Sermon

The Upper Room

Tim Keller |  April 6, 2003

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Topics:
  • Death
  • Atonement
  • Jesus' Death & Resurrection
Duration:
43:06
Scripture:
Luke 22:14-34
SKU:
RS 157-2

Overview

One of the great questions of history is, “Why in the world did the early Christians adopt the cross as their main symbol?”

All the other founders of the great religions died old and successful. In absolute contrast, you have Jesus, who dies at age 33, ignominiously, in agony, abandoned by everyone. But on the night before he died, Jesus gave his disciples the interpretation, the meaning of his death on the cross, and when it was all over, it changed them and the world.

Jesus tells us four life-changing principles about his death: 1) Jesus’ death is the center of history, 2) Jesus’ death is the foundation for a radically new, profoundly different community, 3) Jesus’ death is the solution to the great mystery, and 4) Jesus’ death is appropriated personally.

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