SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS

SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS
God's Promise

Friday, March 21, 2008

GOOD FRIDAY


GOOD FRIDAY
Today we observe the day when Jesus was beaten, reviled, and scorned, ending with His crucifixion on the cross at Calvary.
When He died He had accomplished His purpose of taking all our sins and iniquities upon Himself and paying the debt we owe so we could go free. Thus He fulfilled the words of Isaiah 53:3-9
“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces. He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth; He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open his mouth.”
Imagine His loving us all so much that He was willing to go through all this, to take upon Himself our sins and their penalty of death, and who bore them all, with their shame and their punishment, that all of us who believe in Him might be free and one day go Home to Him without spot or blemish. As you give thought to this day and what it means in the lives of Christians everywhere, please think about these things and what He has done for us.


HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD

The precious blood of Jesus
How freely it did flow
Upon that cross at Calvary
Two thousand years ago

And every drop of blood that fell
Christ gave so willingly
That every man might be redeemed
And live eternally

With stripes He took upon His back
And thorns pressed in His head
The spear thrush deep into His side
Til all His blood was shed

To heal all our diseases
And take away our sin
To overcome the enemy
As we are changed within

For when He was resurrected
He set the captives free
No more can Satan overcome
For now Christ holds the key

That we be washed as white as snow
Beneath the cleansing flood
As we come to know this Savior
Who shed His precious blood
Kay Smith Crouch

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