Scientific Death of Jesus, take the 1 min to read, if you don’t cry, you may not understand who He really is. I pray the Holy Spirit awaken in each soul that reads, in Jesus Name! Amen!
For the next 60 seconds, set aside whatever you’re doing and take this opportunity! Let’s see if Satan can stop this.
At the age of 33, Jesus was condemned to death.
At the time, crucifixion was the “worst” death. Only the worst criminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was even more dreadful for Jesus. Unlike other criminals condemned to death by crucifixion, Jesus was to be nailed to the cross by His hands and feet.
Each nail was 6 to 8 inches long.
The nails were driven into His wrist, not into His palms as is commonly portrayed. There’s a tendon in the wrist that extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew that when the nails were being hammered into the wrist, that tendon would tear and break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support Himself so that He could breathe.
Both of His feet were nailed together. Thus He was forced to support Himself on the single nail that impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could not support Himself with His legs because of the pain so He was forced to alternate between arching His back then using His legs just to continue to breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the suffering, the courage.
Jesus endured this reality for over 3 hours.
Yes, over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of suffering? A few minutes before He died,
Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water from his wounds.
From common images we see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound to His side… But do we realize His wounds were actually made in his body. A hammer driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped and an even larger nail hammered through the arches, then a Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But before the nails and the spear, Jesus was whipped and beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The crown of thorns cut deeply into His scalp. Most men would not have survived this torture.
He had no more blood to bleed out, only water poured from His wounds. The human adult body contains about 3.5 liters (just less than a gallon) of blood.
Jesus poured all 3.5 liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His members; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond that, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His chest.
All these without mentioning the humiliation He suffered after carrying His own cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight, only for its higher part, where His hands were nailed).
Jesus had to endure this experience, to open the gates of Heaven, so that you can have free access to God.
So that your sins could be “washed” away. All of them, with no exception! Don’t ignore this situation.
JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU!
He died for you! It is easy to pass jokes or foolish photos by e-mail, but when it comes to God, sometimes you feel ashamed to forward to others because you are worried of what they may think about you.
God has plans for you, show all your friends what He experienced to save you. Now think about this! May God bless your life!
If you are not ashamed to do this, please, follow Jesus’ instructions. He said (Matthew 10:32 & 33): “Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge before My Father in heaven; but whosoever denies Me before others, I will deny before My Father in heaven.”
Just as Jesus said this to His disciples, it is relevant to us today. If your child was lost in a store or a mall, it wouldn’t matter how long it took, you would drop what you were doing and look for that child until you found them! Most of us would discipline that child when we did find them but the point is we would search diligently until they were found.
That is what God does with us. When we are His and we have truly given our hearts to Him, when we go astray He will seek us to bring us back. The desire of your heart will be to get back to Him because we know Him and He knows us. If you only think you know Him, this won’t work. You can step away from Him and after a little while you won’t even feel the need to go back to Him because He wasn’t in your heart to begin with.
Unfortunately, there are many people today who fall into that last group. They might be a member of a church or they’ve been raised in church for most of their lives. They know scripture and have been in Sunday school many times. They have plenty of “head knowledge” of Jesus. They know about Him but they don’t know Him. This is where the revival in the church needs to begin today…in the church!
Have you ever considered or thought about the Incarnation of Jesus, the Son of God? From a medical perspective, it happened in the same way that each of us has come into the world except that His Father was God the Holy Spirit. It wasn’t brought about with “sperm” but the egg of the girl was implanted with the essence of the Son. No “sin-nature” from a man was involved at all. Thank goodness.
God the Son, Who had created stars and galaxies, was placed into the womb of a girl of about sixteen years of age, betrothed to Joseph and of the family line of David the king of Israel. Jesus became a human being not for the reason of ruling over us, although He will one day, but He came to experience our life and its troubles. God came because He said He would come so that the curse of sin would be lifted from all of humanity and creation itself. We could be freed from sin’s curse if we would believe in Him and His mission. That belief must be felt in your heart, not just in your head.
He lived in her womb just as we do before we are born. In amniotic fluid, listening to her voice and the voices of those around her but likely not comprehending at this point. If there was laughter or sadness, He felt it although as an embryo it wasn’t understood. Think of it…God was a baby being carried by a young girl who had no idea what raising a child would be like. Especially the Messiah, the Son of God! The concept is mind-blowing today! Just imagine how Mary felt if you can.
All of this was before she even realized that there was a life, the Life, in her womb. The proof came to her when she visited her cousin, Elizabeth, who was carrying the child that would be John the Baptist. John would be about six months older than Jesus but as the prophecies said he would be the “one crying in the wilderness to make the way straight for the Lord” (paraphrased). When the sound of Mary’s voice came to Elizabeth, the baby in her womb leaped for joy and she was filled with the Holy Spirit!
Their families were devout Jewish families and since Jesus was born about six centuries before the Muslim religion ever came to be, He was not a Muslim. At the time of His birth, Israel was not separated like it is today so even though Bethlehem, Galilee, and Nazareth would be in Gaza in the future, there was no separation into a “strip” like it is now.
Seek Him to know Him and make sure your heart belongs to Him because one day He is coming back for His followers and it won’t be long.
Augustine was an early church father/preacher who wrote and taught many things in his lifetime. One of the opening sentences of his writings is this paragraph of The Confessions of Augustine, which acknowledges, “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in you.” (Confessions, 1,1.) Only in God is found the final happiness of any person.
This is a teaching and a truth I have written about myself that I learned through the Holy Spirit as I read the Bible over the last ten years. God reveals His wisdom and truth to us as we read and study His Word…if we seek His wisdom and ask the Holy Spirit to teach us. I am not bragging that I learned this because of Augustine but that it surprised me today as I was reading about him. God’s Word is the best book of Wisdom in the world because it comes from Him. There is no “human wisdom” contained in it because all that is written in it was inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Seek to know Jesus as your Savior through your study of His Word and ask Him to come into your heart and cleanse you while you study. He will give you the joy and peace that you have been searching for that can’t be found in schools or jobs or in any endeavor that we engage in daily.
The trap that most of us live in is created by Satan when we are young. We live in the “cell” that is our life and it becomes comfortable. I’m not saying that we worship Satan but before we can decide about following Jesus, he can come in and tempt us with a comfortable existence that we don’t want to leave. Many people, especially in the South, fall into this trap and they don’t even know it. They’ve been taken to church since they were in diapers, so the idea of going to church is planted early in life. This isn’t a bad thing but for those who have grown up in this culture, it can be deceiving.
When you ask someone if they are a member of this church and they tell you that they’ve been going to this church ever since they were a baby, that is a clear expression of a “cultural Christian”. Going to church, reading the Bible, listening to sermons every week at church, and even teaching Sunday School are all wonderful things to do but these become habitual. Some would ask me “What’s wrong with having a habit of going to church?”. Nothing is wrong with it BUT if you believe that you are a Christian because of your attendance record then you’re missing the point.
Being a follower of and a believer in Jesus doesn’t automatically happen just because you are in church or are a member of a church. Belief in Jesus comes from hearing the Word of God preached and being convicted by the Holy Spirit that you NEED Jesus as your Savior! No amount of work on your part or anything in this world will help you become a Christian. God sent Jesus to do what was necessary to save all of mankind and He did. All we have to do is believe in our hearts that He did and accept Him as our Savior.
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