“Humanity Versus Holiness”

 “Humanity Versus Holiness”

 

“Father, if You are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from Me.  Yet I want Your Will to be done, not Mine.”   Luke 22:42

 

The other day, I was thinking about our LORD JESUS CHRIST, and how He must have felt concerning the HORRENDOUS SUFFERING, which He was about to experience.  SUFFERING that was SO INTENSE, BRUTAL, and DEADLY, so much so, that it was known to be the WORST kind of HUMAN PUNISHMENT ever administered to a HUMAN BEING, who was sentenced to DEATH by the ROMAN GOVERNMENT.  And the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to KNOW.

 

So, here is what God has given to me, to tell you.  First, let us look at the HUMAN side of JESUS.  We find that He was a baby, born of a Virgin, and that was where the HUMANITY part of our LORD came from. JESUS was ALL HUMAN and ALL GOD, who is ALL SPIRIT.  The very IMPORTANT THING to KNOW is that even though He was all HUMAN, He NEVER committed a SIN, NEVER!  Because, He was ALL GOD, and ALL HOLY, He could NOT SIN.  And that was why JESUS became the PERFECT LAMB of the LIVING GOD, who offered HIMSELF, as the SUPREME SACRIFICE, that would ALLOW mankind to be FORGIVEN of THEIR SINS. 

 

JESUS, SUFFERED and DIED in the place of ALL MANKIND.  He was GOD in the FLESH, and was WILLING to GIVE HIMSELF for the FORGIVENESS of those who SIN against Him.  And to give MANKIND the GIFT of ETERNAL LIFE in HEAVEN, and to ESCAPE an ETERNAL LIFE in HELL, with ALL its HORRORS, and NO WAY TO ESCAPE, once you are there. 

 

Since He was ALL MAN, He had FEELINGS like people do.  And in our scripture, we see the FEELING of EXTREME AGONY.  JESUS, the CREATOR of the WORLD, and ALL that is in it, would face DISGRACE, GREAT SORROW, and AGONIZING PAIN, the like of which, mankind has EVER KNOWN.  So, as He was PRAYING in the Garden of GETHSEMANE, He was in GREAT ANGUISH knowing the SUFFERING that He was about to face.  And in His HUMANITY, He wanted to ESCAPE the INTENSE PHYSICAL and SPIRITUAL AGONY, so much so, that He voiced His feelings to the ONLY ONE who could STOP the PLAN of SALVATION, in SUCH a MANNER.  So, Jesus cried out to His Father, “Father, IF you are WILLING, please take this cup of SUFFERING away from ME .  Yet I want YOUR WILL to be done, NOT mine.” 

 

Even though He was DREADING the HORROR that He was FACING, He KNEW that there was NO OTHER WAY, and MORE than ANYTHING He wanted the WILL of the FATHER to be DONE.  JESUS was WILLING to take on ALL the SINS of ALL the WORLD, SINS of the PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE.  JESUS knew that WITHOUT the SHEDDING of BLOOD there cannot be the FORGIVENESS of SINS.  So, His ALL GOD part, won the BATTLE for the SOULS of MANKIND. 

He SUFFERED, BLED, AND DIED, BUT He DIDN’T STAY DEAD, on the THIRD DAY after the CRUCIFIXION, with the ALMIGHTY POWER of the LIVING GOD, CAME OUT OF THE TOMB and HE IS ALIVE, NOW sitting at the RIGHT HAND of the ALMIGHTY GOD, and is INTERCEDING for US.  

 

Have you GIVEN your HEART and LIFE to GOD, through the SHED BLOOD of His ONLY SON, JESUS CHRIST?  If NOT you can do it NOW, if you will first, ADMIT that you are a SINNER in NEED of the SAVIOR, who shed His BLOOD for YOU.  You MUST BELIEVE, with ALL your HEART, that JESUS died for YOU, and that He is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for YOU before God.  You MUST CONFESS your SINS to Him and ASK Him for His FORGIVENESS.  The you MUST be WILLING to TURN AWAY FROM your SINFUL LIFESTYLE, and TURN to GOD, with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART.  And you MUST ACCEPT God’s Gift of SALVATION, and ESCAPE an ETERNITY in HELL, and GAIN an ETERNITY in HEAVEN.  Do this NOW, while you STILL can.  He’s WAITING and COMING SOON!!!  Don’t be LEFT BEHIND!!!