(the most profound video I have ever seen.....Please scroll all the way to the bottom and mute our music first....and really listen during this lent season....and watch what our God really did for us......)
Why did you do it? Why did you not come down from that cross......sin is ugly....the taking of sin from the whole world was like taking a slap in the face from satan himself......is it because He saw us in the crowd.......our faces......his face............people in need......in need of a redeemer......sheep....in need of a shepherd.........
The Crown........
The crowd swells with hunger......with a thirst for BLOOD..........it will devour anything that gets in its way......
They weave a crown from throny branches from a near-by tree.............
They stick it to his head.....it pierces His brow and scalp.........then they begin there ridicule of him, "Hail, you King of the Jews!"..............they strike him.....they spit on him........then they strip him.....
then they lead him to crucify him..........
FORGIVE.........................forgive and you will be forgiven....condemn not and you will not be condemned............judge not and you will not be judged.............
Why did you do it? Why? ......in my quiet time this morning God showed me WHY?.........the answer so deep but yet so simple.......BLOOD..............................only by BLOOD alone can God and man be brought into a convenant fellowship......without it.....................there would be no access...........................by sinful man to a Holy God.......................................................
No approach to God................no fellowship with Him by faith................no enjoyment of His favor, apart from the blood..............................only through His death and the shedding of His precious blood is our life truly consecreted to God............................the hidden value in this amazing sacrifice........is SELF-SACRIFICE......................self-denial he so gently whispers again into this stone cold heart of mine........
taking in of the breath I breath and I say again the BLOOD..................
wanting the easy.......yet the God of Grace................the God who is omnipotent...............who could have so easily..........got down off that cross...................but he didn't........ he who CHOSE........so freely...to self-deny....to self-sacrifice.....to let His BLOOD fall..............fall like grace......the God who chose the hard....................instead of the easy................
never knowing......... the power............. of that cross......... until we give up self......................give up our lives..........................
the taking in of today ........the power of the BLOOD.............let us not forget..........
wanting change bad................down deep................the blood is dealing with me.................what is the blood seeking to remove.....................me with my worldly self................me who feeds the flesh............who craves the easy..................me the taker.............................................the blood is seeking.....................................seeking to become SPIRIT, LIFE, POWER, and TRUTH in our lives...........................seeking to make us one..............................one with the Father...................
Why did you do it? Why did you not come down from that cross......sin is ugly....the taking of sin from the whole world was like taking a slap in the face from satan himself......is it because He saw us in the crowd.......our faces......his face............people in need......in need of a redeemer......sheep....in need of a shepherd.........
The Crown........
They weave a crown from throny branches from a near-by tree.............
then they lead him to crucify him..........
FORGIVE.........................forgive and you will be forgiven....condemn not and you will not be condemned............judge not and you will not be judged.............
Why did you do it? Why? ......in my quiet time this morning God showed me WHY?.........the answer so deep but yet so simple.......BLOOD..............................only by BLOOD alone can God and man be brought into a convenant fellowship......without it.....................there would be no access...........................by sinful man to a Holy God.......................................................
No approach to God................no fellowship with Him by faith................no enjoyment of His favor, apart from the blood..............................only through His death and the shedding of His precious blood is our life truly consecreted to God............................the hidden value in this amazing sacrifice........is SELF-SACRIFICE......................self-denial he so gently whispers again into this stone cold heart of mine........
taking in of the breath I breath and I say again the BLOOD..................
wanting the easy.......yet the God of Grace................the God who is omnipotent...............who could have so easily..........got down off that cross...................but he didn't........ he who CHOSE........so freely...to self-deny....to self-sacrifice.....to let His BLOOD fall..............fall like grace......the God who chose the hard....................instead of the easy................
never knowing......... the power............. of that cross......... until we give up self......................give up our lives..........................
the taking in of today ........the power of the BLOOD.............let us not forget..........
wanting change bad................down deep................the blood is dealing with me.................what is the blood seeking to remove.....................me with my worldly self................me who feeds the flesh............who craves the easy..................me the taker.............................................the blood is seeking.....................................seeking to become SPIRIT, LIFE, POWER, and TRUTH in our lives...........................seeking to make us one..............................one with the Father...................
