All the things that happened here were predicted hundreds of years before. King David wrote, 1000 years before, Psalm 22 v1, 16 & 18. Isaiah lived about 700 before the crucifixion and wrote Isaiah 53 v4, 9 & 12. It was all in the plan of God... every detail. This is also proof to us that the Bible is Gods Word. What it says, came to pass.
Some strange things happened at the time:
- The sun stopped shining for three hours and the world went dark.
- The curtain of the Temple, that seperated the people from the Holy Place, was torn in two from top to bottom.
- Jesus cried out that He commit His spirit into the hands of God, and many who heard and saw this moment were saved.
Jesus died on the cross in the place of us who are sinners. God sent His Son to live as one of us and to take our punnishment. During the darkness, Jesus took upon Himself the darkness of our sin. Because Jesus was our substitute, we can be restored to God.
The two criminals crucified with Jesus reacted in different ways. One mocked Jesus, not seeing that Jesus was His only chance of salvation. The other criminal saw Jesus and believed and asked Jesus to remember him. This man was saved right at the end of his life. We don't know how much time we have on earth... Let us be like this criminal now and turn to Jesus as our saviour.
What happened on the cross really worked. Why continue life as if it didn't!
We started with an opening prayer. Graham spoke about Easter, Jesus had the cross tied to his back and was lead to his place of death, soldiers mocked him darkness came jesus shouted father into your hand i commit my spirit and when he said this he breathed his last breath and was taken into the lords hands. Jesus took all this punishment for us he was crucified with two criminals. God had it in his mind for him to be pierced and punished. Strange things happened when jesus died from miday to three 3hours of darkness and the temples curtain was torn in two when jesus died. What does all this mean well the last supper he broke up bread to represent his body and the wine to show his blood the curtain was ripped to show us that if we believe we can be restored to god not to be a sinner, so the curtain say we can go into that special room if you believe you will have internal life 1 now and 1 in paradise (heaven).
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