Devotional Song: … GO TO THIS LINK … Please take the time to take in a YouTube video of images and lyrics from Danielle Rose’s acapella singing … Crown of Thorns … poignantly singing of how we place that crown of thorns on our Lord’s head just as did the Roman soldiers on Golgotha when we mock Him with our sin.
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Highlight Verse[s]: Matthew 27:29 [NLT] … 29 They wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head, and they placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter. Then they knelt before him in mockery and taunted, “Hail! King of the Jews!”
… Little did the soldiers know that mocking Jesus with the crown of thorns, they had gotten it right … He was (and is) King Jesus!!!
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Highlight Passage [context]: Matthew 27:27-31 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… The Roman soldiers trying to mock our Lord on Golgotha, even putting a crown of thorns on His head with a sign above His head which read “Hail! King of the Jews!”
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 22 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… King David writes a song to prophesy Messiah's ignominious death on the cross.
Reference Passage : … Isaiah, Chapter 53 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Over 700 years before Christ’s passion at Passover, the Messiah’s agony and death was prophesied. My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Amy Boucher Pye, wrote of a personal exercise where she encountered feelings of remorse at the suffering Jesus had endured on the Cross. … The ODB author wrote: We sat around the table, each person adding a toothpick to the foam disc before us. At our evening meal in the weeks leading up to Easter, we created a crown of thorns—with each toothpick signifying something we had done that day for which we were sorry and for which Christ had paid the penalty. [See Photo]
The exercise brought home to us, night after night, how through our wrongdoing we were guilty and how we needed a Savior. And how Jesus freed us through His death on the cross.
This little Easter dinner exercise the ODB author related does capture something very poignant and pertinent; … that we need to recognize that we were the ones who put that crown of thorns on our Lord’s head; and we ARE the ones who put those nails into His hands and feet. We did it - and we do it - with our sins.
But incredibly fortunately for those of us who know and believe what King Jesus did on that Passover Passion, when Jesus said “It is finished [!]” from the cross, … IT WAS; and our sins were covered with His blood and paid for in full.
So, now you can join me in a heartfelt HALLELUJAH!!! as we celebrate what our King Jesus did for us on that cross and by rising again to life to show all mankind of His victory over sin and death.
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My THANKFULNESS: … Oh Lord, Jesus, thank You for Your pronouncement of forgiveness for my sins on that Cross.
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My Prayer Today: Abba Father, … King Jesus, … Precious Spirit … You died and now live so that I am forgiven and await eternity with You. HALLELUJAH! … Amen
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