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Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

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All right, guys, we made it to the end of the week, and all week I have been taking you on a journey to Golgotha. So I took you to Mount Moriah for the story of Abraham and Isaac, where God stopped Abraham from sacrificing Isaac and provided a substitutionary sacrifice in the form of an adult male lamb with his head stuck in a crown of thorns. Then we took you to the battle of Elah, where the teenage shepherd boy named David killed the giant Philistine Goliath, cut off his head with his own sword and took that head to Jerusalem and he buried it on a mountainside outside the city walls, the mountain Mount Moriah, the nickname for that mountain, golgotha, or the place of a skull. Now we need to fast forward about another thousand years or so so we've got a 30-year-old Jew from Bethlehem named Jesus, who started his public ministry. He began to perform signs and wonders that you know, wowed the crowds and infuriated the religious, governmental and cultural elites of his day, and over the next few years he gained a dedicated following of apostles and disciples. He claimed to be the Son of God, the Messiah for all mankind, and the Jewish elites just could not really let this perceived blasphemy stand right, so they enlisted the help of the Roman Empire to capture, condemn and murder Jesus. The Romans scourged him with a cat of nine tails and then delivered him to be crucified on a wooden cross. So let's actually pick the story up here in Mark 15, verse 22. And they brought him to the place called Golgotha, which means place of a skull, and it was the third hour when they crucified him, and the inscription of the charge against him read the king of the Jews.

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Now, verse 33. And when the sixth hour had come and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, and at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, which means my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Verse 37,. And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. Then Jesus was taken down from the cross and was placed in a tomb.

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And, guys, we kind of know at this point that, you know, a stone was rolled onto the opening of the tomb and that was really supposed to be the end of the story, right? But let's go to Matthew 28, and we'll start in verse 1. Now, after the Sabbath, sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb and behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning and his clothing white as snow and for fear of him, the guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to the woman do not be afraid men. But the angel said to the woman do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who is crucified, but he is not here, for he is risen, as he said, arrested, scourged, condemned, crucified, resurrected. And, guys, if we go all the way back to Genesis three, verse 15, you know God is talking to Satan, the serpent. This is after the fall and says this I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring. He shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel. So in this moment, jesus crushed Golgotha, the place of the skull and the head of the serpent. So we've been working on this all week.

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So let's put this all together and we're going to do that by looking at three things One, substitutionary atonement. Two, the defeat of the enemies of God. And three Jesus conquering the grave. So, number one substitutionary atonement. So God called Abraham to sacrifice his son on Mount Moriah. But then God provided a substitutionary sacrifice in the form of an adult male lamb with its head stuck in a crown of thorns. So this prefigures God offering his one and only son, jesus, as a substitutionary payment for the sins of all humanity.

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Number two the defeat of the enemies of God. So David of the tribe of Judah kills Goliath, the great enemy of God. Then he takes Goliath's decapitated head and buries it on Mount Moriah and it became known as Golgotha. And who is in the genealogical line of David? Jesus, who became the lion of the tribe of Judah. And then, number three Jesus conquering the grave. David killing Goliath foreshadows God through Christ defeating sin, and death at Golgotha foreshadows God through Christ defeating sin and death. At Golgotha, jesus, with his own crown of thorns on his head, was sacrificed to pay the sin debt of humanity forever and in full.

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So that's pretty awesome, right, you know? I mean the biblical canon has so many points of crossover and reference, so it's cool to connect some of the dots to make a powerful narrative right over in reference. So it's cool to connect some of the dots to make a powerful narrative right. But how does this apply to you? Well, when Jesus died on the cross at Golgotha, at Calvary, that counted for you. And if you believe and transfer your faith to that reality the reality that when Jesus died on the cross, that it somehow counted for you then you can be saved. So if you have not previously done so, I am compelling you right now to repent of your life of sin and believe in Jesus. And if you have already done that, then I think it's time you start telling some people about it. All right, guys, thank you for your attention this week. Stay sharp.

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