Life or Death

Scripture:
Matthew 26:47-27:56
Hebrews 2:10-18

Too often people see the God of judgement or wrath.  They cannot see His love or mercy.  I have heard people say how can God understand how I feel or know what I am going through.  People place God high up in the heavens aloof and distant not caring and loving.

The fact is God became man so that we can accept the fact He does understand.  Jesus lived a life here on earth.  He was fully man who felt love, compassion, anger, pain, and abandonment.  Jesus was and is filled with the love of God.  He loves us all.  He felt the love of His disciples and family.  Jesus showed mercy to those around Him.  He felt anger when His father's house was turned into a den of thieves.  He felt abandoned and betrayed by his disciples.  The worst of it all was when God abandoned Him on the cross.  When Jesus took the sin of man onto Himself God had to turn away.  Not only did Jesus fell the agony of being beaten, mocked, and humiliated He bore the pain of dying on the cross.  He was not just hung on the cross but nailed to it.  In His agony He had trouble breathing.  He had to lift himself up putting pressure on his feet with the nail going through it just to take a breath.  He had the agony of the nails piercing his hands or wrists pulling on him when he relieved the pressure off His feet.  No matter how He hung He was in agony.  The worst is He had to endure that agony alone abandoned and betrayed.

Jesus willingly wen through this so that we might be saved.  One man's sin condemned mankind.  One perfect man's sacrifice saved the world.  All we have to do is accept Christ.  We have to believe He died on the cross and defeated death and returned to us alive after three days.  All we have to do is Believe that through Jesus and only Jesus we can be saved. John 3:15 "That everyone who believes may have eternal life in Him."  Through Adam and eve we received death.  Through Christ we receive life...