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Jesus Tells How He Will Die…

“Now this world is being told it is guilty.

Now the leader of this world will be thrown out.

And when I am lifted up from the earth,

I will attract all people toward Me.”

He said this to tell the kind of death He was going to die.

John 12:31-33

 

Remember Jesus Christ…

 

When Jesus Came to Golgotha

 

When Jesus came to Golgotha they hanged him on a tree,
they drove great nails through hands and feet, and made a Calvary;
they crowned him with a crown of thorns, red were his wounds and deep,
for those were crude and cruel days, and human flesh was cheap.
When Jesus came to live with us we simply passed him by,
we never hurt a hair of him, we only let him die;
for we had grown more tender, and we would not give him pain,
we only just passed down the street and left him in the rain.
Still Jesus cries, "Forgive them for they know not what they do,"
and still it rains the winter rain that drenches through and through;
the crowds go home and leave the streets without a soul to see,
and Jesus crouches 'gainst a wall and cries for Calvary.

- Geoffrey Anketell, Studdert Kennedy

 

The Tears of God

 

The Son of God in tears,
The wondering angels see.
Be thou astonished, O my soul,
He shed those tears for thee.

- Benjamin Beddome

 

Where is God and What Does He Do?

 

The Maker of the universe, as man for man was made a curse.
The claims of law which He had made, unto the uttermost He paid.
His holy fingers made the bough which grew the thorns that crowned His brow.
The nails that pierced His hands were mined in secret places He designed.
He made the forest whence there sprung the tree on which His body hung.
He died upon a cross of wood, yet made the hill on which it stood.
The sky that darkened o’er His head, by Him above the earth was spread.
The sun that hid Him from God’s face, by His decree was poised in space.
The spear which spilled His precious blood was tempered in the fires of God.
The grave in which His form was laid was hewn in rocks His hands had made.
The throne on which He now appears was His from everlasting years.
But a new glory crowns His brow, and every knee to Him shall bow.

- F.W. Pitt

 

My friend and brother in Christ Glenn Colley explains what happened to Jesus…

https://video.wvbs.org/video/the-killing-of-jesus-part-1-the-story-begins/