I am reading in Mark 15
Jesus’ disciple Judas Iscariot had betrayed him to death. Jesus Christ was arrested and put on trial for a crime he did not commit. The people shouted, “Crucify him,” rather than to let him go free. And he was led away inside the palace by soldiers who then clothed him in purple and crowned him with a crown of thorns on his head, and who mocked him, and who struck him, and who spat on him, and then who stripped him of the purple robe they had put on him to mock him because he had called himself the “King of the Jews.”
And then they led him out to crucify him. And they hung the only begotten Son of God, who is God, on a cross to die, just because they didn’t like him, and they didn’t agree with him, and they didn’t believe in him and in who he said he was. And people even mocked him while he was hanging on that cross to die for the sins of the entire world. But Jesus Christ was sent to that cross by God in order to save us, the people of this world, out of our slavery to sin so that we would now follow him with our lives and have eternal life.
Mark 15:33-39 ESV
“And when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?’ which means, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ And some of the bystanders hearing it said, ‘Behold, he is calling Elijah.’ And someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink, saying, ‘Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to take him down.’ And Jesus uttered a loud cry and breathed his last. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood facing him, saw that in this way he breathed his last, he said, ‘Truly this man was the Son of God!’”
But please know here that Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, did not die that horrible death on that cross, taking upon himself the sins of the entire world, just so that we would be forgiven of our sins and then go to heaven when we die. For when he died, our sins died with him that we might now die to sin and live to righteousness, and that we might live for him and no longer for ourselves. For he shed his blood for us to buy us back for God (to redeem us) out of our lives of slavery to sin so we will now honor God with our lives.
For if we died with Christ to sin, how can we who died to sin still live in it? Heaven forbid! For our old self was crucified with Christ in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we will no longer be enslaved to sin but now to God and to his righteousness. So we are not to let sin continue to reign in our mortal bodies, to make us obey its passions. For if sin is what we obey, in practice, it leads to death. But if obedience to God is what we practice, it leads to eternal life with God.
[1 Peter 2:24; 2 Corinthians 5:15; 1 Corinthians 6:19-20; Romans 6:1-23]
For, as followers of Christ, we are to be dying to sin daily and living to God and to his righteousness, and we are to be following our Lord in obedience in living godly and holy lives, pleasing to him, and for his glory and praise. For the grace of God, which is bringing us salvation, trains (instructs) us to renounce (say “No!” to) ungodliness and fleshly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s soon return (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23; Titus 2:11-14; Ephesians 4:17-24).
But if we become followers of Christ who follow him in obedience and who do what he says to do and to say, and so we are those who are sharing and living the truth of the gospel and who are refuting the lies of Satan, then we should expect to be hated and persecuted and mistreated and even put to death for our walks of faith in Jesus Christ. We should not be living our lives for the approval of other humans, but we must be willing to be hated and persecuted and even mocked because we stand on the Word of God.
[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-25; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 6:22-23; Lu 21:12-19; Jn 15:1-21; Jn 16:33; Jn 17:14; Ac 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]
When I Go Home
By G. M. Eldridge
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes…” Revelation 21:4
In the moment He appears
And the light from heaven shines,
I’ll forget ev’ry fear,
Ev’ry pain I’ll leave behind.
Then I’ll see Him as He is
And I’ll know Him as I’m known.
Ev’ry tear wiped away when I go home.
Ever present is the tho’t
That a moment waits for me
When unworthy as I am,
His glory I will see.
I will empty all my praise
Before my Father’s throne.
Ev’ry tear wiped away when I go home.
If the trial I endure,
And your presence I can’t find,
Be near me, Lord, I pray,
Bring back unto my mind
That your promises are firm
And I’m never on my own.
Ev’ry tear wiped away when I go home.
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