“Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Luke 23:43. The dying thief found freedom in the final hours of his life. He admitted that God was right to punish his sin and right there from the cross, Jesus gave him the assurance that he would enter Paradise that very […]
“Jesus cried out…, My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?” Mark 15:34. The aloneness experienced by the Lord Jesus as He hung on the cross was a terrible isolation. In the awfulness of those hours, Jesus endured a suffering worse than even the agonizing physical pain of crucifixion: He was forsaken by the […]
“I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions.” Isaiah 43:25. Just as an Old Testament writer would write something on a papyrus scroll and then get rid of it forever by blotting it out, so God wipes our sin from His record. Consider David’s use of the words “blot out” in Psalm 51:9. […]
He tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple. Acts 9:26 The apostle Paul’s conversion and his early Christian witness were greeted with skepticism and fear. Later when Paul went to Jerusalem and tried to join the disciples, they were afraid of […]
“Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?” Matthew 18:33. The gospel of Jesus Christ brings the promise of peace and reconciliation with God and with each other. When Peter asked Jesus how often he should forgive a brother who sinned against him, the Lord […]