The Forgiveness Christ

We read in John 19 about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The soldiers beat Jesus, hit him with the palms of their hands, platted a crown of thorns and smacked it down over his forehead. All the Jews were standing around yelling, “Crucify him, crucify him!”
Pilate tried several times to get Jesus off the hook by telling the people, “I find no fault in this man.” Pilate tried hard to release Jesus, but the Jews wouldn’t hear of it. Finally Pilate delivered over a beaten, and bloody Christ, and they led him away to a place called, the place of a skull, meaning in the Hebrew tongue, Golgotha. There, they crucified him in the middle of two thieves.
The one thief looked at Jesus and said, “If are really God’s son like you say you are, why don’t you come down and save yourself, and us too.”
The other thief however, said, “Leave him alone. We are thieves, we deserve to die, but this man has done nothing wrong.”
Then he turned to Jesus and said, “Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.”
The Lord Jesus Christ looked at him and said, “Today, you will be with me in paradise.”
You see, this disproves the fact that some people teach you have to live a good life, or do good works to get into heaven. All that thief did, was believe that Jesus Christ was Lord. The Bible says in Ephesians 2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.” Titus 3:5, Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us”
. Guess what else? The dying thief, didn’t have time to get baptized hanging up there on that cross, yet he went to paradise with Jesus Christ that day.
Well, you know the story. They placed Jesus Christ in a tomb, and rolled a huge stone over the mouth of that tomb. On the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene came early to the tomb, and she saw that the stone was rolled away from the tomb. She ran to get two of Jesus disciples that he loved dearly. When they got to the tomb, they both looked inside and saw the linen clothes and the napkin that covered Jesus face, but Jesus was gone. Peter and the other disciple left, but Mary stayed at the tomb. She began to weep. She stooped down, and looked into the tomb. Then she saw two angels in white, sitting down in the tomb, one at the head, and one at the feet where Jesus had lain. They said to her, “Why are you weeping?”
And she said, “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him.”
Then she turned around, and saw a man standing a little ways off. She ran up to him thinking that he was just the gardener, and with her head down, she said to him, “ Sir, if you have moved my Lord, please tell me where, so I can take him away.” Then came that familiar voice. One that she had heard quite often. He called her by name, and there was no mistaken it, this was the voice of her Lord.
Jesus also appeared to the other disciples when they were all gathered together in a house. He said to them, “Peace be unto you, as my father hath sent me, even so send I you.”
God knew there was no way that we could pay for our own sins, so he sent his son Jesus Christ down to earth to die on the cross to pay for all the sins of the world. He completed his mission. The last words he said before he died were, “It is finished!”
Now we have a job to do. We have to tell others about the one who died, was buried, and rose again from the grave. We need to tell them about the one who can save them from their sins. In Titus 1:2, it says, “In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began.”
We need to tell others about that promise. The Bible says in verse 31, “These things are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Son of God; and that believing, ye might have life through his name.”
There would be no hope for man, if Christ had not of rose from the grave. Now we have hope, and a promise that we too will come up out of the grave. John 5:28, “Marvel not at this; for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice.”
I’m so glad that, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 13:35