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The Good Seed - Sunday, November 4, 2019
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Jesus in the centre

He, bearing his cross, went out to a place called Golgotha, where they crucified him, and two others with him, one on either side, and Jesus in the centre.
John 19:17.18

Jesus in the centre
That is the place that mankind gave Jesus of Nazareth: between two criminals, and He at the centre, as if He were the worst of them. "If he were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered him up to you," replied the leaders of the Jews, when Pilate, the Roman governor, inquired after their accusation (John 18, 30).

This is also the place that God has appointed for Him in His counsel. His cross was the centre of events at Calvary. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten Son" (John 3, 14 - 16). There the righteous One suffered God's punishment of sin in order to bring us to God (cf. 1 Peter 3, 18).

Consequently, the cross forces everyone personally to make a decision. Do I take the message of the cross seriously or reject it? If I reject it, do I consider it foolishness? If I accept it, then it is God's power for me (cf. 1 Corinthians 1, 18).

One of the two criminals persisted in his rejection and entered eternity in that condition: unreconciled with God. The other accepted the Lord Jesus' offer, admitted his guilt and placed his fate frankly but confidently in the hands of his Redeemer: That same day he entered paradise with Christ.

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