**Luke Chapter 23**
Sometimes I do things and I'm real proud of myself. Sometimes I do things and I'm like, that was not my best moment.
So at the end of first service, Charlie Compton came forward to let us know that she's trusted Christ to save her, amen? And so incredible, it was incredible.
And so moving forward with baptism, and I was excited, I was meeting folks. And then I got down front as the first song was playing and I went, I don't know where my Bible is or my water bottle.
And so let's just agree together, if you ever sit down for worship and you see either one of these, if you could just deliver them up here to the front pew, that would be great.
Today's week three, I believe, of our Easter series that asks the question, were you there? And we're looking at Easter through the eyes of eyewitnesses.
And today you really can't get much more ground zero to the crucifixion than looking at Easter through the eyes of the criminals who were crucified on his left and on his right.
Biblical Christianity teaches that God's gift of salvation is found in Jesus. If you have Jesus, you have the gift of salvation. That good news is called the gospel.
And the reality is when God was thinking how he wanted the gospel to spread from family to family, from person to person, all throughout a community and a world, God's people are God's plan for sharing Jesus with our neighbors and the nations, amen?
Theologian Carl F.H. Henry on the screen said this: "The good news is only good news if it gets there in time." The good news about Jesus, it's only good news if it gets to somebody while they still have the opportunity to respond.
And so there should be an urgency, there should be a burden on our hearts to invite everyone that we can to know who Jesus is, to come join us for this thing that we call church when we gather.
Then none of us knows how much time we have left to respond, amen? And the guys today definitely had very little time to respond.
A message entitled "The Condemned Criminals Were There." I'm going to pray for us and then as we have been in this series, we'll work through the passage as we go. Let me pray for us.
Father God, we thank you for today, we thank you for your word. Father, thank you for every person that's here in the room, for every person who's watching online.
Father, we just thank you for understanding a little bit more about who you are. Father, especially if someone's here who doesn't know you yet, maybe they're not sure what it is to trust in Jesus, maybe they're still exploring who Christ is.
Father, I pray today, Lord, would you help them see these four things that the believing thief saw. Excuse me, I pray in Jesus' name.
These invite cards, a bunch have already gone out. A lot of you have them from Sunday school, but there's more down front and I want to challenge you today.
Because here's the question: Who do you know who still needs to see what the believing thief saw? This believing thief, these two thieves, this guy is literally on his deathbed. He is dying and he sees these four things that change everything.
And those four things are sort of the outline of today's message. Let's jump into the passage at verse 32.
Luke 23:32. This is right after the governor Pilate has given the command for Jesus to be crucified.
Luke 23:32: "Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with Jesus." Now, two other criminals. These seem to be more than just petty thieves. Barabbas was in jail, right? Barabbas is ultimately set free.
And so there had been a rebellion, and lots of those guys had been captured. And so scholars think maybe these guys were in cahoots with each other and with the rebel Barabbas. These guys are on death row, so they're sentenced to die with Jesus.
Verse 33: "When they arrived at the place called the Skull, they crucified him there along with the criminals, one on the right and one on the left."
Unless we think this is something that just happened to Jesus, the Bible says Jesus was crucified before the foundations of the world. From the very beginning, before Adam and Eve ever even sinned, God had a plan that he was going to make a way for sinners like us to be made right with him, amen?
So Jesus being numbered among the transgressors, him being crucified between these two criminals fulfilled a 700-year-old prophecy from the prophet Isaiah.
Now, as we read through the gospels, there's not a passage that goes into great detail about what all was involved in crucifixion, right? Because they knew all about it.
And so crucifixion was everyday life for them. It was the stuff of nightmares. It was a horrific reminder of the Roman oppression at that time in the world.
The ancient historian Josephus called crucifixion the most wretched of deaths. Now, the Romans didn't invent crucifixion, but in a sense, they perfected it.
They perfected the way to make it most excruciating for those who were being killed in that way. And so for Jesus, as he is led away, remember he's already been scourged and flogged. I mean, he's already beaten beyond recognition.
Now he's taken and he's laid on this wooden cross beam. The Roman soldiers would have driven large nails through his hands and through his feet, fixing him to the cross, and they would have raised the cross up, and it would have fallen with a thud.
And there Jesus was lifted up for all to see. I remember as a kid singing songs about the blood of Jesus, and that's exactly what we should do.
But I remember thinking, well, maybe Jesus died from blood loss, you know? But the reality is the way crucifixion works, they actually died from asphyxiation.
Because when you are hanging like that from your arms, you've got to lift yourself up to be able to breathe in and to breathe out. And so these criminals on the cross, they're lifting themselves up to breathe, and they're letting themselves down to breathe.
They're going in and out and in and out. Every breath they take required them to lift up on the nails in their hands and to push up on the nail in their feet.
That's why when the Roman soldiers come in the Jesus story, when they come and they're going to break the legs, that's why, because then you couldn't lift yourself up and use your legs to breathe, and so they would die much faster.
Jesus makes seven statements from the cross. Maybe some future Easter we'll look at all seven, but today's passage gives us two statements that Christ makes from the cross.
Look at verse 34. And the context here just stops me in my tracks. I mean, Jesus is looking out over these religious leaders who called for his crucifixion.
He's looking out over the Roman soldiers who just have beaten him and nailed him to the cross, and somehow he's like, "Father, forgive them. They don't know what they are doing."
And what's incredible to me, or maybe what I can't hardly wrap my mind around, it's not like these soldiers and these Jewish leaders, it's not like they've had a change of heart yet.
In fact, we're told Jesus is calling on their forgiveness, that maybe they can be forgiven of what they've done to him while they're still actively heaping insults on him.
Look at verse 35. At some point, most of the crowd goes silent, but not these religious leaders. They continue to scoff about Jesus.
And how they choose to mock Jesus is a little bit interesting because in a sense, they're preaching the truth, right? He saved others, right?
So even though they wanted Jesus to die, even though they saw him as an enemy, they could not ignore the fact that some lives have been changed. There were people who met Jesus one way, and they became somebody completely different.
They continued to mock Jesus: "He saved others, let him save himself." And the soldiers are also involved in this as well. They joined in with the scoffing.
Verse 36: "The soldiers also mocked him. They came offering him sour wine and said, 'If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself.'"
Save yourself, and they're mocking him. Oh, look at who you think you are. They offer him this bitter drink that's tied in with the scoffing here.
This is not a drink that you want to drink, right? So they offer it to him, and they mock him again for not being able to save himself.
Verse 38 tells us that above Jesus there was a sign, and the inscription was above Jesus, and the description said, "This is the king of the Jews."
Pilate, the governor, had ordered the sign. He had it written in multiple languages so everybody could see it. The Gospel of John tells us that the Jewish leaders did not like this sign because it said the king of the Jews, and they wanted it to be changed to say that he claimed to be the king of the Jews.
And Pilate was having none of it, right? He's like, nope, I wrote what I wrote. It says what it says.
As the Jewish leaders and the soldiers are mocking Jesus, verse 39: "Then one of the criminals hanging there also began to yell insults at Jesus. Aren't you the Messiah? Save yourself and us."
Now, let's just pause a moment and recognize this fact: No amount of mocking takes away anything from Jesus Christ being exactly who he says he is, right? This is just talk, this is just words.
Jesus is who he is. If you're here today, whether you accept him or reject him, he is who he is. Whether you believe he is as Scripture says or whether you decide he's something different, he still is who he is.
And he's not just the king of the Jews, right? He's the king of everything. He's the king of kings, and he is the lord of lords.
But those at the foot of the cross, his enemies that are mocking him, they just could not see who Jesus is. And that's our world today still, right?
There's many people around us. We're the weirdos who believe this crazy story about God Almighty becoming flesh, perfect life, cross, resurrection, and now lets anybody in.
I mean, this is a wild, wonderful story that we tell about who Jesus is, but many people simply will not see. They cannot see, they don't see.
The Bible, however, says that will not always be the case. Philippians chapter 2 talks about the last day, on Judgment Day, and it says this: "On that day, every knee will bow, everywhere, and recognize that Jesus is who he says he is."
That doesn't mean that everyone's going to be saved. In fact, in that moment, some will bow in worship because our savior has come. Others will bow in terror because the judge has arrived.
But make no mistake, every knee will bow before the greatness of Jesus. And so the question again, who do you know who still needs to see what the believing thief saw?
In the Baptist Faith and Message class a couple Wednesday nights ago, there was this interesting discussion about whether we are anxious for Jesus to hurry back or whether we wish he would wait a while longer.
And a lot of the conversation was, man, I'm ready for him, but I know a lot of people in my family and life that aren't. Do we feel the weight of that?
Now verse 39, before we leave that, one thing I want to just point out: In case you're ever reading Matthew or Mark, Luke tells us that one of the criminals is mocking Jesus.
Matthew and Mark say that both of the criminals are mocking Jesus. And so before we freak out, here's what we think has happened.
Why the contradiction? We think at one point, so these criminals, right, they're scallywags, they're rebels. And so they're nailed to the cross, and it's just a normal day of death for any other criminal.
But this one guy, maybe he begins the mocking of Jesus, but something about Jesus begins to shift his heart. What kind of a person prays forgiveness over what had just been done to him?
And the sign said he was the king. What kind of a kingdom might he be involved in? And so he begins to shift his heart.
And ultimately there's four kind of truths that this believing thief sees from the cross.
Truth number one this morning: He saw God as the judge to be feared. He saw God as the judge to be feared.
Verse 40: The criminal with the hard heart joins in the mocking. This second criminal, his heart is softening. He says, "But the other answered, rebuking him. Don't you even fear God since you are undergoing the same punishment?"
And this is even more interesting if they were like business crime partners, right? He's like, "Hey man, listen, don't you even fear God? We're deserving this. We are undergoing the same punishment."
And again, there's so many wonderful ironies in this particular story. Everyone around Jesus is mocking him or has gone silent with heartbreak, and it's this criminal who's dying next to him who comes to Jesus' defense.
He's the one that's like, "Hey, look around, man, what are you doing? Don't you even fear God?" Proverbs 1:7 says that fearing God is the beginning of knowledge. It's the beginning of wisdom.
In our world today, there is a famine on fear of God. You don't have to watch the news much or even look in the mirror some days to realize we don't fear God as we should.
The prophet Isaiah got a vision of God in his glory in the temple, and he said, "Woe is me! I am a man of unclean lips among a people of unclean lips. I am undone."
So this thief, he begins to sense there's something out there. We have done something wrong, and there seems to be, as the story goes on, it's more than just that they're in trouble with Rome.
There seems to be this recognition of, "Don't you even fear God?" I mean, he says that explicitly: "Don't you even fear God?"
And so I say again, listen, every knee is gonna bow in the end, amen? Our God is awesome. We pray, and I hope that we pray, "God, would you move in our midst? God, would you show up?"
And there's no place God is not, right? He's always here. But what we're asking is, "God, would you move in power?"
And I sometimes wonder, would I actually know what to do with that? If he really moved in the way that the fullness, we would simply, I think we'd be all like, wow, and we'd be a little wobbly in the knees, amen?
In the presence of his greatness, a right relationship with God begins with a right-sized fear of God. A.W. Tozer said it this way: "No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God."
And I've shared before my favorite lyric in the song Amazing Grace: "It was grace that taught me how to fear, and it was amazing grace that my fears relieved."
God is God, and we are not, amen? And the sooner you realize that, the better off you will be. God makes the rules, not us.
And as the rule maker, God is also the righteous judge of the rule breakers. Jesus said this in Luke 12:4 and 5: "I say to you, my friends, don't fear those who kill the body and after that can do nothing more. But I will show you the one to fear. Fear him who has the authority to throw people into hell after death. Yes, I say to you, this is the one to fear."
And that's Jesus, right? He's laying out the bad news that God is judge, and if you aren't forgiven, it is worth being terrified.
The thief gets some glimpse of this. Hebrews 10:31 says it's a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of a living God without Jesus.
And so he recognizes to some level, "Don't you fear God?" right? God is a judge.
And then secondly, he recognizes himself as a sinner rightly condemned. He recognizes himself as a sinner rightly condemned.
Back to verse 41, he says straight up, "We are punished justly," right? "We're punished justly because we're getting back what we deserve for the things that we did."
And I don't know, maybe he woke up that morning making every excuse, no demand about why he didn't do it, wasn't guilty, actually innocent. This is all the Romans.
I don't know, but something about this conviction comes upon him, and there's no excuses. He's just like, "I feel the justness that I need to be punished for my sins."
He says, "We are being punished justly." He knew he was guilty before God. He saw himself rightly condemned.
Now the title of today's sermon, "The Condemned Criminals Were There." And so in my mind, I'm like, well, we're talking about those two guys, and we are.
But the reality is the Bible says that we're all condemned criminals if we don't know Jesus, right? The Bible loves us enough to lay out the same bad news about our sinfulness that the believing thief saw.
Man, God wants all of us to see that we have to realize we're sinners in order to realize how good of a savior Jesus is.
Romans 3:23 says that all of us have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. The word sin is an archery term, right? It means to miss the bullseye.
But most of us, we're not even, it's not like we miss it by a little bit. We're like aiming the arrow in the complete wrong direction. We have fallen so short.
We are rebels against the creator. And you may say, "Well, but I'm better than so-and-so." And so if we get into heaven based upon who's the best in the room today, maybe you get in, maybe you don't.
The problem is when Jesus walks in here, we all fall really, really short. Why? Because Jesus, God's own character, is the standard of holiness that allows us to be in His presence for eternity, like His own character.
And so we can do good stuff, but it doesn't matter how righteously we try to live or how many religious things we do. If Jesus doesn't come in, our sins can never go away.
Isaiah 59:2 says that our sins have separated us from God. Romans 3:23 says the weight of sin is death.
Then Jesus pulled no punches when He warned us about hell. It was never designed for people to be there. It was designed, right, the prison for eternity for Satan and his cronies.
But if you refuse to align your life with Jesus, He says, listen, ultimately every soul goes somewhere for eternity.
And so I'm not claiming that this thief on the cross, this criminal had a full theology of all these things, but something's happening in his heart, amen?
He's feeling that God is a judge. "Don't you even fear God?" And he's recognizing that he is a part of this.
And somewhere in the middle of that, I think he begins to think about what's like after the cross and what was after life. I think was way more terrifying to him than anything that the Romans had done to him putting him on the cross.
Warren Wiersbe said it this way: "Before you can open your mouth and call on the Lord in salvation, your mouth must be shut in conviction."
Now, the Bible loves us enough to give us the bad news, but aren't you glad it's not just bad news, right? But that's the bad news!
But the thief also begins to see the greatest news that has ever come from anywhere, and he sees it in the most upside-down circumstance of the act of dying next to Jesus.
But he sees number three, the third truth: He sees sinless Jesus as the sinner's savior. He sees sinless Jesus as the sinner's savior.
Verse 41: "We are being punished justly because we're getting what we deserve for the things we did. But he stands up for the righteousness of Jesus."
He's like, "But this guy, this guy in the middle has done nothing wrong." And this almost comically doesn't fit because of all the places you would expect to find a righteous person, a Roman cross was not the place you would normally look.
But he's recognizing, man, this Jesus, there's something different about him. The Bible's clear that Jesus never sinned.
Romans 4:15 says it like this: "For we do not have a high priest, Jesus, who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, and yet what? And yet without sin."
It was the fact that Jesus was sinless that allowed him and qualified him to be the salvation for sin, right? He's the perfect sacrifice.
The Bible says that on the cross, Jesus took all the wrath, the death that we owe, and Jesus gave his life in our place once for all to pay it all.
And what an incredible truth! And to some level, this believing thief is looking at Jesus.
And I think about this thief on the cross, and a lot of people will say, well, I'm going to kind of have my fun now and do my own thing.
But maybe when I get closer to death, then I'll get really real about this spiritual stuff or I'll get really honest about who Jesus is.
The problem is you're probably never going to figure all of it out anyway. Like, if you're here today and you're like, I just don't have everything figured out about Jesus, I just want to encourage you that you're in good company, right?
Because there's always more of Jesus to know and understand. But think about what this thief knows and doesn't know.
And we don't know if the thief has heard Jesus teach before. Maybe he's just heard the rumors about this miracle worker from Galilee.
Maybe he's heard the rumors in the prison of, "Hey, man, Barabbas just got out of here, and they're killing this Jewish guy who everybody says is a good teacher."
And he's reading the sign, the King of the Jews. He doesn't know much, but then he hears Jesus say, "Man, Lord, forgive those who've done this to me."
And I think he's like, "Man, what kind of a king says something like that? And what kind of a kingdom might be his?"
And he begins to wrestle. The name Jesus means Savior. Somewhere in the middle of it, God begins to open his heart to see who Jesus is.
I mean, this is the epitome of a deathbed confession, right? This guy is literally, he is every breath, he's just one breath closer to literally dying in a few minutes.
And so listen, we should not wait till the end because we don't know when the end is the end. But aren't you, it's incredible, we have a God who will save whenever we call on him.
And so he does come through for this thief. Look, he sees Jesus as the sinner's Savior, but look at number four: He sees King Jesus as the way into God's kingdom.
Verse 42: "Then this believing criminal," right, he rebukes his friend, and then he turns to the middle man, right, he turns to Jesus, and he says simply, "Remember me when you come into your kingdom."
"Remember me when you come into your kingdom." Romans 10 says that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, right?
We trust Jesus, and he gives us salvation. That's this incredible exchange, our sin goes away, forgiveness comes to us in that incredible exchange.
But this is the simplicity. He just simply says, "Lord, would you remember me when you come into your kingdom?"
And remember, get in your mind everything about that moment on the hill of the skull. It looks like Jesus is who needs to be saved.
And that's the moment when the lights turn on in this guy's heart, and he's like, "I think this guy can save me. And now's as good a time as any because I'm running out of time, right?
Lord, would you remember me when you come into your kingdom?" And that brings up something else.
If you notice, everyone in this passage who has mocked Jesus has mocked him because he wouldn't save himself.
Listen, that's the greatest news ever! Jesus chose not to save himself because he was giving his life to save you.
That's why he didn't. Many years ago, I led worship in a church, and they had like the baptistry in the middle, and there was a big painting kind of above the wall, the baptistry.
And they had written on there, and I love this idea: "It wasn't the nails that held you." He chose not to save his life so that you and I could have a chance to be saved from our sin.
The bleeding thief says, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." And again, Jesus, nailed to the cross, he doesn't even look hardly human anymore.
He's been so beaten, he's struggling to breathe. But I just can't help but wonder if for a moment, if some kind of a grimacing smile comes across his face when he says verse 43.
Because this guy gets it, right? Look at what he says in verse 43: "And Jesus said to him, 'Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.'"
Wow, today you'll be with me in paradise! Jesus assured the criminal of this immediate entry into heaven.
And so I don't know what the other criminal was thinking, but he's like, "Hey, later when you come into your kingdom, somehow will you think about me? Will you remember me?"
And Jesus is like, "We're about done here. How about if we go today? How about if we go right now? How about if we go today?"
Now, every now and then I meet somebody who talks about the idea of soul sleep. And so some people will say, "Well, when we die, our soul goes to sleep, and it sleeps, and then Jesus comes, and we wake back up."
And I just simply don't see that in scripture. And this is one of the places where I think it's really clear.
Jesus doesn't say, "All right, man, listen, we're going to die. You're going to sleep for a while, and when you wake up, it's going to be good," right?
That's not what he says. It's today! "Today you will be with me in the kingdom."
2 Corinthians 5 says that to be absent from this body, boom, is to be present with the Lord.
Now I love, he sees Jesus as a king, but he also is seeing Jesus as the way into the kingdom. Do you see that?
"When you come into your kingdom, will you take me with you as you come into your kingdom?" The night before the cross, Jesus talks about heaven.
And it's Thomas who kind of slips his hand up in the upper room and says, "How do we get there exactly? We don't know the way, how do we get to heaven?"
And listen, culture will say this, culture will say that. But Jesus made it really, really clear that he is the one and only way.
He said that he is the way, he is the truth, and he is the life. No one comes to the Father except through him.
And so yes, Jesus is the sacrifice for sin. Yes, he is the king of the universe. But he is also the doorway into the kingdom.
And the believing thief begins to understand this. Now I don't know what kind of a day this is the end, and when he is in glory with Jesus Christ, that is quite a day.
And all of this is witnessed by this guy who breath by breath is coming through. He's dying a sinner, but right there at the end, you have another criminal who's dying a saint.
Do you realize heaven and hell are both completely full of sinners in the end? It's just whether you're forgiven or not.
In fact, it is the recognition that we are sinners that allows us to begin helping see Jesus as a savior.
And so I would say again, let this believing thief be a challenge to you today. So if you don't know Jesus, do you know him?
When I think about the thief on the cross, right, deathbed confession, that whole deal, there's part of us that is like, man, that guy waited until the last opportunity he had.
You know, regardless, man, he came, right, he took the moment and he trusts in Jesus. Jesus died with sinners because he died for sinners.
And those four truths, this believing thief, not only does he enter into paradise with Jesus, he's left edge and you got to fear him as the almighty awesome God that turned away or another.
It's realizing that we're a sinner that helps us to see Jesus as savior, the sinless sacrifice for sin. He takes all of our sin, dies on the cross in our place so we can have the opportunity on a day like today to say, "Hey, Jesus, me too. Would you remember me when you come into your kingdom?"
So as our worship team comes this morning, I want to first say to you today, if you don't know Jesus, man, would you come today? Would you come?
We've been having people receiving Christ, and we're sharing those stories with the church. Maybe that's you today.
Maybe you've grown up and you were like me, you know all about Jesus. Maybe you've never just said, "Okay, but I'm going to actually call on him. Lord, I trust in you. Lord, would you save my life?"
Surrender to him today. Today, you can leave here saying, "Listen, I'm going to bank on the promise of Jesus that if he tells me I trust in him and I'll be in his kingdom, that I'm going to trust in him and be in his kingdom."
We'll have leaders down front. I'd love the chance to open up God's word and just talk you through how can you today call on the name of the Lord for salvation?
Looking around this room, I've heard a whole bunch of salvation stories from those that are here today.
And so for a lot of us today, the question is not do you know Jesus? The question is who do you know who doesn't know Jesus?
And so today we've got these little invite cards. They're down front, there's some on the welcome table. I don't know if I can come forward in a room.
It's just a room where God moves, right? And so I'm going to pray that you would come forward during the invitation.
Man, if God lays someone on your heart, come forward and grab a card this morning. Don't just grab a handful and like throw them out the window on your way home and hope they magically find their way into somebody's hand.
I'm asking for the Lord to bring a name, to bring an address. Maybe you don't know their name. Maybe it's just a face that you see throughout the week, and maybe they just simply need an invite.
The stats say every single year, they're like 60, 80 percent, the vast majority of people, if someone just lovingly says, "Hey, you want to go to church on Easter? You want to come with me?"
The majority of people, whether they know Jesus or not, they'll at least go, "Maybe, right? I'll meet you there. Would you come?"
And so God could change someone's eternity with your boldness to say, "Hey, I'm going to take this little pink card that says Easter, and I'm simply going to say, 'Hey, would you meet me next Sunday at First Baptist Church?'"
Because we believe Jesus is going to meet with us, amen?
So I'm going to pray for us. If you don't know Jesus, I pray you'd come to him today in salvation. If you do know the Lord, I pray you would come and you would grab some cards.
We'll make them available at the door at the end if you don't want to come forward. But maybe you do come, you grab a card or two.
Take just a moment and pray that when you invite, that those hearts would be receptive, amen?
Aren't you glad today that the door of salvation is wide open for whosoever will just come, just come to Jesus?
Let's pray.
Father God, we thank you for your word, Lord. Father, this story, Lord, this upside-down moment where this thief at the very last minute, God, he understands.
He understands he's a sinner, he sees Jesus as Savior, he sees Jesus as the way. Father, Lord, life is brief and eternity is forever.
And so God, today, Lord, for anyone watching, for anyone here who doesn't yet know you, God, would you help them, Lord, today to see for themselves what the believing thief saw on that day?
Father, move in our midst as we sing this song, Lord. Thank you for this testimony, this dying thief who rejoiced to see that salvation is available in Jesus to anyone who will just come to the fountain.
As you pray in Jesus' name, amen.
Cards are available, altars open for prayer. I'd love to help you get connected with Christ today. Would you stand?
How's God moving today in our midst?
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