Thursday, January 11, 2018

Behold Him!

Behold the beloved Jesus, perfectly spotless and holy yet made an example of the severest justice.   Behold Him prostrate and agonizing in the garden; enduring the vilest insults from wicked men; torn with whips, and nails, and thorns; suspended, naked, wounded, and bleeding upon the cross, forsaken by God!


Sin was the cause of all His anguish. He stood in the place of sinners, and therefore was not spared.   Not any, or all, the evils which the world has known afford such proof of the dreadful effects and detestable nature of sin, as the knowledge of Christ crucified!


[John Newton]



2 Corinthians 5:21 ... For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.


John 19:17-18 ...  And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha:  Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.


Ephesians 2:16 ... And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:❤