Bondman

PRACTICAL NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANITY

MESSAGE #33


EASTER...

He hung on a cruel Roman cross. Bruised and bloodied: in agony beyond our comprehension: because this was 'un-worldly' - NOT totally of this world! Blood - without which NO sin can ever be forgiven - was everywhere. His blood from His flayed back, from where the thorns were pushed into His head, from His hands, from His feet.

With His Father always, never separated from Him for all of eternity, NOW JESUS WAS!! - HE WAS ABSOLUTELY AND UTTERLY ALONE!!! From His parched lips came a loud cry of the deepest possible anguish ever from the mouth of any man:

Matthew Ch 27
46 My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me!

Why was this? Heaven's King, Heaven's Lord, Son of the Most High... was SEPARATED from His Father??

He was paying a horrendously deadly price that we can only get a small glimpse of while here on earth, i.e., paying the price it took FOR US TO BE SAVED FROM AN ETERNITY IN HELL. HE WAS EXPERIENCING THE HELL WE DESERVE - IN YOUR PLACE AND MINE.

This un-worldy event, though taking place on earth for all to see, had been foretold centuries before in Isaiah:

Isaiah Ch 53
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

All your sin, all my sin, everyone's sin, the Father placed upon Jesus! Man, oh, man!!! The Father turned His back on His beloved Son, and Jesus experienced all the punishment of sin right there on the cross, and the full horrors of HELL and total separation from God - all for you and all for me!

THAT'S LOVE!!! Love like never seen before or since. And so to one of His last words from the cross - this time a cry of absolute TRIUMPH:

John Ch 19
30 It is finished!

And He bowed His beautiful bloodied head and died. HE HAD DONE IT!!! DONE WHAT HE CAME TO EARTH TO DO! PAID THE FULL PRICE FOR ALL OUR SIN - SO WE COULD BE SAVED!

The third day He rose from the dead, proving to the world that the Father had accepted His sacrifice on our behalf, and then ascended to the Father to sit at God's right hand until His return.



Have you FULLY accepted what Jesus sacrifice for you means? Have you grasped the enormity of this? Have you seen His utterly, totally, completely selfless LOVE - just for YOU?

AND HAVE YOU RESPONDED TO THIS LOVE THE ONLY WAY POSSIBLE TO DO SO:







Wishing all of Jesus' astonishing LOVE for you this Eastertime!

- BM and his Lady

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