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Each year, the saints celebrate this week of Christ’s Passion as a way of remembering the great price that was paid for our sins.
And though we commemorate a week that represents the betrayal, arrest, torture, crucifixion, and death Christ willingly endured, we don’t sorrow as those who have no hope. You see, we also celebrate how God raised Him from the dead, proving His death was totally sufficient to eternally save all who truly trusts in Him.
Andrew Murray said, “A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.” This is a most profound truth that completely distinguishes true Christianity from all religions. People insist that they have to do something to be good enough to be saved. But that is the ultimate insult to a God who gave His Son’s life, and a God who made it clear that His Son is the only way to be saved!
Jesus Christ is risen from a cruel death that He died for sinners—but not for all sinners! Sadly, some just will never accept having a relationship with God on His terms.
I recently heard someone ask a question that is so ridiculous that I won’t even give them credit by mentioning their name. It is the basis of what I would like to discuss this Palm Sunday. The question is, “How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?”
Well, I have an answer for that person and for anyone else who even remotely thinks this way. And believe me, more people think this way than you even realize.
The title of this two part Passion Week series is “A Dying Son. A Rising Savior”
Wow! What a question. I’m sure that to the person who asked it, and to many who agree with it, this is deeply profound, and somehow worth its weight in rhetoric. Forgive my sarcasm, but it never ceases to amaze me the things Satan, who knows he has a short time, will try to fill people’s heads with.
“How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’” they ask? Here’s how.
I’ll give this question some serious consideration, not because of how easily misunderstood the Bible can be by people who have no relationship with the God of it, but because of the many Bible illiterate babes in Christ who should by now be teachers... To give you an idea of perhaps where this question comes from, we look to John 10:17-18 where Jesus says, “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
So I can understand why someone on the outside of that conversation would question whether or not this was the ultimate sacrifice. I mean, Jesus says it right there. “I have power to lay [My life] down, and I have power to take it again.”
This is what Jesus arrived in Bethany (which by the way means “house of misery”) six days before the Passover to prepare to do. He voluntarily came to the final week of His perfect life to be cruelly mistreated and tortured for something He didn’t do...
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By Keith L. BellEach year, the saints celebrate this week of Christ’s Passion as a way of remembering the great price that was paid for our sins.
And though we commemorate a week that represents the betrayal, arrest, torture, crucifixion, and death Christ willingly endured, we don’t sorrow as those who have no hope. You see, we also celebrate how God raised Him from the dead, proving His death was totally sufficient to eternally save all who truly trusts in Him.
Andrew Murray said, “A dead Christ I must do everything for; a living Christ does everything for me.” This is a most profound truth that completely distinguishes true Christianity from all religions. People insist that they have to do something to be good enough to be saved. But that is the ultimate insult to a God who gave His Son’s life, and a God who made it clear that His Son is the only way to be saved!
Jesus Christ is risen from a cruel death that He died for sinners—but not for all sinners! Sadly, some just will never accept having a relationship with God on His terms.
I recently heard someone ask a question that is so ridiculous that I won’t even give them credit by mentioning their name. It is the basis of what I would like to discuss this Palm Sunday. The question is, “How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the 'Ultimate Sacrifice'?”
Well, I have an answer for that person and for anyone else who even remotely thinks this way. And believe me, more people think this way than you even realize.
The title of this two part Passion Week series is “A Dying Son. A Rising Savior”
Wow! What a question. I’m sure that to the person who asked it, and to many who agree with it, this is deeply profound, and somehow worth its weight in rhetoric. Forgive my sarcasm, but it never ceases to amaze me the things Satan, who knows he has a short time, will try to fill people’s heads with.
“How do you give something away with the knowledge that you will get it back in three days, and then claim it to be the ‘Ultimate Sacrifice’” they ask? Here’s how.
I’ll give this question some serious consideration, not because of how easily misunderstood the Bible can be by people who have no relationship with the God of it, but because of the many Bible illiterate babes in Christ who should by now be teachers... To give you an idea of perhaps where this question comes from, we look to John 10:17-18 where Jesus says, “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”
So I can understand why someone on the outside of that conversation would question whether or not this was the ultimate sacrifice. I mean, Jesus says it right there. “I have power to lay [My life] down, and I have power to take it again.”
This is what Jesus arrived in Bethany (which by the way means “house of misery”) six days before the Passover to prepare to do. He voluntarily came to the final week of His perfect life to be cruelly mistreated and tortured for something He didn’t do...