Three Crosses, Two Choices, One Savior

I'm a terrible sinner with a wicked heart that is more wicked than I am even aware of. And that's that's that's not great news. But what is great news is that Jesus loves terrible sinners, and he is a even mightier savior than I am a sinner. And he is ready to save. And all that is necessary for a person to enter into paradise and to have god's assurance that that will be your destiny is that you put your faith in the man on the middle cross. [01:06:25] (46 seconds)  #GraceForSinners

This story magnifies god's grace. This story stands forever as a testimony to the truth that god's grace reaches so deeply that there is not one sinner. There's not one sin they can commit, which is so heinous that God's grace is not up underneath them if they will turn to him in faith. There's no sinner capable of sinking in their sin to the point that god's grace cannot pull them out and save them and bring them into his kingdom. [01:03:33] (39 seconds)  #GraceReachesAll

Jesus dies before these other two guys, and both of them show up in heaven. One is welcomed as a son. I told you. I told you you'd be with me here in paradise, and here he is. The other guy, can you imagine the shock and horror on his face when the guy he had just finished mocking is standing as his judge and pronouncing the sentence of eternal death on him? [01:08:51] (37 seconds)  #JudgedByJesus

You may have mocked and rejected Jesus all your life despite the best efforts of your friends and your family to share the truth with you, but it's not too late to change your mind. You're still on the green side of the grass. And if that's true, you still have an opportunity. You still have hope. It's not too late to change your mind. The Bible says, today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart. Amen? [01:09:46] (30 seconds)  #NeverTooLateToTurn

What kind of savior responds to a condemned, guilty, capital crime committing criminal with that kind of grace. Our kind of savior. Jesus responds that way. He is the only savior there is, and he turns out to be the savior who is exactly the kind that we most desperately need, the savior who welcomes even dying violent criminals into his kingdom when they put their faith in him. [01:02:14] (40 seconds)  #SaviorForAll

I love this story because there were three crosses on the hill that day, and on the in the middle hung the savior of the world, and both of the men on either side of him made different choices. One chose to remain hardened in his sin and evil all the way to the end, and the other shows deep, wild, magnificent grace from the savior of the world who died right next to him. [01:02:56] (37 seconds)  #ChoicesAtTheCross

This is a penetrating question. It gets to the heart of the issue. When he asked, don't you fear God? He's asking this guy. He's saying essentially, brother, you are about to die as a criminal. Aren't you worried at all about what happens after this? In other words, don't you fear that dying like a as a criminal like this will mean facing an eternity of God's judgment after this? I mean, this kind of death has to weigh heavily on any account of a ledger of whether or not you're a good person. Right? [00:56:10] (41 seconds)  #DoYouFearGod

And the horrible irony of this story is that even though they correctly identify him, they do so not in faith, but in mockery, in rejection, in unbelief as a way of increasing the pain they are deliberately inflicting on the one person in all history who had never committed anything whatsoever that was deserving of any kind of punishment. They challenge him to save himself, promising that if he'll only find a way to escape from the cross, then surely they will believe. After all, that would be a miracle. [00:50:20] (38 seconds)  #MockedNotBelieved