The following is a post I just made on my Facebook wall for Good Friday. I wanted to share it with you.
On this day 1,983 years ago, a man from Nazareth was wrongfully executed, convicted by a rigged jury and angry mob.
As he hung on the cross and died, he forgave the people the killed him, he forgave his friends that abandoned him, and he forgave you. For it wasn’t the lashes or the beating that ended his life, nor the asphyxiation from his shoulders being dislocated. It was your sin—and mine—upon his back. He was the only perfect man that ever lived and he willingly made himself a sacrifice because none of us are worthy of joining God in Heaven.
Romans 10:9 says that “if you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” It’s as simple as that. You can’t earn your way into Heaven. It’s not a matter of being a good person. There are not multiple ways to get there. Jesus said no man comes to the Father, but through Him.
This is the one day of the year that I will be this bold on my Facebook wall. The one day of the year that I will push this on you because it’s important. You need to get it. Without Christ, you are destined for hell. You don’t need to get your shit together before coming to Him, that’s the entire point. You can’t do it on your own. Just realize that the cross was for you. The sacrifice was to cover your sins. And salvation is as simple as accepting that.
