This is Easter Sunday is a time to celebrate the Resurrection of the Lord from the grave and Luke gives us an account of what happen Luke 23:1-26 23 Then the whole multitude of them arose and led Him to Pilate. ² And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

³ Then Pilate asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

He answered him and said, “It is as you say.”

⁴ So Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowd, “I find no fault in this Man.”

⁵ But they were the more fierce, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee to this place.”

⁶ When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked if the Man were a Galilean. ⁷ And as soon as he knew that He belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who was also in Jerusalem at that time. ⁸ Now when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceedingly glad; for he had desired for a long time to see Him, because he had heard many things about Him, and he hoped to see some miracle done by Him. ⁹ Then he questioned Him with many words, but He answered him nothing. ¹⁰ And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused Him. ¹¹ Then Herod, with his men of war, treated Him with contempt and mocked Him, arrayed Him in a gorgeous robe, and sent Him back to Pilate. ¹² That very day Pilate and Herod became friends with each other, for previously they had been at enmity with each other.

¹³ Then Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests, the rulers, and the people, ¹⁴ said to them, “You have brought this Man to me, as one who misleads the people. And indeed, having examined Him in your presence, I have found no fault in this Man concerning those things of which you accuse Him; ¹⁵ no, neither did Herod, for I sent you back to him; and indeed nothing deserving of death has been done by Him. ¹⁶ I will therefore chastise Him and release Him” ¹⁷ (for it was necessary for him to release one to them at the feast).

¹⁸ And they all cried out at once, saying, “Away with this Man, and release to us Barabbas”— ¹⁹ who had been thrown into prison for a certain rebellion made in the city, and for murder.

²⁰ Pilate, therefore, wishing to release Jesus, again called out to them. ²¹ But they shouted, saying, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!”

²² Then he said to them the third time, “Why, what evil has He done? I have found no reason for death in Him. I will therefore chastise Him and let Him go.”

²³ But they were insistent, demanding with loud voices that He be crucified. And the voices of these men and of the chief priests prevailed. ²⁴ So Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they requested. ²⁵ And he released to them the one they requested, who for rebellion and murder had been thrown into prison; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

 

 ²⁷ And a great multitude of the people followed Him, and women who also mourned and lamented Him. ²⁸ But Jesus, turning to them, said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for Me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.²⁹ For indeed the days are coming in which they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, wombs that never bore, and breasts which never nursed!’ ³⁰ Then they will begin‘to say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!” ’ ³¹ For if they do these things in the green wood, what will be done in the dry?”  

Sap is a tree's lifeblood; it carries the required nutrition from the roots out to the far ends of the branches and leaves. When wood is cut from the tree, the sap no longer runs as it did in the living wood so becomes dry wood. Thank the Lord He proved who He was, as He is between two other malefactors one on the right and the other the left. Notice what happened to one of the men on the cross in Luke 23:39 Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, ^[j]“If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us.”

⁴⁰ But the other, answering, rebuked him, saying, “Do you not even fear God, seeing you are under the same condemnation? ⁴¹ And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong.” ⁴² Then he said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom.”

⁴³ And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.”

Here we are alive to what is going on as we abide in the vine; Jesus for as long as we have life we have to remember who we are and what God wants to give us as we resist Satan and cling to the old rugged cross. 
We have admitted we are sinners and need to be saved for we are powerless in ourselves to resist sin, yet God can forgive and forget and gives us the ability to start living now for him is the first step we take as a new born child in the Kingdom of God. So the second step is realizing God can restore us to sanity as we continue to have faith now in God and not things. Now we are realizing we are in a battle and it is not against one another, or things, but against the enemy of our souls Satan. We do not need to fear him but fear Gods love mercy and grace so we want to please our Creator God. So, the third step is being aware of Gods Holy Spirit to empower us as we abide in Him for now we are walking in the way, truth and life that is found in the Bible as we continue to turn all our problems over to the Lord. Now it’s a daily walking communicating with the Lord and doing His will. This happens as I remember I have to search my heart daily for sins that are able to destroy. What I do now is practice number four making a searching and fearless inventory of what I am doing to please and obey the Lord, this now is a way of life me now as I am walking and talking with the Lord about my needs, not my wants. Number 5 is admitting to myself my need of needing help in my wrong behaviors and attitudes on a daily bases for I am walking in and out of trouble all the time and the joy of the Lord is needed 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Number 6 is needing the Lords help all the time so these defects of sin do not destroy my relationship with God and others.