Good Friday 2022

River Valley Church

Good Friday 2022

Special Sermons

April 15, 2022 • Pastor Mark Moore

Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. 2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. 3 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.” 5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” 6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.” 7 The Jews[a] answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid. 9 He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?” 11 Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”

12 From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.” 13 So when Pilate heard these words, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judgment seat at a place called The Stone Pavement, and in Aramaic[b] Gabbatha. 14 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour.[c] He said to the Jews, “Behold your King!” 15 They cried out, “Away with him, away with him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar.” 16 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified.

The Crucifixion
So they took Jesus, 17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha. 18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them. 19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews.”

Baptism in the New Testament - Part 2

June 30, 2024 • Pastor Mark Moore • Matthew 28:18–19

18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%2028%3a18-19&version=esv;niv#fen-esv-24211a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

Baptism in the New Testament - Part 1

June 23, 2024 • Pastor Mark Moore • Matthew 3:1–12

Matthew 3:1-12 In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, 2 “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%203%3a1-12&version=esv#fen-esv-23195a] 3 For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew%203%3a1-12&version=esv#fen-esv-23196b] the way of the Lord; make his paths straight.’” 4 Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. 5 Then Jerusalem and all Judea and all the region about the Jordan were going out to him, 6 and they were baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?8 Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. 9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. 10 Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 11 “I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. 12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

Arjuna Chiguluri | Numbers 11:4-15

May 26, 2024 • Arjuna Chiguluri • Numbers 11:4–15

4 Now the https://www.esv.org/ex12.38rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And thepeople of Israel also https://www.esv.org/nm14.1wept again and said, https://www.esv.org/ps78.18%3bps106.14%3b1co10.6“Oh that we had meat to eat!5 https://www.esv.org/nm21.5%3bex16.3%3bac7.39We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers,the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. 6 But now our strength isdried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.” 7 Now https://www.esv.org/ex16.14%3bex16.31the manna was like coriander seed, and its appearance like that ofbdellium. 8 https://www.esv.org/ex16.16-18The people went about and gathered it and ground it inhandmills or beat it in mortars and boiled it in pots and made cakes of it.https://www.esv.org/ex16.31And the taste of it was like the taste of cakes baked with oil. 9 https://www.esv.org/ex16.13-14When thedew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna fell with it. 10 Moses heard the people https://www.esv.org/zc12.12-14weeping throughout their clans, everyone atthe door of his tent. And the anger of the LORD blazed hotly, and Moses wasdispleased. 11 https://www.esv.org/1k19.4%3bjon4.1-4%3bjon4.9Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you dealt ill with yourservant? And why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay theburden of all this people on me? 12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I givethem birth, that you should say to me, https://www.esv.org/is40.11%3bde1.31‘Carry them in your bosom, as ahttps://www.esv.org/is49.23%3b1th2.7nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land https://www.esv.org/gn50.24%3bex13.5that you swore to give theirfathers? 13 https://www.esv.org/2k7.2%3bmt15.33%3bmk8.4%3bjn6.7%3bjn6.9Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weepbefore me and say, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’ 14 https://www.esv.org/ex18.18%3bde1.9%3bde1.12I am not able to carryall this people alone; the burden is too heavy for me. 15 If you will treat melike this, kill me at once, if I find favor in your sight, that I may not see mywretchedness.”