"Victory in Jesus!"

“Victory in Jesus!”

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!                                  1 Corinthians 15:57





Today, we reflect on what happened many, many years ago, in a far away land, to the ONE and ONLY SON of the LIVING GOD.  Today, is marked as, the day, JESUS was MERCILESSLY put to DEATH, on an OLD RUGGED CROSS.  A shameful, act carried out on the WORST criminals. And JESUS was NOT a CRIMINAL.  Yet it had to be done, in order to SAVE mankind from their WRETCHED, FILTHY SINS.  There had to be a PERFECT SACRIFICE, and the Son of God, was the ONLY ONE who was qualified to carry it out.  The SINLESS SON, of the HOLY, RIGHTEOUS GOD of the universe, the CREATOR, of ALL things, that was ever CREATED, became the SACRIFICAL LAMB, slain for the SALVATION of MANKIND.  To the TRUE BELIEVERS, today is known as GOOD FRIDAY. 



The reason for it being called GOOD Friday is, it was the time when the PRICE was PAID for the REDEMPTION of ALL MANKIND.  For God so LOVED the WORLD that HE gave HIS ONE and ONLY SON, so that EVERYONE who BELIEVES in HIM WILL not PERISH but have ETERNAL LIFE.  For God did NOT send His SON into the world that He might CONDEMN the world, but that the world might be SAVED through HIM.  (John 3:16-17)



This is the VICTORY we have in our LORD JESUS CHRIST.  He CONQUERED DEATH and the GRAVE, when His Father God RAISED Him up out of the GRAVE. When He hung on that CRUEL CROSS, He TOOK ON HIMSELF ALL the sins of ALL MANKIND, He, who knew NO SIN, became Sin, in order to give us ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN.  And to be able to ESCAPE HELL with ALL its HORRORS, once you’re there, you have NO WAY to ESCAPE.  In order to ESCAPE, you MUST BE WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your sinful lifestyle, and TURN TO GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  CONFESS your sins to Him, and ask Him for His FORGIVENESS.  BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART, that JESUS died for YOU, and is ALIVE in HEAVEN, making intercession for you, before God.  Then ACCEPT His gift of SALVATION and VICTORY through our LORD JESUS CHRIST.  Do this NOW, while you still can.  He’s waiting and coming SOON!!!