We are far too apt to hide ourselves in the crowd, and let all the messages of God's love, the warnings of His providences, as well as the teachings and invitations and pleadings of His gospel, fly over our heads as if they were meant vaguely for anybody. He knows our characters He knows all about us, and more than that, He directly addresses Himself to each man and woman among us. What does such an address teach you and me? That Jesus Christ, the living, reigning Lord of the universe, has perfect knowledge of each of us, and that we each stand isolated before Him, as if all the light of omniscience were focussed upon us. There are stringency and solemnity of address in that double use of the name' Saul, Saul!' Jesus Christ, by speaking His name to the Apostle, wakes him out of his diseased slumber, and brings him to wholesome consciousness.
Saul, Saul! why persecutest thou Me?' They used to think that they could wake sleep-walkers by addressing them by name. You and I, I suppose, do not need to be convinced by miracle of the resurrection of Jesus Christ but the bare fact that Jesus was living in the heavens would have had little effect upon Saul, unless it had been accompanied with the revelation of the startling fact that between himand Jesus Christ there were close personal relations, so that he had to do with Jesus, and Jesus with him. To Paul it came like the rush of a cataract that the Christ whom he had thought of as lying in an unknown grave was living in the heavens and ruling there. The means, in his case, are different from those in ours the end is the same. The revelation in heart and mind was the main thing, of which the revelation to eye and ear were but means. Of course to the Apostle it was mediated by miracle but real as he believed that appearance of the risen Lord in the heavens to be, and valid as he maintained that it was as the ground of his Apostleship, he himself, in one of his letters, speaks of the whole incident as being the revelation of God's Son in him. The first of these all but simultaneous and yet separable stages was the revelation of Jesus Christ.
I surrender to you daily and am at a loss for words. I can never say thank you enough for your sacrifice on the cross. Jesus, so often I can forget everything you have done for me as I go about my days. That my God in heaven cared so much about my salvation that he lived the life I should have lived and died a brutal death. I stand amazed at all you have done for me. Even though they tried you unlawfully and sentenced you to death, you did not open your mouth in protest. Learn more about the history and meaning behind Good Friday at - What’s so Good about Good Friday? You can also use this sample Good Friday Prayer to commemorate His sacrifice: Sweet and Precious Jesus, on this day I reflect upon the events of Good Friday. The results changed the course of humanity and what man meant for evil through killing Jesus, God meant for good! Discover the many Bible Verses about Good Friday in this collection of scripture quotes. The Bible tells us that Jesus bore our sins, shame, and burden on the cross. We can celebrate on Good Friday because Christ's death was a sacrifice so that we could receive the gift of eternal life. Good Friday is the Friday preceding Easter Sunday and is the day Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross.
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