Heading Towards and Beyond'The Remembrance of the Crucifixion of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ'; Tues/Thursday Weekly Series, Post E, April 23, 2019

​Welcome My Friends.

​Each year, I choose one of the 'rooms' of 'my house in and with Jesus' to post 'special posts', in celebration and remembrance of significant events in the life of my Savior, Jesus Christ. 

This year, 'in Remembrance of the Crucifixion; the Resurrection and Ascension', of My Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, it is on my heart to post here at 'the Welcome Room', posts for this marvelous 'season of remembrance'. 

By the end of this series, we will have studied: 

THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OF JESUS and
WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED?

First, I invite you to join me, to humbly 'remember' the Day that 'God the Son'  died for me and for the forgiveness of my sins', so that I could believe, trust and be 'reconciled' to God the Father, through Him'; by grace through the gift of faith, becoming a member of His Eternal Family and Kingdom, FOREVER. [The Crucifixion] 

I will never grasp as deeply, all that went into the Father and the Son's planning, even before the 'creation' for this 'climatic event'.  And, I shall never, ever think that I deserved the 'gift'.  NEVER!  But for the 'amazing Grace of God', like many others - I, deservedly, would be en-route to hell and eternal damnation. 

Post Series: A-AM/PM - April 9, 2019  Post B-AM/PM, April 11, 2019; Post C-AM/PM, April 16, 2019, Post D-AM/PM, April 21, 2019, Post E,  April 23, 2019.  Let us allow all the four [4] Gospel writers speak to us, first. 

Let us allow all the four [4] Gospel writers speak to us, first. 

From the Gospel of John  we find at: ​John 19:1-30 [Herein John 19:1-30] audio-bible.com/bible/bible.html

1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. 
2 The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe 
3 and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face. 
4 Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.” 
5 When Jesus came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe, Pilate said to them, “Here is the man!” 
6 As soon as the chief priests and their officials saw him, they shouted, “Crucify! Crucify!” But Pilate answered, “You take him and crucify him. As for me, I find no basis for a charge against him.” 
7 The Jewish leaders insisted, “We have a law, and according to that law he must die, because he claimed to be the Son of God.” 
8 When Pilate heard this, he was even more afraid, 
9 and he went back inside the palace. “Where do you come from?” he asked Jesus, but Jesus gave him no answer. 
10 “Do you refuse to speak to me?” Pilate said. “Don’t you realize I have power either to free you or to crucify you?” 
11 Jesus answered, “You would have no power over me if it were not given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.” 
12 From then on, Pilate tried to set Jesus free, but the Jewish leaders kept shouting, “If you let this man go, you are no friend of Caesar. Anyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar.” 
13 When Pilate heard this, he brought Jesus out and sat down on the judge’s seat at a place known as the Stone Pavement (which in Aramaic is Gabbatha). 

14 It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon. “Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews. 
15 But they shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!” “Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked. “We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered. 
16 Finally Pilate handed him over to them to be crucified. So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. 
17 Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). 
18 There they crucified him, and with him two others—one on each side and Jesus in the middle. 
19 Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 
20 Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek. 
21 The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.” 
22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.” ​

23 When the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes, dividing them into four shares, one for each of them, with the undergarment remaining. This garment was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. 
24 “Let’s not tear it,” they said to one another. “Let’s decide by lot who will get it.” This happened that the scripture might be fulfilled that said, “They divided my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.”So this is what the soldiers did. 
25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 
26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 
27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.

​28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” 
29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. 
30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

​​As He invites - “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light” [Matthew 11:28–30].

My friends.  If there is anyone reading this who has not 'come' to Him, though you have heard Him calling, won't you stop right this minute and take care of the most important issue of your life?

Have you taken care of 'your eternal destiny and destination' by NOW?  If not, IN THE PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, let me urge you to do so.   Amen. Amen. ​  ​

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