A Most Amazing Prayer: Forgive Them
Robert Dawson
John 18:39-40; 19:1-25
There are some people, when faced with overwhelming and devastating trials, who say they are victims of circumstance. Life happens, and they feel like helpless puppets hanging, without purpose, on the ends of life's marionette strings.
Then there are others, when faced with overwhelming adversity, who feel, ''I was born for this.'' They have the Mordecai mentality as he tells Queen Esther, when she was facing extreme circumstances, ''Who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?''
Winston Churchill, who as Britain's Prime Minister, led his nation against the forces of Nazi Germany, was a man who believed he was born for a tumultuous time like that. At one point he would say, ''I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been preparation for this hour and for this trial.'' We can put it this way. ''No one should pity me because of the trial and adversity before me. I was born for this!''
As we look at the final day of Jesus' life, our hearts may break, our sensitivities may be offended, and our minds overwhelmed by the horrors and atrocities of that day, but Jesus and Scripture would remind us that it was for this very reason He was born.
Jesus was not a helpless and hapless victim dangling at the end of life's cruel and capricious strings. He was following the plan of redemption for mankind that had been determined by the Godhead, Father, Spirit and Son, before the foundation of the world had ever been laid.
- Acts 2.22-23 - ''Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. 23 This man was handed over to you by God's deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.
- Acts 3.18 - But this is how God fulfilled what he ...
Robert Dawson
John 18:39-40; 19:1-25
There are some people, when faced with overwhelming and devastating trials, who say they are victims of circumstance. Life happens, and they feel like helpless puppets hanging, without purpose, on the ends of life's marionette strings.
Then there are others, when faced with overwhelming adversity, who feel, ''I was born for this.'' They have the Mordecai mentality as he tells Queen Esther, when she was facing extreme circumstances, ''Who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?''
Winston Churchill, who as Britain's Prime Minister, led his nation against the forces of Nazi Germany, was a man who believed he was born for a tumultuous time like that. At one point he would say, ''I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been preparation for this hour and for this trial.'' We can put it this way. ''No one should pity me because of the trial and adversity before me. I was born for this!''
As we look at the final day of Jesus' life, our hearts may break, our sensitivities may be offended, and our minds overwhelmed by the horrors and atrocities of that day, but Jesus and Scripture would remind us that it was for this very reason He was born.
Jesus was not a helpless and hapless victim dangling at the end of life's cruel and capricious strings. He was following the plan of redemption for mankind that had been determined by the Godhead, Father, Spirit and Son, before the foundation of the world had ever been laid.
- Acts 2.22-23 - ''Fellow Israelites, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know. 23 This man was handed over to you by God's deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.
- Acts 3.18 - But this is how God fulfilled what he ...
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