We are two weeks away
from Easter Weekend. It's a perfect time
for us to consider those Scriptures dealing with Jesus' death, burial and
resurrection with emphasis on his sacrifice for us. Read and meditate on these words, bring them
to the top of your list in prayer and meditation.
He
is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins
of the whole world.
Jesus
said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the
Father except through me.
And
the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as
of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
For
there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus.
He
entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats
and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
“For
God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him
should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the
world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through
him.
This
is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not
die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this
bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the
world is my flesh.” The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can
this man give us his flesh to eat?” So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say
to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you
have no life in you. Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal
life, and I will raise him up on the last day. ...
Who
has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord
been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root
out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no
beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of
sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and
carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and
afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our
iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his
stripes we are healed. ...
May
God bless your study.
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