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Christ's Ransom For Many #071
Colored eggs and candy eggs, baby chicks and bunnies, they are signs of Easter.And the week before Easter is filled with Easter egg hunts and parties. But unfortunately, Easter eggs and the Easter Bunny have replaced the message of the Bible for too many people. You see, during the week before Easter, your attention should be focused on what Jesus Christ did during the same week about two thousand years ago. Why? Because what Jesus did so long ago has an eternal consequence. The Bible says, "He resolutely set His face to go to Jerusalem" (Luke 9:51). Jesus knew that certain things had to take place before He was to ascend back into heaven. He knew, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day" (Luke 9:22). Jesus also knew, "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many" (Mark 10:45). In other words, Jesus Christ set His face to go to Jerusalem to suffer rejection and to suffer death by crucifixion. In Jerusalem Christ was to die on a cross to give His life as a ransom payment for the sins of others. This is why Jesus entered Jerusalem on what is traditionally called Palm Sunday. This is why Christ instituted the Lord's Supper on the following Thursday, to commemorate His death. And then, on what is called Good Friday, Christ went to the cross. He paid for the sins of people like you and me. To have salvation from your sins, you must not only listen to the story of Jesus, you must also trust in what He did.
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