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Hey, do you know who is Barabbas? (SEE MATT 27: 11-16)
It is one of the most moving gem in the Bible about GRACE that God paints in the Bible...
I want to preach on this again for this text excites me! I wrote a version of this back in 2002 and I quote from my website in part:
(See http://teamtruth.com/sermon/ser_whotookthecross.htm)
Even as Jesus was going to die, even in the moment in history when such a somewhat bitter painful moment was going on, God worked out this scene that showed two people caught in the middle of it all: Jesus Christ and the prisoner name Barabbas.
Barabbas. It's interesting to note that his name meant "son of father". Normally, that name was given to the sons of priests. That's what some scholars believe Barabbas was. But somewhere along Barabbas life, he strayed. He became a murderer. Elsewhere in the Bible, Barabbas was mentioned as an insurrectionist. In other words, Barabbas was a terrorist!

We also know that
As a custom, the Roman governor would release one prisoner of the Jew during the festival by what the crowds wanted to be freed
And guess who was free the year Jesus died? Pilate, the governor rather have Jesus freed but the crowd so hated Jesus that they rather free Barrabbas; To think of a regular man dying for a crime he didn't commit is outrageous; Even more outrageous is JESUS who HAS NEVER SIN...
Yet he died instead of Barrabbas; Barrabbas life was spared. Jesus ultimately DIED for YOUR SINS. SO THAT YOU WOULD BE SPARED.
HIS GRACE IS ENOUGH FOR YOU NO MATTER HOW SINFUL YOU ARE
WILL YOU SEEK CHRIST FOR FORGIVENESS AND A NEW LIFE? (See http://teamtruth.com/sermon/ser_whotookthecross.htm)
The richness of HIS LOVE ILLUSTRATED! |
| | Posted 4/15/2006 4:29 PM - 2 views - 18 comments
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