Bruised For Our Transgressions

“LOVE GREW WHERE HIS BLOOD FELL”

ANCHOR TEXT: “But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed” Isaiah 53:5.

Welcome to another new day. Today is good Friday, the day that is set aside all over the world for the commemoration of the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is the day the gap between God and mankind, caused by sin was bridged. What a glorious day. Being betrayed by one of His closest subordinates, He was arrested on mount olive, and was led into the courtyard for trial. After the release of Barabbas (a notorious armed robber) in His place, though guiltless when tried according to the Jewish law and customs, Pontius Pilate sentenced Jesus to death after He had been mercilessly flogged so as to satisfy the yearning of the Jews.

Jesus was deserted by all His officials, friends and even some disciples, and was led out of Jerusalem by Jewish soldiers to Golgotha as a sheep before her shearers, to face the ordeal of the cross. Golgotha was a place reserved for the cruel criminal and Jesus was counted among them so as to fulfill that which was spoken of Him by Prophet Isaiah, ‘He was numbered with the transgressors’ – Isaiah 53:12.

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