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THE THEOLOGY OF THE CROSS
At the crucifixion of Jesus they offered Him wine to drink mingled with
gall.
He refused to drink their distilled damnation; He refused to imbibe of
their liquid fire.
At best or at worse you might say the Lord turned down
their social drink.
No wonder they continued with the crucifixion; our Lord
Jesus was a party pooper.
There isn't anything that makes a gathering of
people any more upset than to turn down their booze.
He would not take
anything that would dull His senses in the matter of suffering for our sins.
So they drove their nails through His hands, it was at this time that He
said, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do."
This was not
carte blanche forgiveness on the spot unless we can say there is forgiveness
without repentance.
The soldiers took the garments of Jesus and divided them among them.
They
cast lots for the seamless robe of the Master: gamblers at the foot of the
cross.
Many gamble today with higher stakes than were ever bet in the
gambling casinos.
There used to be a man many years ago who was known as "Bet Million Gates."
Some now make him look like a piker.
They play Russian roulette as far as
their soul is concerned.
They assume I will have yet one more day to line up
with the Lord.
Pilate wrote a title and put it upon the cross: This Is Jesus The King Of
The Jews.
Everybody could read it since it was written in Hebrew, Latin and
Greek.
The Jews said, "Write not the King of the Jews but that He said I am
the King of the Jews."
It was customary to put the charge against a criminal
on the cross.
An appropriate sign would have been a sign that contained all
of my sins.
That is the reason that Jesus died.
Because of computers we can
understand how God could give a read out of all our sins and hang them on
the cross.
Considering the thousands of impressions that can be contained in
a computer.
If all our sins could be computerized (and they are)- there
could have been an instant read out of our sins placed on the cross that
day.
The description of the crucifixion in Matthew and Mark is that they railed
on Him as they passed by and taunted Him "If thou art the Christ come down
from the cross, He saved others Himself He cannot save."
No truer words were
ever spoken than this.
He could not save Himself and save us at the same
time.
Mark adds this thought when he states that they said HA.
They laughed
at the Lord on the cross.
We are in good company today when they laugh at
our ignorance our stupidity for faith in the Word of God.
Even the two thieves rebuked the Lord.
One of them said, "Art thou not the
Christ save thy self and us."
Get yourself off the cross and us too we will
make a run for it.
The other thief later said, "Lord, remember me when thou
comesth into thy Kingdom."
Many today speak of being saved like the thief on
the cross.
To do this you would have to have lived before Jesus died on the
cross and before He arose from the dead.
Jesus told him, "Today you shall be
with Me in Paradise."
Did Jesus ever tell you that?
When we ask what to do
he gives us a somewhat different answer.
During the agony on the cross Jesus saw His mother and the Apostle John
standing there.
He said to His mother, "Behold thy son," and to that
disciple, "Behold thy mother."
According to some perhaps He should have
said, "Wait around for awhile, Joseph of Arithmathea, will be here before
long and I will commend you to his care he is rich.
He has a four or five
bedroom house, five bathrooms a five car garage, he can take care for you a
lot better than this poor disciple of mine who has given up his fishing
business to follow me.
About the sixth hour there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth
hour.
At about the ninth hour was when Jesus said with a loud voice, "Eli
Eli Lama Sabacthani."
Some thought that He was calling for Elijah.
Some
said, "Let us see if Elijah will come to save Him."
In most stories of
fiction the hero always arrives at the last moment to rescue the victim.
If
they thought that Elijah would arrive that day in a fiery chariot they were
mistaken.
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