All for your consideration.
When Jesus was crucified, He was hung between two convicted criminals, one of his left and one on his right. And do you know what they had been convicted of? Robbery. Jesus was crucified between two thieves. But, as one person has pointed out, as far as justice goes, there were really three thieves on the cross that day. Two died for their own crimes. One died for ours.
This is why Jesus came—not to condemn the world, but to save it. Jesus came to take the guilt of of all the harm and hatred you’ve ever committed against his image-bearers, and to place it upon himself. He takes the hell of fire we deserve and in his dying breath says “Father, forgive them.”
In every way, Jesus lived out the beauty and integrity the law was meant to produce, revealing what true humanity looks like under God’s reign. So this Summer, as we study the Ten Commandments, recognize that we are putting our finger on the very pulse of our Savior’s heart. The law matters like a sunrise—we are invited to admire it, and to admire the God who reveals himself through it.
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