April 15, 2025
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Reading along with us in our Lenten readings from “The Life of Jesus”? Here’s today’s reading:
Lent 2025 – Day 26 in the Book: “The Life of Jesus“
The Week Jesus Dies
Read Sections 5.55 through 5.57 (pages 181-183)
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I can only imagine the fear that struck the hearts of the people that witnessed the darkness, the earthquake, and the veil torn. To know and have the earth itself is recognizing what just happened! To have to acknowledge that it was no ordinary man you just had a hand in killing! No wonder the priests wanted that tomb sealed and guards posted (still trying to convince themselves men may have a part in his ressurection) knowing full well that everything Jesus had been saying had come to pass and trying not to accept that it was most likely going to continue. They would have to see first hand Jesus show that death could not hold Him and the grave could not keep Him and that He would indeed rise and save His people!
Lent Day 26
Amen Kelly. 4 miracles happen darkness for 3 hours God turns his back as Jesus takes upon all the sins of mankind. Earthquake. Temple curtain from top to bottom. Those that believed that had died rose from the grave. Soldiers believed as they witness. High counsel. Doesn’t sound as so. As they later go to Pilate to have tomb guarded. Scripture fulfilled as all Jesus bones can be counted. And pierced in the side. To read revelation ch. 1. Look he is coming in the clouds and every eye will see him. Even those who PIERCED HIM. I AM the alpha and the omega says the Lord God who is and who was and who was to come the Almighty. Knock out punch for anyone who doesn’t believe that Jesus was 100 percent man and100 percent God. Pharisees go to Pilate concerned he might raise. Still not believing after all they have seen.
Day 26
Lent Day 26
The scripture says that at noon the whole country became dark, and it stayed for three hours leading up to the death of Jesus on the cross. This in itself must had been a fearful sight. But then when Jesus commits His life into the Father`s hands, He dies. Right when He says this the curtain in the Temple is torn in two from top to bottom, and there is a great earthquake, and the graves of believers who had died were opened and they were raised from the dead. How could anyone deny that Jesus wasn`t the Christ after all that they saw? The army officer, the soldiers guarding Jesus, and all the others watching Jesus. It says that they were afraid and said that He was really the Son of God. Perhaps after Jesus rose from the dead many got saved. Even with all this proof, the Pharisees, teachers of the law, and priests still were intent in not believing that Jesus was the Messiah, for it messed up their teachings, and their power. The blind leading the blind. Remember what Jesus said earlier. If they did not believe the prophets, neither would they believe if someone rose from the dead. Sometimes the heart is so hardened that it can never recover, that is except by God`s grace. Thank God for His love, mercy, and grace toward us.
After Jesus died two believers in Jesus took the body of Jesus away and buried Him in a tomb. They were Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus. These two were both Pharisees but were afraid of what others might say and do to them. They both had high honor and had wealth. They must of have many regrets, after Jesus died because of their lack of boldness. They were probably ashamed of their actions, but in their view at least they could get the body and bury it and do the preparations. What a relief they must have felt when Jesus rose from the dead. Perhaps after this they both spoke boldly for the Lord. There is no mention of them in the Bible of how they were after these things. This should give us hope in our testimony of Christ when we fail to share Him, and to learn from it. He wants us to be telling others about Him and what He has done. Thank God that He is a patient, loving God and understands us. Seek Him, Serve Him.
Amen Dennis. Great analogy
”And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you may believe.“
John 19:35 NKJV
I like how John “breaks the 4th wall” here and addresses the reader directly. Telling us he was there to see it and that he is telling the truth. Why? So that you may believe.
Lent 2025 – Day 26
Lent 2025 – Day 26
The hardest thing Jesus did in purchasing our salvation was being separated for 3 hours from His Father. What a pointed way for Jesus to show that was going on, then to cry loudly (a difficult thing to do when you are being crucified btw) at the conclusion, why have You forsaken Me? How tragic that people missed that and thought Jesus was saying something else. Now once that awesome, loving, sacrificial work is done, there isn’t much else left. Let’s make sure prophecy is fulfilled, let me reveal that I was on mission here, and that is finished/completed..for now and forever and then I turn to my Father and give up my spirit. See Jesus dies, not because death overcomes Him but because He chooses it. And the fact that they had to break the others’ legs to help them die, shows that Jesus could have lasted longer, but there was no longer a point. And what a lesson here not to be a secret disciple of Jesus. But they do do well by Jesus in His death. And boy I was struck by the hard hearted, deceived Jewish leaders being to make the tomb as safe as you know how. Do we think that was a little effort or a lot? They must of thought they did what was necessary that protected against anything naturally happening to get Jesus out of that tomb….what they didn’t account for was the supernatural…and there is nothing that is going to stop that!