What Does Obedience to God Require?

March 24, 2024March 25, 2024 By nancy.new1234 To Be Saved Through the Shed Blood of JESUS / Trust & Obedience

“For you have been called for this purpose,
since Christ suffered for you,
leaving you an example for you to follow in His steps,”
(The First Letter of Peter 2: 21 NASB)

Today, we enter Holy Week, as we remember Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, riding upon a donkey colt. What a precious week of remembrance this week will prove to be.

He enters the city.
He comes willingly, knowing He has come to die.
He leads His disciples to prepare the Upper Room.
He serves them, washing their feet, breaking the bread, and providing the wine, symbolic for what He knows He has come to do.
He prays to His Father, asking for this cup to be removed, but yet, He willingly: Not my will but thine—GOD’S.
He endures the scourging, the humiliation, the unbearable pain, opening not His mouth.
He stretches out His arms and feet, enduring the pain of the cross.

Yes, get this—HE DID ALL THIS FOR YOU AND FOR ME!

“WHO COMMITTED NO SIN, NOR WAS ANY DECEIT FOUND IN HIS MOUTH;
and while being reviled, He did not revile in return;
while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously;
and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross,
so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness;
for by His wounds you were healed.”
(The First Letter of Peter 2: 22-24 NASB)

He hears the lost one hanging on the other cross, offering His Salvation, God’s Paradise, even while there, dying for us upon Calvary’s cross.
For six hours he hangs there while God permeates the world in darkness & rips the veil of the temple into two pieces, opening the way to come directly to Him.
Jesus only then accepts the sour vinegar, wetting His lips just enough to proclaim—“It is finished.”

THEN HE DIES!

“When the Sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, so that they might come and anoint Him.
Very early on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb when the sun had risen.
They were saying to one another,
“Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”
Looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled away, although it was extremely large.
Entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe;
and they were amazed.
And he said to them, “Do not be amazed;
you are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who has been crucified.
He has risen;
He is not here;
behold, here is the place where they laid Him.”
(The Gospel According to Mark 16: 1-6 NASB)

We can boldly go across the world, visiting the gravesites of all the religious leaders who have died and who have been buried. As we do, we can be assured that their bones remain there inside their graves BECAUSE THEY HAVE DIED!