“Crossing over with Christ”

(John 18:1) When Jesus had

spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over

the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which

he entered, and his disciples.

I. The PROVOKING at the Kidron

A.The CONTENT at the Brook

KidronA place where destroyed

idols and the bodies of the rebellious were crushed and burned.

2 Kings 23:4 – “And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the

second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all

the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he

burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of

Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.”

2 Kings 23:6 – “And he brought out the grove from

the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it

small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children

of the people.”

2 Kings 23:12 - “And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the

altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did

the king beat down, and brake them down from

thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook

Kidron.”

A.The CONTENT at the Brook

B.The CLEANSING at the Brook

KidronA place where destroyed

idols and the bodies of the rebellious were crushed and burned.

It ran past the place where sacrifices were offered.

• Its contents would have be BLOOD

• The 1st century historian Josephus records that during one Passover, over 250,000 sacrifices were offered in the temple in Jerusalem.

• The blood of those animals would have been channeled beyond the walls into the brook

• The brook would have been flowing with a river of BLOOD.

What would’ve went through his mind as he look down?

(Gen 3:21) Unto Adam also and to his

wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.

(Gen 22:8) And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them

together.

(Exo 12:3) Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel,

saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according

to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

A.The CONTENT at the Brook

B.The CLEANSING at the Brook

C.The COURSE of the Brook

KidronA place where destroyed

idols and the bodies of the rebellious were crushed and burned.

It ran past the place where sacrifices were offered.

It went through the wilderness of the scapegoat

Leviticus 16:7-8 – “And he shall take the two goats, and

present them before the LORD at the

door of the tabernacle of the

congregation. And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats;

one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the

scapegoat.”

(Lev 16:21-22) And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head

of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit

man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all

their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

(Isa 53:6) All we like sheep have gone astray;

we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us

all.

(2Co 5:21) For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the

righteousness of God in him.

“Scapegoat” (Hebrew-azazel)“to remove” or “go away”

“removed and gone away goat”

(Psa 103:12) As far as the east is from

the west, so far hath he removed

our transgressions from us.

A.The CONTENT at the Brook

B.The CLEANSING at the Brook

C.The COURSE of the Brook

D.The CEASING of the Brook

KidronA place where destroyed

idols and the bodies of the rebellious were crushed and burned.

It ran past the place where sacrifices were offered.

It went through the wilderness of the scapegoat

Into the Dead Sea.

(Mic 7:19) He will turn again, he will have

compassion upon us; he will subdue our

iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

I. The PROVOKING at the Kidron

II. The PICTURES at the Mt. of Olives

A.The CONNECTION of the Mountain

Mount of Olives1st mention 2nd Sam. 17

David, the rejected king, leaves Jerusalem, and with his faithful men he crosses the Brook Kidron and goes weeping up to the mount.

Meanwhile, his former friend and counselor Ahithophel betrays him to Absalom and soon hangs himself.

(2Sa 17:1-2) Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:

And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will

make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite

the king only:

(2Sa 17:23) And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not

followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home to his house, to his city, and put his

household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried

in the sepulchre of his father.

A.The CONNECTION of the Mountain

B. The CRUSHING on the Mountain

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Leviticus 24:2 “Command the children

of Israel, that they bring unto thee

pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to

burn continually.”

                                                  

                        

(Isa 53:3-5) He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him;

he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet

we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our

transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the

chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes

we are healed.

A.The CONNECTION of the Mountain

B. The CRUSHING on the Mountain

C.The CRYING on the Mountain

(Luk 22:44) And being in an agony he prayed more

earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling

down to the ground.

(Mar 14:34-35) And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding

sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might

pass from him.

A.The CONNECTION of the Mountain

B. The CRUSHING on the Mountain

C.The CRYING on the Mountain

D. The CONQUERING on the Mountain

(Acts 1:11-12) Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing

up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into

heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven. Then returned they unto Jerusalem

from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day's

journey.”

Zechariah 14:4 – “And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of

Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and

the mount of Olives shall

cleave in the midst thereof

toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very

great valley; and half of the

mountain shall remove toward the north, and

half of it toward the south.”

Zech. 14:1-8

Ezek. 47:1-12

(Joh 19:34) But one of the soldiers

with a spear pierced his side,

and forthwith came there out

blood and water.