Bible Verses: Isaiah 53:102 Corinthians 5:21Matthew 27:46John 3:8-12
Read MoreConsider the experience of Moses in the desert as he beheld the fire that burned in the bush without consuming it. Moses had no hesitation in kneeling before the bush and worshiping God. Moses was not worshiping a bush; it was God and His glory dwelling in the bush whom Moses worshiped! This is an imperfect illustration, for when the fire departed from that bush, it was a bush again. But this Man, Christ Jesus, is eternally the Son. In the fullness of this mystery, there has never been any...
Bible Verses: Matthew 27:46
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: Colossians 3:1-15
It is time now to focus more precisely on what Jesus meant when He said: "Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." Meekness, as Jesus is using the word here, refers to an attitude of heart and mind that is entirely free from a spirit of demandingness and accepts the will of God in its entirety. I...
Bible Verses: Colossians 3:1-15Isaiah 53:1-7Matthew 26:62-63Matthew 27:14Luke 23:9
Read MoreFor Reading and Meditation: Matthew 27:32-44
What humiliation and shame our Lord endured for us on the cross of Calvary. Cicero, a Roman philosopher, said of crucifixion: "Far be the very name of a cross not only from the bodies of Roman citizens, but from their imaginations, eyes and ears." But He, our Lord, though sinless, was crucified on a cross. Although...
Bible Verses: Matthew 27:32-44Galatians 1:1-5Galatians 2:201 Timothy 2:6Titus 2:14
Read MoreNo mean miracle was wrought in the rending of so strong and thick a veil; but it was not intended merely as a display of power-many lessons were herein taught us. The old law of ordinances was put away, and like a worn-out vesture, rent and laid aside. When Jesus died, the sacrifices were all finished, because all fulfilled in him, and therefore the place of their presentation was marked with an evident token of decay. That rent also revealed all the hidden things of the old dispensation:...
Bible Verses: Matthew 27:51
Read MoreHe had never been slow of speech when he could bless the sons of men, but he would not say a single word for himself. "Never man spake like this man," and never man was silent like him. Was this singular silence the index of his perfect self- sacrifice? Did it show that he would not utter a word to stay the slaughter of his sacred person, which he had dedicated as an offering for us? Had he so entirely surrendered himself that he would not interfere in his own behalf, even in the minutest...
Bible Verses: Matthew 27:14
Read MoreBible Verses: Matthew 27:33-50Galatians 2:20Luke 23:34John 1:11John 10:15-18
Read MoreBible Verses: John 19:1-16Isaiah 53:5Galatians 3:13Proverbs 1:28Matthew 27:25
Read MoreThe veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. § Christ … suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God. § The way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.No one comes to the Father except through Me. § Through Him we … have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now, therefore, you...
Bible Verses: John 10:7Matthew 27:511 Peter 3:18Hebrews 9:8John 10:9John 14:6Ephesians 2:18Ephesians 2:19Hebrews 10:19Hebrews 10:20Romans 5:1Romans 5:2
Read MoreThe way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest. § Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit. Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.Brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh … let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our...
Bible Verses: Exodus 25:21Exodus 25:22Hebrews 9:8Matthew 27:50Matthew 27:51Hebrews 10:19Hebrews 10:20Hebrews 10:22Hebrews 4:16Romans 3:24Romans 3:25Ephesians 2:18
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About the intimate workings of the Holy Spirit in the human heart there is a highly personal relationship in which no third person can share. The sacred work of redemption was wrought in darkness. No strange eye could see what was taking place when the sins of the world entered the holy soul of Christ that He might die under their weight and thus make "his life a guilt offering" (Isaiah 53:10; 2...