{"id":587,"date":"2007-04-08T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T01:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/?p=587"},"modified":"2007-04-08T20:50:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T01:50:04","slug":"the-humiliation-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/the-humiliation-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"The Humiliation of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death is humiliating. It doesn&#8217;t seem like that nowadays  when we go to music-filled funeral halls in suits to gather around the dearly  departed. There the person lays, sometimes wearing perfume for the first time  ever, seemingly asleep and no odor escaping their preserved body. The perfectly  ironed suit, the cushioned coffin, the gilded gold and the deep cherry wood\u00e2\u20ac\u201dall  of it looks rather royal, presidential even. But somebody else washed that  corpse, carted it around, ensured that it wouldn&#8217;t stink then propped it up for  people to see: humiliating.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOh, we all know about the humiliations Jesus suffered before  the cross: the beatings, the spittings, the ripping out His beard and the crown  of thorns. We know about the humiliations on the cross: naked, battered,  laughed at, given a foul concoction to try to drink. But we don&#8217;t often think  about the humiliation at his death.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s a Sabbath high day and the Jews don&#8217;t want the crucified bodies  spoiling their feast; so they want the crucified men to be killed and carted  away like trash.<\/li>\n<li>The soldiers came and broke the legs of two of the crucified  knowing it would speed up the death but the final man was already a corpse; no  need to break a corpse&#8217;s legs\u00e2\u20ac\u201djust stab the thing to make sure it&#8217;s truly done.<\/li>\n<li>They take a spear, shove it upwards through the ribcage  towards the heart and all the bodily fluids gush out; it&#8217;s just a chore.<\/li>\n<li>Joseph of Arimathea, a secret disciple of Jesus has to get  permission to get the corpse: it has no power over Romans but it&#8217;s a chore.  With permission granted he takes the body away.<\/li>\n<li>Nicodemus, the man who came to Jesus in secret (at night)  brings a costly amount of perfume but for what? To slather on the body so that  it&#8217;s stink isn&#8217;t overwhelming and to show how much he estimated the man. Sure  they laid him in a rich man&#8217;s burial ground but that just means there were a  lot of corpses around with little use for money.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Humiliating. Jesus, the descendant of David who preached the  impending Kingdom   of God, who performed  miracles, was just a corpse with secret friends rushing off to get the job done  before the festival started.<\/p>\n<p>But unlike any corpse in history this one wasn&#8217;t rotting. Peter  points out that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153God refused to let this corpse suffer the corruption and the  rot but he turned around those processes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the man was resurrected!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That&#8217;s  in Acts 2.<\/p>\n<p>Paul explains the nature of resurrection. One star  is brighter than another, and the flesh of animals are different from each  other\u00e2\u20ac\u201din that way the resurrected body is similar to the rotting body but very  different. The corpse rots but it comes up incapable of rotting; the corpse is  planted in dishonor and humiliation but it&#8217;s raised in glory; it&#8217;s buried in  weakness but raised in power\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbecause it is buried as a natural body and raised  as a spiritual body.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>This Jesus who was buried was a corpse in weakness but was  proved to be the Son of God with power by the resurrection of the dead. How so?<\/p>\n<p>I want people to get this point: Why was the stone blocking  the tomb&#8217;s entrance rolled away? Think about it. This same Jesus who made the  lame to walk, caused the blind to see, who walked on water\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddid He need to have  the stone pushed aside to get out?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>The stone was rolled away to show that a man was buried  there and the linen sheets attested to that. The stone was rolled away to show  that the man was gone, the face covering put to the side with the likeness of a  person waking up and removing the obstruction. The stone was rolled away to  show the emptiness of the tomb to whoever wanted to see.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, in light of this resurrection, laughs \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Grave where is  your victory\u00e2\u20ac\u201dDeath where is your sting?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The stone is gone because it&#8217;s the first revolving door to  the grave. Jesus Christ died, a man, died\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthen got back up. Death, unable to  stop Him, was left humiliated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death is humiliating. 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