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THE CHOICE Mark 15:34-39 #Nightlight #RTTBROS\nlisten to this account of the Crucifixion and what it means by Joni Erickson Tada\nJONI\nOn your back with you!\u201d One raises a mallet to sink in the spike. But the soldier\u2019s heart must continue pumping as he readies the prisoner\u2019s wrist. Someone must sustain the soldier\u2019s life minute by minute, for no man has the power on his own. Who supplies breath to his lungs? Who gives energy to his cells? Who holds his molecules together? Only by the Son do \u201call things hold together\u201d. The victim wills that the soldier live on \u2013 he grants the warriors continued existence. The man swings.\n\nHis Father! He must face his Father like this!\n\nFrom Heaven the Father now rouses himself like a lion disturbed, shakes his mane, and roars against the shriveling remnant of a man hanging on a cross. Never has the Son seem the Father look at him so, never felt even the least of his hot breath. But the roar shakes the unseen world and darkens the visible sky. The Son does not recognise these eyes.\n\nOf course the Son is innocent. He is blamelessness itself. The Father knows this. But the divine pair have an agreement, and the unthinkable must now take place. Jesus will be treated as if personally responsible for every sin ever committed.\n\nThe Father watches as his heart\u2019s treasure, the mirror image of himself, sinks drowning into raw, liquid sin. Jehovah\u2019s stored rage against humankind for every century explodes in a single direction.\n\n\u201cFather! Father! Why have you forsaken me?!\u201d\n\n\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200bBut heaven stops its ears. The Son stares up at the One who cannot, who will not, reach down or reply.\n\nThe Trinity had planned it. The Son endured it. The Spirit enabled him. The father rejected the Son whom he loved. Jesus, the God-man from Nazareth, perished. The Father accepted his sacrifice for sin and was satisfied. The Rescue was accomplished.\nLiving He loved me, dying He saved me, buried He carried my sins far away, rising He justified, freely forever, and one day He\u2019s coming, Oh glorious day!\n\nOur Podcast, Blog and YouTube Links\nhttps://linktr.ee/rttbros