My Easter Ponderance this year stemmed from the Palm Sunday Sermon preached by our pastor, Buddy Gray. It was probably the best Palm Sunday Sermon I have ever heard. I highly encourage you to listen: Palm Sunday Sermon He talked about the 3 hours from noon to about 3pm in the afternoon when Jesus hung on the cross...the time of complete darkness that fell on the earth...the time when Jesus was bearing the wrath of all our sin (past present and future) and the sins of all mankind. It was the only sacrifice sufficent to satisfy the need we had to cleanse our sins and obtain the perfection needed for us to be restored to relationship with God for all eternity ..the initial sin beginning in the garden of Eden and mostly likely for me personally - the moment I breathed my first breath outside my mother's womb! Back to the 3 hours...It was the time when the Father had to separate from the Son because He could not look on sin...Must have been horrific! But the time came and Jesus said, "Into your hand I Commit my spirit"...and He gave up his Life...The wrath was born...the relationship restored based on this communication and the sacrfice complete...I pondered that 3 hours surely did not seem to be very long to bear the wrath of sin of every human being for all past, present an future...seems like it should take much longer than that...but now that I'm a parent, I'm betting 3 hours was about as long as the Father could stand it to be away from His Son and was ready for the relationship to be restored! A 3 hours that felt like eternity to both of them I'm sure! Thanks be to God for the Empty Tomb and His indescribable Gift!!
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My Easter Ponderance this year stemmed from the Palm Sunday Sermon preached by our pastor, Buddy Gray. It was probably the best Palm Sunday Sermon I have ever heard. I highly encourage you to listen: Palm Sunday Sermon He talked about the 3 hours from noon to about 3pm in the afternoon when Jesus hung on the cross...the time of complete darkness that fell on the earth...the time when Jesus was bearing the wrath of all our sin (past present and future) and the sins of all mankind. It was the only sacrifice sufficent to satisfy the need we had to cleanse our sins and obtain the perfection needed for us to be restored to relationship with God for all eternity ..the initial sin beginning in the garden of Eden and mostly likely for me personally - the moment I breathed my first breath outside my mother's womb! Back to the 3 hours...It was the time when the Father had to separate from the Son because He could not look on sin...Must have been horrific! But the time came and Jesus said, "Into your hand I Commit my spirit"...and He gave up his Life...The wrath was born...the relationship restored based on this communication and the sacrfice complete...I pondered that 3 hours surely did not seem to be very long to bear the wrath of sin of every human being for all past, present an future...seems like it should take much longer than that...but now that I'm a parent, I'm betting 3 hours was about as long as the Father could stand it to be away from His Son and was ready for the relationship to be restored! A 3 hours that felt like eternity to both of them I'm sure! Thanks be to God for the Empty Tomb and His indescribable Gift!!
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