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St Gabriel Men's Retreat 2022 - Entering the Tomb
Retiro de hombres de San Gabriel 2022 - Entrando a la tumba

MESSAGE OUTLINE

Date: May 20, 2022

Location: Prince of Peace Abbey

Title: Entering the Tomb
RESURRECTION
Our New Lives of Faith, Family and Friendship in a Post Covid World

Scripture: JN 15:12-17

Passion to Tomb to Resurrection

Gospel. Jn 15:12-17

Jesus said to his disciples:“This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.No one has greater love than this,to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.You are my friends if you do what I command you.I no longer call you slaves,because a slave does not know what his master is doing.I have called you friends,because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father.It was not you who chose me, but I who chose youand appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain,so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.This I command you: love one another.”

The First Word: - Forgive
“Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they’re doing.” (Luke 23:34)

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.
So, love the people who treat you right.
forgive the ones who don’t
and believe that everything happens for a reason.
If you get the chance, take it.
If it changes your life, let it.
Nobody said it would be easy,
they just promised it would be worth it.
-Dr Seuss

The Second Word: - Hope
“I assure you, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:43)

The Third Word: - Family
“Dear woman, here is your son.” (John 19:26)

The Fourth Word: - Loneliness
“My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” (Mark 15:34)

The Fifth Word: - Thirst
“I am thirsty.” (John 19:28)
During the approximately six hours Jesus Christ hung on the cross, our Lord spoke seven final statements. One of those statements is recorded in John 19:28: “Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, ‘I am thirsty.’”

The apostle John links Jesus’ statement “I thirst” to the fulfillment of Scripture. There were, in fact, at least twenty Old Testament prophecies fulfilled during the twenty-four hours surrounding the Lord’s death. By highlighting how Old Testament Scriptures were fulfilled throughout Jesus’ crucifixion, John showed that everything was happening according to God’s plan.

When Jesus said, “I thirst,” from the cross, He was alluding to a prophecy in Psalm 22:15: “My mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death.” The apostle John had cited this same psalm earlier regarding the dividing of Jesus’ garments among the Roman soldiers (John 19:23).

In response to Jesus’ request for something to drink, the soldiers offer Him wine vinegar: “A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips” (John 19:29). Wine vinegar was the cheapest and easiest wine for soldiers to acquire. It was probably diluted with water.

Earlier, Jesus refused a drink of vinegar, gall, and myrrh offered to Him to relieve His suffering (Matthew 27:34 and Mark 15:23). After that, the soldiers mockingly offered Him wine vinegar but did not allow Him to drink (Luke 23:36). But here, several hours later, Jesus states, “I am thirsty,” thus asking for a drink. This time, the soldiers give Him some. This action was a fulfillment of Psalm 69:21: “They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst.”

Immediately after receiving the drink, Jesus says, “It is finished,” and then bows His head and gave up His spirit (John 19:30). There is another, very practical reason Jesus says, “I thirst,” from the cross. The Lord asks for a drink so that He might clearly and powerfully declare His final statement, “It is finished.”

The Sixth Word: - Letting Go
“It is finished!” (John 19:30)

The Seventh Word: - Trust
“Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” (Luke 23:46)

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