κήρυξον τὸν λόγον

We’ve heard many sounds during this season of Lent ... ripping cloth, chiming coins, crying tears, tramping feet, a rooster’s crow, shouting mobs, and sloshing water. Now tonight ... THE SOUNDS OF THE PASSION HIT HARD WITH THE POUNDING OF THE HAMMER 2. After flogging him, the soldiers led Jesus out of the city. They marched him past the shouting mob out for blood ... down the Via Delorossa ... through the city gates ... to a lonely hill just east of the temple. The people called that place Golgotha, which means “the place of the skull” ... the place of death and destruction. They didn’t think there was any way to come back from that. Coming to the hill, the soldiers stripped Jesus naked for the last time, yet one more way to humiliate him. They laid his bloody body down on the cross and stretched out his arms like a lamb being sacrificed. Then a soldier approached with a leather bag filled with heavy spikes and a hammer. Three would do the job ... one for each wrist and one for the fee...