12/02/2023
🤗The Joy of Jesus🤗
☝️Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.👑
• What joy is there when Jesus was wounded not for His but for our transgression, bruised not for His but for our iniquities, chastised for our peace, striped for our healing? (Isaiah 53:5)What joy is there when Jesus was crowned with thorns, nailed on the cross and His side was pierced open?
• The joy of Jesus is to set us free from the slavery of sin by the truth of Jesus. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free…Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin…For he whom the Son will set free, he shall be free indeed.” (John 8:32, 34, 36)🙌
• What kept Jesus hanging on the cross? Not the nails! It was His love for us and the joy of saving us from the wrath to come. (1Thessalonians 1:10) And so, He endured the cross; He despised the shame. (Hebrews 12:2)🙏🏼
• Here on earth, they pierced hands and feet and side of Jesus. In heaven, His glorified body retains the marks of the nails and wounded side for us. In heaven, we see Him as the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world to take away the sin of the world. (John 1:29; 1Peter 1:16-20; Rev. 5:6, 12; 13:8)☝️🙏🏼
• Jesus gave His all by dying for us. Let us give our all to Jesus by living for Him. “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.(2Corinthians 5:14-15)☝️
-Shared by Rev. Mar Quitoriano
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