Yes, today is Good Friday. The day that Jesus was brutally crucified. History records many people were crucified as a form of the death penalty for their crime.It struck me! Then what was the big deal about Jesus being crucified, beaten, and abused beyond physical recognition. Like one of those scary moments in a movie that catches you totally off guard and you kind of jump in your seat and your heart momentarily races; it hit me. It was not just the crucifixion of Jesus that was so bad (it was worse than we even imagine).
It was the simple fact that they crucified and INNOCENT MAN.
Pilate said it, Matt 27:23 "Why?" Pilate demanded. "What crime has he committed?"
Thief on the cross, Luke 23:41 41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this Man has done nothing wrong."
Roman officer, Luke 23:47 47 When the Roman officer overseeing the execution saw what had happened, he worshiped God and said, "Surely this man was innocent."
Heb 4:15 15 This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.
The spotless and perfect LAMB OF GOD was wrongfully murdered.
How depressing this must have been to His followers who had such high hopes of cultural change. SILENT SATURDAY . . . . we do not have much information about what went down on Saturday.
Yes, the saying is true, "IT IS FRIDAY BUT SUNDAY IS COMING." We win on RESURRECTION DAY!!
Satan must have come unglued to realize that actually in all of his plotting and scheming he was outsmarted and totally defeated forever. He even used the religious people of the day as the ring leaders. Matt 26:57 Then the people who had arrested Jesus led him to the home of Caiaphas, the high priest, where the teachers of religious law and the elders had gathered.
But he could not make his trumped up charges stick in the courts of heaven because this was God the Fathers plan to rescue the world from sin and separation. In the final analysis of the whole event nobody even killed Jesus . . . John 19:30 "It is finished!" Then he bowed his head and released his spirit. He literally laid His life down. It was not taken from Him by some religious leader, Roman Soldier, or even Satan.
John 3:16 16 "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
This is the point of Easter!!! We can not comprehend this kind of love but we can receive it and live in it and enjoy the benefits of it.
Jesus Loves You!!
Ed
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