He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of GOD, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:3-6)
This well known prophecy and accurate description of what our Lord Jesus Christ suffered and endured for us on that day when He went humbly and willingly to the Cross of Calvary was written several hundred years before Jesus was born. GOD has always planned the provision of forgiveness by faith in our Messiah. There is no plan B. From the first gospel mention when Adam and Eve were punished, until Jesus spoke those words "It is Finished" GOD and His people looked ahead to the Cross. Through the lambs that figured the shedding of blood and the Lamb of GOD, to the death of sacrifices year after year that remind us of the cost of sIn. All scripture speaks of Jesus Christ and over and over we see His redemptive plan and the sIn that made it necessary.
He bore all our sins, and all our iniquities, all our spiritual sicknessess on the Cross of Calvary. But the story doesn't end with the Cross, for it is empty and so is the tomb. Christ rose from the dead, for death couldn't hold Him and the grave couldn't keep Him. As GOD in the flesh and without sIn, He was not guilty of death, He took OUR place and paid OUR penalty that we earned way back when Adam sinned against GOD and all mankind became guilty and under the curse of sIn. Now we who are in Christ have victory over sIn, and in this sInful world because of the blood of Jesus Christ. Those of us who are truly born again by faith and repentance will one day leave this broken world for our new Home in Heaven because of who He is, and what He has done and is doing in us.
IF you don't know Him, if you have never repented of your sIn and, believing GOD and His Word, received Jesus Christ paid sacrifice on your behalf, GOD calls you to surrender to Him on His terms. He is not willing that any should perish, but that you would come to the knowledge of the Truth. The Truth of what it cost Jesus to provide the Way to the Father, the Truth of what it cost to follow Him and live His Life in you. A life of discipleship and obedience that GOD tells us all to live in Christ. Believe and be saved today.
For the blood bought Christian, rejoice in what He has done for you, and tell others that they might live.
In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
He bore all our sins, and all our iniquities, all our spiritual sicknessess on the Cross of Calvary. But the story doesn't end with the Cross, for it is empty and so is the tomb. Christ rose from the dead, for death couldn't hold Him and the grave couldn't keep Him. As GOD in the flesh and without sIn, He was not guilty of death, He took OUR place and paid OUR penalty that we earned way back when Adam sinned against GOD and all mankind became guilty and under the curse of sIn. Now we who are in Christ have victory over sIn, and in this sInful world because of the blood of Jesus Christ. Those of us who are truly born again by faith and repentance will one day leave this broken world for our new Home in Heaven because of who He is, and what He has done and is doing in us.
IF you don't know Him, if you have never repented of your sIn and, believing GOD and His Word, received Jesus Christ paid sacrifice on your behalf, GOD calls you to surrender to Him on His terms. He is not willing that any should perish, but that you would come to the knowledge of the Truth. The Truth of what it cost Jesus to provide the Way to the Father, the Truth of what it cost to follow Him and live His Life in you. A life of discipleship and obedience that GOD tells us all to live in Christ. Believe and be saved today.
For the blood bought Christian, rejoice in what He has done for you, and tell others that they might live.
In Christ,
Jefferson Sweet
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