In This Sermon:
✝️ Jesus could have died by stoning, beheading, or old age. So why the cross? Pastor Jacob Van Sickle looks at Jesus before Pilate and walks through six reasons God ordained crucifixion as the way His Son would die, from fulfilled prophecy to the defeat of the curse of the law.
🔑 In this sermon you’ll learn:
📜 How the cross fulfilled what Jesus and the prophets (Isaiah and the Psalms) said would happen
👁️ Why Jesus’s death had to be public, and what Athanasius said about it 1,700 years ago
🤲 Why the cross had to come at the hands of others, not by Jesus’s own contrivance
🐍 How the cross is symbolically rich, from the bronze serpent in the wilderness to Jesus’s outstretched arms
⚖️ How Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us
🌳 How the tree of the cross answers the tree in the Garden of Eden
📍 Sacred City Church is a church plant in Providence, RI, reaching college students, young adults, and young families with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
🕊️ Join us Sundays in Providence, RI — new here? We'd love to meet you!
⛪ Services: 9am & 11am at 10 Greene Street, Providence, RI
🌐 Website: sacredcity.church
📱 Instagram: @sacredcitypvd
💬 Get connected: hi@sacredcity.church (mailto:hi@sacredcity.church)
For Further Study:
• Holy Week Timeline
• Theater of Pompey
• On the Incarnation by Athanasius
• "Freedom!” Braveheart (not endorsement)
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