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MATTHEW 27: 27 - 56

THE THORN CROWNED KING 
(Where the thorns came from.

I. VIEWING WITH ADVANTAGE OF EXPERIENCE.
        A. They thought they understood all that was happening.
        B. We know we don't.

II. WHEN THEY HAD CRUCIFIED HIM.
        A. Who crucified Christ?
                1. Peter to Jews.
                        Jews to Peter - Seeing we have crucified the Lord
                        of Glory.
                2. The crucifixion guilt goes deeper.

Ill. T HE ATTITUDE OF GOD.
        A. The silence of God.
                1. He had spoken earlier.
        B. God's non-interference, yet.
                1. The darkness from the 6th to 9th hour.
                2. "My God, my God."
                3. The veil of temple.

IV. THE KING HIMSELF.
        A. "Father forgiven them."
        B. "It is finished."
                1. First recorded statement of Christ.
                        "wist ye not that I be about my Father's
                         business."

V. ATTITUDE OF HUMANITY.
        A. Soldiers making sport in palace.
                1. They viewed Him as weak.
        B. Religious in presence of cross.
                "He saved others, Himself He cannot save."
        C. The women.

The cross is the throne divides those on right and left.

Soldiers that gambled - Centurions "Truly this was the Son of God."

Pharisees.
Thieves.

"None of the ransomed ever knew how deep were the waters crossed nor how
dark was the night that the Lord passed through Ere He found His sheep
that was lost."