The Beating of A King

Tomorrow is Good Friday. I wish I had been more diligent in blogging all week about the final week in Christ's life. Tomorrow is not for sadness. It is appropriately named GOOD Friday. Its the celebration of the day that Christ died. And when He died, he paid for ALL sin! ONCE and FOR ALL! Sin is not something that He has to continually pay for. Every single sin of every single human was placed on Christ (God in the flesh). We needed someone to take our place. We need a Savior! There is no way that any person can be "good enough" to come into the presence of God. The only way to the Father is through His Son, Jesus. He came as 100% God to be 100% man. To live a perfect life, so that we don't have to live under the Law. He took all sin upon Himself. He died so that we would have life. And, most importantly, he conquered death and rose on the 3rd day! Praise the Lord God!!!! He's ALIVE!

All we have to do for salvation is BELIEVE that He alone can save! I believe and know that He saved me! I cannot make it to heaven without Him. That decision is left open for everyone. No matter how "bad" you think you are, there is NOTHING that God cannot forgive! Please, don't wait until you think you are "right with God" to make the decision! Believe today! Then follow Him!

The passage I am posting is from John 19:1-16

Jesus Sentenced to be Crucified

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and again, saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" And they struck him in the face.

Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him." When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, "Here is the man!"

As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify! Crucify!"
But Pilate answered, "You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him."

The Jews insisted, "We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God."

When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 9and he went back inside the palace. "Where do you come from?" he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. "Do you refuse to speak to me?" Pilate said. "Don't you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?"

Jesus answered, "You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin."

From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jews kept shouting, "If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar."

When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge's seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). It was the day of Preparation of Passover Week, about the sixth hour.

"Here is your king," Pilate said to the Jews.

But they shouted, "Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!"
"Shall I crucify your king?" Pilate asked.
"We have no king but Caesar," the chief priests answered.

Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified.