DEATH DECLARED

Have you thanked Him?

Have you praised Him?

Have you made it your priority to agree and cooperate with Him today?

Have you taken that deep breath and listened for what He has for you today?

 

1 Timothy 2:1 (The Message)

^1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.

 

1 Corinthians 4:26

(declare) the Lord’s death, which is the ultimate expression of His faithfulness and love, until He comes again.

 

Isaiah 53:4-6

...it was OUR grief he bore, OUR sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, for his own sins! But he was wounded and bruised for OUR sins. He was beaten that WE might have peace; he was lashed—and WE were healed! WE—every one of us—have strayed away like sheep! WE, who left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet God laid on him the guilt and sins of every one of US!

 

Six hours, one Friday.

Mundane to the casual observer.

A shepherd with his sheep, a housewife with her thoughts, a doctor with his patients.

 

But to a handful of awestruck witnesses, the most maddening of miracles is occurring. God is on a cross. The creator of the universe is being executed.

 

It is no normal six hours. It is no normal Friday. Far worse than the breaking of his body is the shredding of his heart.

 

And now his own father is beginning to turn his back on him, leaving him alone. What do you do with that day in history? What do you do with its claims? They were the most critical hours in history.

 

Nails didn’t hold GOD to a cross. Love did.

Nails didn’t hold GOD to a CROSS. LOVE DID!

 

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint! - Max Lucado

 

2 Corinthians 5:21

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

 

Enough said.

All be blessed this GOOD FRIDAY.

 

I love you all!

And Happy Easter…

Freedom Church