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Church Jesus is crucified on the cross by his own people . Sunday school lesson DEATH ON THE CROSS (Luke 23:32-48) "When Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said. Father, into thy hands I commend my Spirit: and having said this, He gave up the ghost." (Luke 23:46) It was on Friday, about three o'clock in the afternoon when Jesus spoke these words from a cross on a hill called Gollgotha, meaning "place pf* of skulls." It was Springtime in Jeru I salem, about April on our calendar, AD 30. To the people of Judea and j Galilee, He was known as Jesus, a carpenter's son from Nazareth. To His disciples, and believers, He was Christ, the Messiah. God, the Father, thirty three years i earlier, had sent His Son to earth in human form for just this purpose, Seeing the event of this day outside of the context of God working His will in history is to miss much. Jesus on the cross was there purposely to pay the penalty for all of mankind's sin, even those who were guilty of His crucifix ion. Through His death God, the cre ator, was making a new covenant with man? it, too, was a blood cove nant, sealed with the shed blood of Jesus. The new covenant would be one of love and grace instead of laws. It would be written in the hearts of man and not on tablets of stone. We Christians respond to Jesus' crucifix ion with mixed emotions. There is, at once, sadness because of Jesus' pain and suffering, and Church News First Baptist schedule The First Baptist Church Sunday School begins at 9:45 a.m. with the superintendent in charge. Morning worship starts at 11 :00 a.m. with Pas tor J.H. London preaching from the subject "Let Justice Prevail" Micah 3:1. The Holy Communion will be served. The senior choir will be sing ly ing under the direction of Barbara Shannon, organist. The First Baptist Church and Pas tor London will be special guest at Poplar Hun A.M.E. Zion Church, Winfall, N.C. at 2:00 p.m. for their annual Men's Day worship. The Rev. A. Hataway is Host Pastor. Pastor London wil preach from the Test "Enoch Initiated God" Heb. 11:3. j London to conduct revival The Rev. J.H. London will be con ducting Holy Week Revival at the St. John Baptist Church, Creswell, N.C. nightly at 8:00 p.m. The Rev. D.W. Lamb is Host Pastor. Services set New Hope United Methodist Church will hold services Sunday April 12 through April 14 at 7:30 p.m. The Rev. Ed Privett, Pastor of South- i em Pines United Methodist Church, Southern Pines, N.C. will bring the messages. Good Friday Services will be held st New Hope United Methodist Church on April 17 at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited. L Sunrise service planned The Hertford Baptist Church will have an Easter Sunrise Service at Missing Mill Park, Grubb on April 19, 6:30 a.m. In case of inclement weather, services will be held at the church. Coffee, doughnuts and fellowship will follow the service in the Senior Citizens Building. kGospel hour planned New Bethel Baptist Church Sunday School begins at 10:00 a.m. with Dea con Levi Brothers, superintendent in charge. Morning worship service be gins at 11:30 a.m. with the young adult choir and the youth ushers in charge. At 5:00 p.m. there will be a Gospel Hour with the J.H. London Crusad ers, the Eastern Star Church of God in Christ of Eden ton, Jerry Zackery and The Drifters, and The New Bethel Baptist Male Chorus provid ing the best in gospel music. The Rev. William Sawyer is the pastor. The public is invited to attend. L Holy week services set Hertford Baptist Church, 124 Mar ket St., Hertford, 12 noon-12:30 will host Holy Week Services April 13-16, 1987. Monday, April 13? Rev. Gene Boyce, Hentford Pentecostal Church. Tuesday, April 14? Rev. Raymond Needham, Hertford Baptist Church. Wednesday, April 15? The Rev. Henry Bizzel, Hertford United Meth odist Church. Thursday, April 16? The Rev. Ben Wolverton, Hertford Trinity Episco pal Church. At 12:30 a soup and sandwich lun cheon will be served in the fellowship hall of the Hertford Baptist Church. Easter service set Snug Harbor Community Church %?nd the Civic League will have an Easter Servicce at 7 a.m., April 19th. It will be held in the park at the end of Snug Harbor Road. The Rev. Stanley Nixon will be speaking. Coffee and doughnuts will be served at the conclusion of the serv ice. The public is invited to attend. In the event of rain the service will be cancelled. j maunders grove revival set The beginning of Spring Revival at Saunders Grove Baptist Church, AprH 15, 1987 thru April 19, 1987 at ?F:30 p.m., with prayer service each ?night. There will be a different guest minister each night with his congre gation, choir and ushers. Leading up to the 3rd Sunday morning service at llroba.m. Wednesday Night? April 15, The Rev. J.W. Law of Melton Grove Bap tist.. Thursday Night? April 16, The Rev. A.C. Robinson and First Baptist Church congregation, choir and ush ers. Friday Night? April 17, The Rev. James Lightfoot and New Haven Baptist Church in charge. Sunday Morning? April 19, The Rev. Jerald Perry and Saunders Grove Baptist Church Youth Choir and ushers are in charge. At 2:00 p.m., the youth of Saunders Grove Baptist Church will be cele brating their anniversary. The public is invited to attend. At you gat older, the chance thot a cataract may develop in one or both eyes become* more likely. A cataract i> any imperfection in the clarity of the lent of the eye. This condition usually comes on very grodually, so gradually that you may not know you have this eye defect until it begins to iriterefere with your ability to see clearly. The lens of your eye must be clear so it can allow light to pass through to the retina at the back of the eye. It Is the retina that sends the image of what you see to the brain. When a cataract begins to form this couses a blurring of vision tfiot tends to increase slowly In most people. When it impedes your ability to see objects dearly, usually surgery Is recommended to remove the lens. Corrective glasses or contact lenses are then pre scribed to compensate for the loss. Cataracts are only one of many eye problems that can be detected by yeur eye doctor. If you haven't hod your eyes examined recently, coll your eye doctor for an appointment. gladness that He provided the way of salvation Dr. Billy Graham has said of the cross event that there were 72,000 angels with swords drewn re ady to deliver Jesus from this death but God stayed their hands. It is important to note that Jesus' death on the cross was as a human being. He suffered the same agony, pain and humiliation that other hu mans would have. He was indeed God incarnate, but on the cross He was Jesus, the human. CRUCIFIXION When Pilate turned Jesus over for crucifixion, He was taken, as was the customary procedure to be scou raged. History indicates that the pro cedure for a scourging varied. In Je sus' case it is believed that He underwent the most severe kind. Four stakes were driven into the ground to form a square design. The legs were spread and bound firmly to two stakes. The body was bent for ward and the arms bound to the re maining two stakes. In this position the torso was sus pended and unobstructed. The whip used was something akin to a "cat-of nine-tails," several long leather thongs attached to a handle. The end of the thongs had attached to them bits of metal, or bone. Each lash of the whip would open up dozens of wounds on the body. With dozens, perhaps hundreds of open wounds, the body would go into shock. From the scourging, there a long walk to the place of crucifixion. In Jesus' weakened condition, Sim eon, the Cyrenian, carried His cross. As the procession moved through the city the wailing of women pierced the air. Jesus said to them, "Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for Me, but weep for yourselves and your chil dren." (Vs 28) At the crucifixion site a crowd had gathered. , The cross lay on the ground, the hands and feet had been spiked to the wooden beams, the cross was raised, the end poised over the hole in the ground and finally, when the angle was right, it slid into the hole and dropped with a thud. How it must have torn the tissues of the hands and feet. Finally, if all the agony was not enough, our Lord hung there naked before His family, friends and a jeer Pictured above is Emma Burke as she demonstrates wok cooking at the Local Chef's Spectac ular ing crowd. Oh, the humiliation. Before re moval from the cross, it was custom-' ary that the victims of crucifixion have their legs broken, but in Jesus' case this was not done in fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever belie veth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16) (Lesson based on the International Sunday School Lessons) Some persons, espe cially those without living relatives, may wish the assurance of a funeral and burial to meet their personal beliefs, and life style. For them, prear rangement in writing with their funeral director may be the answer. Prefinanc ing can also be arranged. We welcome your inquiry on prearrangement. Respectfuly, DON'T FENCE ME IN George Milmore, Pastor Mt. Sinai Baptist Chuch They nailed him to a cross and let him die. And that was that or so they throught. They built a fence around him and shut him out. This man who had come so that men might have life more abundant, he wanted a chance to show men God, they didn't quite know what to do with him, so they crucified him. They nailed him upon a crude, wooden cross. It was better that way or so they supposed. For nineteen hundred years the world has tried to build a fence around Jesus. The first fence with a cross. But that way did not succeed nor could it succeed. They could kill the body; they could not kill the soul. The could destroy the flesh; they could not destroy the spirit which the flesh incarnated, es pecially a spirit which in the hour of its greatest hurt could cry out, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." The cross having failed, the world turned to a far more subtle way of disposing of Jesus: it worshiped him. It put him up on a high altar with its ornate and costly symbols and fenced him in there. It said to him: "Stay there. That is where you belong. Stay there, and when Sundays come, we shall worship you." All the while Jesus keeps pleading: "Don't fence me in. Let me down from your crosses. Let me down from your altars. Let me out of the four walls of your churches. Let me into your minds and hearts. Let me into your homes. Let me into your offices and your marts of trade. Let me into your communities and the councils of your statesmen. I want to get back where I started, walking in the common ways of men and talking with them about how to live and how to lie to gether. Give me my chance. Don't fence me in."
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