The idea of a time machine has fascinated many. Although theologically bankrupt, the ability to be transported back in time and see and experience monumental moments in the history of the world is something many would love to do.

But knowing this can never happen, unless God chooses in heaven to give us glimpses of things we wish we had seen during our life in this phase of our existence, the next best thing is to listen to the people who were there. Eyewitness accounts, first person accounts of tremendous moments in history, is our only way to go back in time and to experience those moments.

In the case of biblical narratives we not only meet with eyewitness accounts of the events that we study, we meet with a divine account, an inerrant account, of what really happened. In this sermon, the Holy Spirit takes us to the place of the crucifixion and we watch Jesus die.