Sermons on Substitute

Showdown at the Cross Introduction:  During Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness, Satan tempted him to accept glory without suffering.  Any one of us would have caved at that choice, but Jesus didn’t.  In saying no to Satan, Jesus chose to live for the day of his death.  He chose to accept a crown only after carrying a cross. At one point, Luke records that “Jesus took the twelve aside and told them, ‘We are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written…