🔊The most significant event in history occurred when our Savior, Jesus Christ, triumphantly declared, "IT IS FINISHED!" In that instant, our salvation, redemption, and eternal lives are now fully complete and secured in Christ FOREVER! He took our place, shed His blood for us, died, rose from the grave, and is coming back for His Church!
🔥We were all sinners, facing death, staring down an eternity in the pits of hell. But then, right at this very moment when our names are called to die, He steps into our lives, into the very depths of our despair, and takes our place. He dies instead of us, offering us a lifeline to eternal salvation. He sacrificed His life to save us, and now we stare at eternity in heaven with Him.
⚠️ We need to know and fully understand what He went through—otherwise, we will never grasp the depth, height, and length of His love for us! This is the work of His love, He went to the cross to pay for our sins to grant us eternal life.
🩸 The night before He was crucified, He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. His sweat fell to the ground like drops of blood, a manifestation of His intense anguish. As God, Jesus was fully aware of everything that would happen to Him.
🩸 He experienced the pain of knowing that one of His very own disciples would betray Him, another would deny Him, and others would abandon Him.
🩸 He knew that many who had once called Him "The Messiah" would now be screaming for His crucifixion and mocking Him.
🩸 He knew that He would be beaten nearly to the point of death with a special whip that had sharp objects, causing deep lacerations and massive blood loss, before they pounded the crown of thorns into His head, making a mockery of Him.
🩸 He knew the prophetic words of Isaiah spoken 700 years ago, that He would be beaten so severely that He would be "disfigured beyond human likeness."
👉🏼These things contributed to His great anguish and sorrow, causing Him to sweat drops of blood. However, there was more...
🩸He knew that He was going to be crucified. Crucifixion was considered the most painful and torturous method of execution ever devised. The wrists and feet were nailed to the cross, causing intense pain. The weight of His body would pull down on the chest, making breathing very difficult and leading to asphyxiation. The pain was so unbearable that a word was created to describe it—'excruciating'—which means 'from the cross.' It was a long and agonizing death.
🩸As our sinless Savior bore the weight of the world's sins on His shoulders and was being crucified, His Father must have looked away, for His "eyes are too pure to look on evil."
This caused Jesus to cry out, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"—which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" The pain of being abandoned by His Father far surpassed the intense physical pain the Lord endured on our behalf.
🩸He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and like a sheep before its shearers is silent. He bore all the sins of humanity, enduring both physical torture, emotional suffering, and spiritual abandonment.
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🔊 The cross was meant for us! The pain was meant for us to bear, the blood was meant for us to shed, and the sin was meant for us to die for! But Jesus endured it all to rescue us, to save us, to redeem us so that one day we could also be glorified with the Father and have eternal life with HIM.
He did it out of LOVE, for YOU and me!
📖 "So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "IT IS FINISHED! "And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit." John 19:30
🔊NOW, when God looks at the cross, He sees YOU,
And when He looks at YOU— He sees Christ! 💪🏼
🔊He was buried and resurrected on the third day, according to the Scriptures —and He is coming back for His Church to save us from the 7-year tribulation, which will be the most horrific time the world will ever see!
🔊It's time to come to Jesus and receive His unconditional love!
The moment you believe in Him and that He died for your sins - you're saved, justified, sealed until the day of redemption, and rapture ready!
The Holy Spirit will come to live inside of you - He will help you, guide you, change you, and be with you FOREVER!
COME TO JESUS, ACCEPT HIS LOVE, AND BE SAVED FROM ETERNAL DAMNATION IN HELL!
THIS LIFE WAS NOT MEANT FOR YOU TO LIVE WITHOUT HIM!!!
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