Author: Real Christianity development

Perhaps it will help to give an analogy to try and show the way Jesus paid our penalty. Think of an extremely wealthy man, such as Bill Gates. Imagine he was to stand outside a court with a cheque book or debit card and offer …

It was Jesus Himself who decided the moment of His own death. No human being killed Him.  Indeed, nobody was capable of killing Jesus.  Nobody could take His life from Him by force.  He laid it down freely, of His own choice, just as Isaac …

Many blame the Jewish people for putting Jesus to death.  That is unfair and inaccurate.  The Jews did not do it.  The Romans were more to blame, but even they weren’t really responsible for it and did not bring it about.  They were not even …

In addition to having to suffer physical pain on the cross, Jesus also had to suffer something far worse.  All the sin of the world was, for a time, heaped on to Him.  While that was happening, God the Father and The Holy Spirit withdrew …

Just as we have seen with the long prophecy by Isaiah, much of the information we have about what Jesus had to suffer on the cross is actually set out in the Old Testament rather than the New Testament.  For example, consider Psalm 22.  This …

One of the most extraordinary things in the Bible is the fact that what Jesus did on the cross was prophesied in fine detail by Isaiah eight centuries before it happened. We have just seen two such prophecies above.  Isaiah carries on and gives a …

Consider now this lengthy passage from Mark’s gospel, together with some short extracts from the other gospels.  These show the sequence of events from Jesus’ trial before Pontius Pilate which led to Him being sentenced to death and then to the execution being carried out.  …

Jesus was very afraid and full of dread on the night before His arrest and trial, as He faced what lay ahead of Him the next day.  But He bravely carried on with it.  Reflect on the passage below and try to imagine the intensity …

In enduring what He went through, Jesus was extraordinarily heroic. He is the bravest man who ever lived. We tend to overlook the outstanding courage and endurance that He showed. It was at a level far higher than that shown even by those who win medals like the …

Jesus was nailed onto a wooden cross with long nails through His wrists and heel bones. This was done after He had been flogged with a whip and had a ‘crown’ of long sharp thorns pressed into His head. This was done to cause pain, …