he's calling Elijah.

And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave it to him to drink, saying, wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.

And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

And when the centurion who stood facing him saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said truly this man was the son of God.

There were also women looking on from a distance among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary,

the mother of James the Younger, and

of Josis and Salome. When he was in Galilee, they followed him and ministered to him,

and there were also many other women who came up with him to Jerusalem. Amen. Father, we pray now that as we look at these words familiar to many of us, that they may enable us to

see the Lord Jesus more clearly, to love him more dearly, and to follow him more nearly.

Amen. Well, we find ourselves on the first day of Holy Week

for those of us who pay attention to the church calendar. Some of us have come out of a background

where our lives were marked by these different days. There's nothing wrong or unhelpful about that.

Indeed, sometimes the absence of such a record

diminishes the impact that it may have upon us. And beginning today and all the way through next Sunday,

the events that are recorded for us in each of the Gospels, not only here in Mark, but also in John and in Matthew and in Luke,

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