WHY DID HE GO TO CALVARY? 3/24/13

REMEMBERING for us is what this season is all about. Remembering His ministry; remembering the ingathering of His Apostles and the disciples who followed after Him. Remembering the last week of His life; remembering the last supper He had with the twelve and how His teaching became more detailed. Remembering the bread and the wine and how He made it a covenant with those who would follow Him; “do this in remembrance of Me!”


JESUS WANTED us to remember calvary! He wanted us to never forget how much He loved His Father, and How much they both loved us. He wanted us to see His sacrifice as an encouragement for us so that we could keep keeping on in the faith, no matter what! This memorial He left for us, was so simple, yet beautiful! It’s simplicity would point back to the amazing grace of sacrifice that was to set us free from our sins.

OFTEN WE think of ourselves as nothing of importance. We say; “I am not worthy!” Perhaps it is important for us to remember the price Jesus paid for each one of us. Can you count the cost? It is beyond my imagination! It is important for us to reflect on why Jesus died!

“FOR THE SON of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” Mark 10:45    This astounding grace of God, included you and me in that many!   “For this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.” Matthew 26:28    Think about how evil you were and still are from time to time. Think about the price Jesus paid so that our sins could be forgiven.

“HE HAS now reconciled in His body of flesh by His death, in order to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before Him.” Colossians 1:22    Let us understand that holiness is commanded by God, and has been made attainable by Jesus, through His death. It does not imply that we are not totally sinless and perfect, but through repentance, each time we sin, we are forgiven.

“JESUS GAVE Himself for our sins, to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.” Galatians 1:4    Jesus could have called 10,000 angels but He didn’t, He willingly suffer and died. Nobody forced Jesus into surrender but even though He was guilt free, He allowed Himself to be taken and crucified for you and me!

“FOR IF while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more now, that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by His life.” Romans 5:10    Jesus’ death is what reconciled us to God; the cross was a bridge from death into life.

“BUT YOU are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were no people but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy.” 1 Peter 2:9-10    Our amazing God gave us what we call Easter to remember these things! God gave us the Church to be His witnesses!

I LOVE THE CHURCH! I thank the Lord that my mother sent me and my siblings to Sunday School. She went as a child, but with so many children and a husband with problems, she didn’t attend at that time. After my father passed away she made it a priority to be in church. The church people loved us little kids and when my older siblings began to attend, and then my mother, the church loved them also.

THE CHURCH plays a big part in what God was to accomplished on the cross. Don’t take it for granted! Don’t just attend on Christmas and Easter; make it a priority as a Christian to be in the assembly the first day of the week. Every Sunday is resurrection day! Every Sunday we share in the Lord’s supper! Every Sunday we come together to praise and worship our Savior! Every Sunday we listen to God’s Word and every Sunday we fellowship. When the doors are open, be there because where two or three are gathered in agreement, there our Lord is also!   WOW!     By Jane Ann Crenshaw 3/23/13