1. Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth!

2. Being thankful… …for the price of gasoline.

3. Christ Before Pilate John 19:11-22

4. “Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.” - Hebrews 12:3

5. Christ Before Pilate John 19:11-22

8. When Pilate heard this…

9. “The fear of man will prove to be a snare; but whoever trusts in the LORD is kept safe.” - Proverbs 29:25

10. "How can you believe if you accept praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from the only God?" - John 5:44

11. What God thinks about you, His child:  "Therefore as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved..." - Colossians 3:12  "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation..." - II Corinthians 5:17  "...so that in Him, we might become the righteousness of God...” - II Corinthians 5:21

13. “He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.” - Isaiah 53:3

15. 1,000 years earlier… 4. So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. 5. They said to him, "You are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways; now appoint a king to lead us, such as all the other nations have." 6. But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. 7. And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their King. - I Samuel 8

16. "Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot in vain? The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against His Anointed One. "Let us break their chains," they say, "and throw off their fetters." - Psalm 2:1-3

17. “No king but Caesar!”

18. Jesus is King

20. Why three languages? Aramaic: the spoken language of the people of Israel. Latin: the official legal language of the Roman Empire Greek: the official trade language of science, philosophy, and culture of the Roman Empire

22. “They have pierced my hands and my feet” - Psalm 22:18

23. "He poured out His life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors.” - Isaiah 53:12

24. “They did what Your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.” - Acts 4:27-28

25. Your sin doesn’t surprise God.

26. Other people’s sin doesn‘t surprise God.

27. Christ has taken care of sin on the cross, completely.

28. God will take all sin and use it for our final good, and His glory.