Redemption Hill Church

Redemption Hill Church

Redemption Hill Church located in Cartersville, Georgia, is an expository-preaching church dedicated to making disciples. Here, you can listen to each Sunday's message. Website: https://www.rhccartersville.com/

  1. Jul 20

    Mark 15: 1-15 - An Innocent King, A Guilty People

    In Mark 15:1–15, Jesus stands before Pilate as the innocent King, falsely accused by the religious leaders and condemned by the Roman governor. Although the Jewish leaders reject Him because He is not the kind of king they wanted, and Pilate knows Jesus is innocent, both choose self-interest over truth. Throughout the trial, Jesus remains remarkably silent, fulfilling God's sovereign plan and the prophecy of Isaiah 53. Rather than defending Himself, He willingly submits to the Father's will, demonstrating that He is always in control, even as He is being condemned. The passage highlights three guilty parties: the religious leaders who reject Jesus' authority, Pilate who compromises truth to satisfy the crowd, and Barabbas, the guilty criminal who is set free while Jesus takes his place. Together they reveal that every person is represented in this story. Like the religious leaders, we often reject Jesus' rule over our lives. Like Pilate, we compromise obedience for comfort, approval, or self-preservation. And like Barabbas, we are guilty sinners deserving judgment but are offered freedom because Christ takes our place. The heart of the gospel is found in this great exchange: the innocent King was condemned so that guilty people could be set free. Jesus willingly bore the punishment sinners deserved so they could receive the acceptance, forgiveness, and life that only He deserved. The proper response is to repent, believe the gospel, submit to Jesus as both Savior and King, and continually rest in the finished work of Christ rather than trying to earn God's favor through our own efforts.

  2. Jun 28

    Mark 14:53-65 - Many False, One True

    Mark places Jesus' trial before the Sanhedrin between two betrayals — Judas before it, Peter denying him during it — so that the Lord stands surrounded by false witnesses while being the one true and faithful witness in the room. The whole Gospel has been building to a single question: who is this man? The religious leaders convene an illegal, predetermined trial, but their fabricated testimony collapses (you can't get your story straight about something that didn't happen). With the case falling apart, the high priest finally asks Jesus directly whether he is the Christ, the Son of the Blessed — titles that, by themselves, no one was executed for. Then Jesus does something staggering. He answers "I am," and fuses two Scriptures — Psalm 110:1 (seated at God's right hand) and Daniel 7:13 (coming on the clouds) — into an unmistakable claim to deity: he shares God's throne and will return as Judge. This is the moment the secret breaks, publicly, in his own voice. And he does it on purpose. He had every escape; instead he welds the charge together "from the inside," building his own coffin, so that he could be condemned and go to the cross to save his people (John 10:18 — no one takes his life; he lays it down). The court that thinks it is judging him will one day stand before him: he tells Caiaphas, in effect, you will see me again — but next time you are on trial and I am the witness. He is coming, and on that day everyone will know he is the LORD — some with wild eyes of terror, some with wild eyes of joy, looking on the face of the Redeemer whose nail-pierced hands hold their names.

    Mark 14:53-65 - Many False, One True

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Redemption Hill Church located in Cartersville, Georgia, is an expository-preaching church dedicated to making disciples. Here, you can listen to each Sunday's message. Website: https://www.rhccartersville.com/