"Were You There?"

"And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit." (Matthew 27:50)

This was the birth pangs of the Church, the Body of Christ referred to in Ephesians as the, "one new man."  The Church was, "endued with
power from on high," at Pentecost.  The New Birth, deliverance from Satan's power, "I go to prepare a place for you," however, all began with that agonizing cry.  The word translated, "cried," is much more intensive than the English word implies.  The cry that came from our Lord Jesus at that hour on that day in human history must have been horrific to those who were there; and, it reverberated throughout the universe.  It was a cry of such anguish that Luke records, "And the whole crowd who came together to that sight, seeing what had been done, beat their breast and returned."  What our Lord Jesus bore on that cross perhaps we will never fully know. 

This horrific scene at Calvary was the price of my rebellion, my sin, my, "O wretched man that I am!"  Now add yours and the rest of humanity throughout human history.  No one ever will have to undergo what Jesus did on the Cross.  He took the eternal damnation for all humanity.  That is why even in Hell, no lost person will ever know the pain of Jesus during those six hours.  He experienced Hell for everyone.

I embrace Him anew today Who, "knew no sin," yet became, "sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."  The pathetic religions of man cannot counterfeit such love, grace, and mercy.  "For the love of Christ compels us, because we judge thus: that if One died for all, then all died; and [Jesus] died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for [Jesus] who died for them and rose again."

Father, in Jesus' Name, I confess with Charles Wesley,
          "We have no other argument,
          We need no other plea;
          It is enough that Jesus died,
          And that He died for me."
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When an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

Looking unto Jesus"
Hebrews 12:2