Welcome Addison. Carleeta ----- Original Message ----- From: "O.Addison Gethers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 5:59 AM Subject: {dbilg} Re: What is Easter
> > Hello Carleeta, > Thanks for posts this here and it's good to read what Jesus say . > Addison > Groups owner > > O. Addison Gethers > e-mail address : [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] > window live messenger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: durangoadd64 skype: > cowboys62 yahoo messenger: OADDISONGETHERS > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carleeta Manser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 9:27 PM > Subject: {dbilg} What is Easter > > >> >> The Crucifixion Of Jesus >> >> The shadow of the cross that was raised on Golgotha reaches across the >> centuries to offer comfort, forgiveness, and hope to us today. The story >> is >> almost unbelieveable, for it is hard for us to image such love. "God so >> loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son" is the message of the >> golden text of the Bible, John Chapter 3, verse 16. Jesus had to love us >> beyond measure to give Himself willingly to die for our sins. And we must >> complete the story of love by loving Him in return. >> >> Some of the Jewish leaders hated Jesus because He condemned their sins. >> They >> did not want to believe the truth He preached, as He urged them to repent >> and turn back to God. They became jealous of the great crowds that >> followed >> Him and believed in Him, and finally decided to get rid of Him by having >> Him >> killed. >> >> Since the Jews did not have the right to have a man killed without the >> approval of the Roman governor, they had to take Jesus to Pilate. At the >> trial they had no evidence of wrong-doing by Jesus, but put enough >> pressure >> on Pilate that he finally agreed to have the soldiers kill Jesus by >> crucifying Him. >> >> The place where they killed prisoners was outside the city of Jerusalem >> on >> a >> small hill called Golgotha or the place of the skull. Here they laid the >> cross on the ground while they nailed his hands and feet to it with great >> spikes. The cross was then lifted and dropped into a hole in the ground. >> The >> entire weight of the body tore at the spikes, and the pain was almost >> beyond >> endurance. The blood began to pound through the body as the shock of what >> was happening began to take its toll. As the cells of the body were >> broken >> down it became a living death that sometimes lasted for a few hours, and >> could even last for a few days. Since Jesus had been whipped before they >> took Him to be crucified, He was already weak from loss of blood. >> Mercifully, He lived only a few hours on the cross. >> >> Even with all the pain, Jesus thought of others rather than Himself. His >> first words from the cross were, "Father, forgive them for they know not >> what they do". Even though He could have threatened to punish them >> eternally >> when they faced Him in judgement, he did not do so. He thought of His >> mother, who stood by the cross weeping, and asked his beloved friend John >> to >> take care of her. On either side of Him there were two thieves crucified >> with Him. When one of them expressed faith in Jesus, the Saviour >> answered, >> "Today shalt thou be with me in paradise". As the terrible afternoon wore >> on >> and His pain increased he finally moaned, "I thirst", and was offered >> vinegar, which He would not drink. God blotted out the sun as if to let >> us >> know how black the deed which was being done, and out of that blackness >> Jesus cried, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?". His final >> words >> expressed his complete surrender to the will of God as He said, "It is >> finished; Father into Thy hands I commend my spirit". He then bowed His >> head >> and died. >> >> Even the earth could not accept the death of its Creator and Master >> without >> showing grief. There was a great earthquake which shook the countryside >> and >> made all people afraid. The only fear which we need to have, however, is >> that of refusing the love He showed in dying for us. The theme of our >> lives >> ought to be, "I'll live for Him who died for me, how happy then my soul >> shall be. I'll live for Him who died for me, my Saviour and my God". >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deaf-Blind Inspirational Life Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/DBILG?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
