Death of Christ (211)
  1. We are caught up in a battle between two kings and two kingdoms. And, whether we like it or not, we are ruled by one king or the other.
  2. Our meditation listens to the King of Kings when He says; it is finished.
  3. No matter how loving we are, we don’t get bonus points with the Almighty for imitating Jesus. We love each other because we recognize that “this is one for whom Jesus died.
  4. Out of His mind indeed, as He took our place between murderers and received the insults and torture of humanity.
  5. There in that moment, the waters of baptism reached down deep into the forsaken path of the grave with a man whose body and mind could no longer hold onto any reality otherwise.
  6. In Martin Luther's Small Catechism he borrows a line from St. Augustine about what defines a "god."
  7. There is just something about the idea of not being ‘under Law’ that sets off all kinds of alarms in the minds of many Christians.
  8. Because of Jesus, we don’t have to pretty up anything ugly thing in life.
  9. So, on this Good Friday, our sinful self and all our sins rest with Jesus here in His tomb. Our transgressions are fully atoned.
  10. At Golgotha, Jesus saves us from sin by becoming sin for us. Jesus takes all our messes, all our shame, all our guilt, all our fears and insecurities and He allows them to kill Him instead of us.
  11. Jesus’ death was a direct fulfillment of the will of His Father as promised in the Scriptures.
  12. Jesus was praying a Psalm. Psalm 22 to be precise, and both the Gospels of Matthew and Mark relay the story to us of Jesus praying that Psalm on the cross at the hour of His death.
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