Good Friday, 2024 ~
Where Would I BE, if JESUS didn’t love me ?
Where would I be, if JESUS didn’t care ?
(Song Lyrics from Andrae Crouch, “I Don’t Know Why ( JESUS loved me)”.]
For HE+ was wounded for our transgressions;
HE+ was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace [ think: HE+ was beaten so badly until HE+ was extremely disfigured; HE+ did not look human any longer. ] was upon HIM+.
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It is no wonder that The FATHER received His+ Precious SON’S+ Blood for our cleansing, the ONLY Blood that can cleanse us from sin. The ONLY Blood that can save us.
And with HIS+ stripes we were healed.ISAIAH 53:5
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YES . . . our healing comes from His+ Wounds.
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I+ gave MY+ back to the smiters,
and MY+ cheeks to them that plucked off the hair:
I+ hid not MY+ face from shame and spitting. ISAIAH 50:6
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The Roman soldiers and Herod’s men had HIM+ at their mercy so they unleashed their hatred of GOD upon HIM.
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Surely HE+ hath borne our griefs,
and carried our sorrows:
yet we did esteem HIM+ stricken,
smitten of GOD and afflicted. ISAIAH 53:4
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Oddly enough, we ascertained that GOD struck and afflicted HIS own Beloved, Only-Begotten, Righteous, and Obedient SON+ . . . instead of us, who are steeped in unrighteousness inherited from Adam, our first father.
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Where Would I Be, if JESUS didn’t love me ?
Where would I be, if JESUS didn’t care ? + + +
LET US PRAY:
LORD JESUS,
YOU+ bore my sins and my iniquities to the Cross . YOU+ were pulverized and beaten within a shred of Your+ Life for me.
I love YOU+ and owe all my life to YOU+. If you want it, it belongs to YOU+, my Great REDEEMER+ and SAVIOR+.
Worthy art THOU+, 0 LORD, Worthy art THOU+. Amen.
