Some may have heard this before, but it is well worth its 22 minutes. Especially this weekend, as our calendars call us to pay a little closer attention to the magnitude of the Cross. May God richly bless your Good Friday / Easter weekend. And may we rejoice over what Jesus has accomplished at the Father's hand by the Spirit's power so that we might stand forgiven, cleansed, remade and alive.
Here are two excerpts:
"In that moment Jesus hears his own word of power: the word of power that holds the merciful centurion in existence, the word of power that causes the hammer to be. He’s speaking it all into being: the soldiers, the priests, the thieves, the friends, the mothers, the brothers, the mob, the wooden beams, the spikes, the thorns, the ground beneath him, and the dark clouds gathering above. If he ceases to speak they will all cease to be. But he wills that they remain. So the soldiers live on, and the hammers come crashing down."
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"(Jesus) downs every drop of the scalding liquid of God’s own hatred of sin mingled with his white-hot wrath against that sin. This is the Father’s cup: omnipotent hatred and anger for the sins of every generation past, present, and future—omnipotent wrath directed at one naked man hanging on a cross.
The Father can no longer look at his beloved Son, his heart’s treasure, the mirror-image of himself. He looks away.
Jesus pushes himself upward and howls to heaven, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?'
Silence."
To God Alone be the Glory
A Crucifixion Narrative - link 1
A Crucifixion Narrative - link 2
(these are the same message in two different locations)
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