Pilate asked Jesus, “Are you the king of the Jews? “So you say, They asked Jesus are not the king of the Jews. Jesus answered, “You say I am”. Thereafter, Jesus did not say any word to them again. The Jews during the Passover had the habit of setting a prisoner free (so they knew what grace was about). A man called Barabbas who was in prison for committing murder during riots, he was a rebel was set free. The majority will love a rebel and a rioter and choose to set him free in place of Jesus. This is why the innocent suffer because it is the cross line that exist, every rebel wants to be saved at the expense of another persons life and this why the nation of Israel fell after the death of Jesus. They did kill him but their nation dismantled.
The Jews shouted “Crucify him” his blood be upon our heads. A bold and assertive move to make for a country who lord was the God. They even forgot their laws that to: Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent—the Lord detests them both. Proverbs 17; 15-16. Afterall the Levitical law was a life for a life but now it depends on what life you are substituting for another a righteous for the unrighteous. Even Pilate was sensible enough to ask again what crime Jesus had committed. But the Jews were bold in doing wrong. The soldiers mocked him saying long live the KING OF THE JEWS, they yelled he saved others let him save himself, other said He was saying Elias was going to come and save him. They mocked him, almost all Christian may have worked on the road. They said he trusted in the lord let the lord saved him. They mocked him saying he was going to tear the temple in 3 days and rebuild it.
The summoned Simon the Cyrene (suffering Christians) to carry the cross of Jesus until he was at Golgotha (the place for the head of skulls). They gave him myrrh, tore his clothes, the man crucified with him even mocked him. In the 3rd hour, Jesus cried, Eloi Eloi Lema Sabachthani – my God my God why have you forsaken me. It is as though most Christian feel forsaken when the cross between injustice and justice meet. Jesus died as the soaked cheap wine in a sponge to give him. The cloud darkened is where the temple got torn in two. The officer said “surely this man was the son of God”. It was Joseph of Arimathea, a respected man in the council who took Jesus body to wrap and lay it in a tomb.
Lessons:
Most times in the ply for justice, injustice resonates with man more than justice because most unbelievers feel condemned (they have done the same thing).
Most people stand on the side of injustice than justice. That is why injustice prevail.
To be on the side of Jesus is choosing to be on the side of mockery without expecting anything – Grace is after free will to work for God without condition as with Jesus, it is free gift of God, lest any man should boast.
Indeed mercy refused in my life, when LOVE took my place and that GRACE. it has thorns nail scared hands, it is ALONE but it is still GRACE AND I AM PRODUCT OF IT, Gods riches at Christ expense.
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