JESUS wept.
John 11:35
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Who+ in the days of HIS+ flesh, when HE+ had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto HIM that was able to save HIM+ from death, and was heard in that HE+ feared . . . Hebrews 5:7
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Once at the grave of Lazarus; once in the Garden of Gethsemane.
What made HIM+ cry ?
DEATH.
For it became HIM, for WHOM are all things, and by WHOM are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory,
to make the CAPTAIN+ of their Salvation
PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS.
Hebrews 2:10
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Are we perfect ? NO. But our CAPTAIN+ is . . . and was . . . even in the days of His+ flesh.
HE+ was made PERFECT THROUGH SUFFERINGS. Yes, “sufferingS” is indeed plural.
All people suffer; the human heart knows its own sorrow, no matter of how someone’s life looks to others on the outside.
ALL Suffering has the hidden blessing of perfecting us
in our walk with CHRIST JESUS.
And HE+ went a little farther,
AND FELL ON HIS+ FACE,
and prayed, saying,
O My+ FATHER, if it be possible, let this cup pass from ME+:
nevertheless not as I+ will, but as THOU wilt.
Matthew 26:39
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YES, our dear LORD JESUS fell on His+ Face , crying and pleading for that cup – His+ Crucifixion -- to be passed away from HIM+.
7 Who+ in the days of His+ Flesh, when HE+ had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto HIM WHO was able to save HIM+ from death, and was heard in that HE+ feared;
Hebrews 5: 7
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The PROMISE is that we will not suffer death eternal but will live forever.
It is NOT PROMISED that we can escape all suffering living on planet earth, in this fallen, cursed-laden world.
But there is another PROMISE:
Blowing the Shofar on Passover
39 And HE+ went a little farther, and fell on His+ Face,
and prayed, saying,
O My+ FATHER,
if it be possible, let this cup pass from ME+:
nevertheless not as I+ will,
but as THOU wilt.
Matthew 26:39
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Our LORD JESUS CHRIST knew at the sound of the Shofar on Passover morning that HE+ was going to be The Passover LAMB+ of GOD this time.
This FINAL time, HE+ would become the Last and Final Passover Sacrifice that the earth would know. HE+ would put to rest the need for all future Passover Lambs being slaughtered. HE+ was the last and great --- and SUFFICIENT --- Sacrifice for the human race.
#8 PASCHAL FAST ~
Lenten Meditation # 8, 2022
FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME.
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Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME.
Then came there a voice from Heaven, saying,
I have both glorified it,
and will glorify it again.
John 12:27-28
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This is the Divine Reason WHY The LORD JESUS came to His+ Hour.
It was to GLORIFY His+ Heavenly FATHER.
This is the “cause” that we embrace as well: to GLORIFY our Heavenly FATHER.
We glorify HIM when we submit to HIS Will.
Never do we forget that we too learn OBEDIENCE through the things that we SUFFER .
PASCHAL FAST ~
Lenten Meditation # 7, 2022
. . . but for THIS CAUSE came I+ unto this hour.
John 12:27
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Now is My+ Soul troubled and what shall I+ say? ‘FATHER, save ME+ from this hour ?’ but for this cause came I+ unto this hour.
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When we are going through life’s HARD times of sorrow, of sickness, of struggles within and without, let us apply His+ Words to us:
. . . For THIS CAUSE came I unto this hour.
For THIS REASON --- to endure the struggle, to experience this sickness, to walk that deep, dark valley of heart-ache --- The LORD has allowed THAT “CROSS” to enter into our life. . .
. . . Our little life. It means SO MUCH to HIM+.
#6 PASCHAL FAST ~
Lenten Meditation # 6, 2022
“ . . .and what shall I+ say?
‘FATHER, save ME+ from this hour ?’ . . .”
Now is My+ Soul troubled
and what shall I+ say?
‘FATHER, save ME+ from this hour ?’
but for this cause came I+ unto this hour.
DID the FATHER FORSAKE HIS OBEDIENT SON+ ?
#4 PASCHAL FAST
# 4 ~
Lenten Meditation -2022
ELOI ! ELOI ! Lama sabachthani ?
MY+ GOD, MY+ GOD,
why hast THOU forsaken ME+?
And at the ninth hour JESUS cried with a loud voice, saying, ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI? which is, being interpreted, MY GOD, MY GOD, why hast THOU forsaken ME+? Mark 15:34
SO IT SEEMED ! But it only "seemed" so.
The FATHER was NOT willing.
HE did NOT remove the Cup of suffering, even from HIS Beloved SON+.
In obedience, The LORD JESUS submitted His+ natural, human Will to His+ FATHER’S Divine Will.
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STEADFASTLY HE+ Set His+ Face ~ PASCHAL FAST ~
# 2 ~ Lenten Meditation
Luke 9:51
And it came to pass, when the time was come
that HE+ should be received up,
HE+ steadfastly set His+ Face
to go to Jerusalem.
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I M M O V A B L E
She believed in The LORD JESUS CHRIST . . . upset, but still alive. Jacksonville school shooting, 2018
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust,
in the sure and certain HOPE
of the RESURRECTION unto ETERNAL LIFE
through JESUS CHRIST our LORD.
at Whose+ Coming in Glorious Majesty will judge the world; and the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in HIM+ shall be changed, and made like unto His+ Glorious Body; according to the mighty working whereby HE+ is able to subdue all things unto Himself+.
