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Sunday, November 1Cities Church

Four Great Nails He Bore

At the cross Jesus is cast out, stripped, vilified and crucified, and in each of those sufferings he is still the one doing something: bearing the cross, clothing sinners, loving his own, and reigning as king.

What was preached

• John 19:17–27
• Isaiah 53:5
• Isaiah 61:10
• 2 Corinthians 5:21
• Psalms 22:18
• John 10:18

• Why does John make a point that Jesus carried his own cross when the other Gospels say Simon carried it?
• What does it show that the soldiers stripped Jesus and divided his clothes while the tunic stayed whole?
• Why does Jesus, dying on the cross, stop to place his mother in the care of the beloved disciple?

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1. Sunday, October 25

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2. Sunday, October 18

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   Pilate finds Jesus innocent and the crowd still chooses a guilty robber in his place, and the sermon says that swap is our own story: the innocent Son of God took the place of guilty sinners who could not free themselves.

3. Sunday, October 11

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4. Sunday, October 4

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5. Sunday, September 27

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6. Sunday, September 20

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7. Sunday, September 13

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8. Sunday, September 6

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9. Sunday, August 30

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