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Victory Through Sorrow’s Deep Sea – Easter Message From A Poem – Part 1 Series
Contributed by Ron Ferguson on Mar 22, 2023 (message contributor)
Summary: In this 3 Part series we are going to look at Calvary and draw material from Isaiah and the Psalms and the Gospels. The messages are focussed on the Trial and what happened at Calvary. They will all be connected with a poem of mine. This is a serious message because Calvary is so pivotal.
[[That farce of a trial then concluded.
He was taken without delay.
Almost all Jewry was deluded;
To Calvary, they made their way.]]
Do you hate injustice? I hate it with a vengeance. That trial in Pilate’s hands was a total miscarriage of justice and in the end, all Pilate wanted to do was to wash his hands of the whole affair. Legal systems all over the world see so much injustice that it is a disgrace, and nothing will be correct until the Lord returns at the Second Coming. As for Pilate, today he is gnashing his teeth in darkness.
Jesus was taken without delay to Golgotha, led out of Jerusalem to the great delight of the chief priests. There were so many emotions that day – consider how it was for Mary, and the disciples, and the faithful ones who had come to accept Jesus as the King of the Jews and waited for the setting up of the Kingdom, but now he was to be executed.
I know Catholicism accepts the so-called stations of the cross but I reject that because it is not biblical, only from distorted tradition. What we do know is that the journey to the place of execution was exhausting – {{Luke 23:26 “When they led Him away, they laid hold of one Simon of Cyrene, coming in from the country, and PLACED ON HIM THE CROSS to carry behind Jesus.”}} They would not have coerced a stranger unless the Lord was not capable in human strength, of carrying the cross. Remember Jesus was perfect God and perfect Man, but He knew the frailties of the human body and He had been beaten and abused.
I inferred that the Jews had been deluded. Delusion is serious and Satan is the master of delusion. The world today is deluded over a number of things and climate is chief among them.
[[More than others, see that body marred.
Behold Him on that cross of grief.
Hung there; from the human race debarred.
See for Him, there was no relief.]]
Have you ever thought about this verse – {{Isaiah 52:14 “Just as many were astonished at you, My people, so His appearance WAS MARRED MORE THAN ANY MAN, and His form more than the sons of men.”}} What this verse says is that my Lord was so cruelly treated and bodily marred, that there was scarcely any resemblance to a human being. His face was unrecognisable.
Commentator Delitzsch said, [[“The prophet, Isaiah, sits at the foot of the cross on Calvary, and sees the Redeemer as he hung upon the accursed tree, after he had been buffeted, and crowned with thorns, and smitten, and scourged, and crucified, when his face was covered with bruises and with gore, and his frame and features distorted with agony.”]]
Isaiah also says “He was despised and forsaken of men” (my expression “from the human race debarred”). He was rejected by men, but as many as received Him, to them He gave authority to become the children of God. The evil of men is so great that the innocent are abused and tortured, but the sins of this world are being stored up for the wrath of the Tribulation.
On the cross the Lord had no comforters, no relief. Before Him generally there was a hostile crowd and He was numbered with the transgressors. Why did He do it? He did it for YOU, for ME.
