Let use our imagination ,lets come to hill without a city wall,there's three cross'es ,there are two thieves hanging on cross'es,and Jesus is in between these two thieves.Both of these thieves are angry,the religious people around the cross taunted Jesus mocking Him, and the two thieves did the same.But something strange happened ,one the thieves stopped insulting Jesus,he had a change of heart,and he rebuked his fellow thief,he acknowledged that unlike Jesus that they were receiving their just deserts.He looked at Jesus,the person he had been mocking, and he found himself saying,'Jesus,remember me when you come into your kingdom', Luke 23 v42.Jesus spoke to him,'Truly I say unto you,today you shall be with me in Paradise'. v 42.For Jesus the cross was necessary, that's why he came, to be a sacrifice for sin,that effectively deals with the sin of all those who put their faith in Him, He bore the wrath of God ,that all who put their faith would not experience.that wrath You may be a thief, a murderer,adulterer,sex offender, and so the list could goes on, and on,yes we are all on that list, for we are all sinner,we all need Jesus,that means you and it means me.
'Man of sorrows what a name
In my place condemned He stood,
Sealed my pardon with His blood;
Hallelujah what a Saviour!
Philip P. Bliss.
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