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The Ultimate Sacrifice | Then He Bowed His Head and Died
The next part of our story is one of the darkest points in Earth’s history, as all the angels watched the Son of God agonizing in the Garden of Gethsemane, as He voluntarily took upon Himself the weight and darkness of sin. The Bible describes His agony being so great that His sweat fell to the ground like great drops of blood. It was not for His own sins that He suffered, for the Bible says He knew no sin, but for the sins of Adam and Eve, of their descendants who gave themselves up to unspeakable evils, for our sins, you and me.
Christ Took The Blame!
Christ took the blame of all the sins of every person that has ever lived and will live. For the first time in His life, Jesus experienced the guilt and separation sin creates between God and the offender, but He experienced it to the billionth degree. No wonder He sweat great drops of blood.
He Became Sin For Us!
He who knew no sin became sin for us, not because He had to, but because He chose to. In the span of a few hours, He was arrested, abused, mocked, treated with contempt, tortured by the scourge, and found Himself hanging on a cross suffering insult after insult from the barbaric crowd who looked upon His torturous death with sadistic pleasure. Never before nor ever after will there be a person who suffered like Christ suffered.
The question is why? Why did He remain on the cross and suffer at the hands of His enemies?
Then He Bowed His Head and Died
Verse 1
He heard a thousand mothers weep
For sons they'd never find.
The pain of dads who cannot sleep,
Then He bowed His head and died!
Verse 2
He saw the brokenness of war,
The tears of last goodbyes.
He saw the lives all torn apart,
Then He bowed His head and died.
Verse 3
He felt the weight of prisoner's chains.
He heard their cries at night.
He felt the lash of every whip,
Then He bowed His head and died!
Verse 4
He felt the pain of broken homes,
He heard the children cry.
He saw all despair and hopelessness.
The He bowed His head and died.
Verse 5
From Eden to Golgotha's hill,
Across the sands of time,
Came love to buy back fallen man,
God's son would have to die. To die, to die,
Verse 6
A shout split history in two,
And echoed through the sky.
The Father heard, thy will tis done,
As bowed His head and died.
Ending
All heaven heard, Thy will tis done!
Then He bowed His head and died!
He Died For You!
Why did Jesus allow Himself to suffer and remain on the cross? The answer is you. As He hung there in misery, He thought about you and made up His mind. That He was willing to go through all of this for you, so that you would have the chance to be free.
What a Savior! Through His agony, He chose you, and now He made it possible for you to choose Him. But was His suffering and death the end of the story? What does the Apostle Paul mean when he writes, if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile, you are still in your sins. We’ll look at this in our next episode.
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