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𝓙𝓮𝓼𝓾𝓼 𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓽 𝓲𝓼 𝓚𝓲𝓷𝓰 👑

[✞ @bornagainsteph]

In 1986, The American Medical Association published an article titled "The Physical Death of Jesus Christ". It details the entire process of Jesus' trial to His death on the cross.

In Luke 22, before Jesus is arrested, it is written that He was in great distress & sweating blood. Although rare, it is recognized as Hematidrosis, caused by high amounts of stress.

At the time, the crucifixion was considered the worst death for the worst of criminals. But this is not all Jesus faced. He endured whipping so severe that it tore the flesh from His body. He was beaten so horrific that His face was torn & His beard ripped.

A crown of thorns, 2-3 inches long cut deeply into His scalp. The leather whip used to flog Him had tiny iron balls & sharp bones. The balls caused internal injuries while the sharp bones ripped open His flesh. His skeletal muscles, veins, & bowels we're exposed, causing major blood loss. Most men do not survive this kind of torture. After Jesus was severely flogged, He was forced to carry His own cross while people mocked & spat on Him.

Crucifixion was a process meant to instill excruciating pain, creating a slow & agonizing death. Nails as long as 8 inches were driven into Jesus' wrists & feet. The Roman soldiers knew the tendon in the wrists would tear & break, forcing Jesus to use His back muscles to support Himself to breathe. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the courage..Jesus endured this reality for 3 hours!

The Gospel of John writes that after Jesus' death, a Roman soldier pierced His side with a spear & blood & water came out. Scientists explain that from hypovolemic shock, the rapid heartrate causes fluid to gather in the sack around the lungs & heart. The gathering of fluid in the membrane around the heart is called Pericardial effusion & the lungs, Pleural effusion.

To the world, Christianity is as foolish as it can get. They believe it's for the weak. But when you are confronted by the reality of the cross, it's clearly not a pretty sight. It is brutal & horrific.

This is the weight Jesus carried. The weight of the sins of the world, all so that we can live. God's wrath is fully satisfied in Jesus. This is what it took. Repent & believe! Jesus is “God among us” in the flesh. Jesus is our Savior. Jesus loves you so much, He went through this spiritual and physical punishment for your sins and mine.

Jesus is LORD, Almighty God, Everlasting Father.

[✞ @bornagainsteph]

@GordonLarsen_ Amen!!!

[✞ @bornagainsteph]

“One of my friends…He goes, I just can’t believe in a God that would send me to hell just because I don’t believe in Him.

I said, Why is that?

And he goes, Because that’s an ultimatum. Believe in Jesus or go to hell. That sounds manipulative.

I said, Let me ask you something. If a building is already on fire and someone kicks the door open and says, Come out, this is the only way, is that an ultimatum, or is it a rescue?

He said, What do you mean?

I said, Well, you were already going to hell. I was already going to hell. That’s not God being cruel. That’s humanity choosing sin, and that’s justice.

God does not send innocent people to hell. The fact is, there are no innocent people. The standard is perfection. Not better than your neighbor. Not mostly good. Perfection.

I asked him, Have you ever lied? Have you ever lusted? Have you ever hated someone? Have you ever been prideful?

He said, Yeah.

I said, Well, then you’re guilty. I said, To be honest, I have too. We’re all guilty.

And he goes, So you’re telling me it’s believe or just burn?

And I said, No. It’s guilty but rescued. You weren’t standing on neutral ground and God came up and just shoved you toward the fire. You were already falling, and He caught you before you hit the ground.

Jesus didn’t come to threaten you. He came to take your sentence. The Cross was not an ultimatum. It was a substitution.

Justice says the wage of sin is death, but love says, I’ll pay it for you.

A friend asked me, But why make belief the condition?

And I said, Because love can’t be forced. Salvation is not a hostage situation. It’s a gift. If someone pays your debt, you still have to accept it. If you refuse it, the debt doesn’t disappear.

God is not saying, Believe in Me or I’ll torture you. He’s saying, You’re already dying. I made a way. Take it.

Hell is not proof that God is cruel. The Cross is proof that He’s not.

And if you’re wrestling with that same question, it means the door is still open.”

- I didn’t write this, but I agreed wholeheartedly with it and had to share it from another platform.

[✞ @bornagainsteph]

@JamesDa10599361 Amen! Thank you Jesus!

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@crypto_guyAJ Amen! He is a loving Father!

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@Revealed77 Yes! Absolutely!

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@adewolaadekunl1 Amen! God is good!

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@IcePickPetey ‼️

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@pray2pesci @tcunderdahl Repentance of sin and asking for forgiveness is a choice. You have free will.

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@BibleU777 100%!

[✞ @bornagainsteph]

@Dinoslb Praise the Lord!

[✞ @bornagainsteph]

@Jmike96Mike Exactly!

[✞ @bornagainsteph]

@DynastyDawk Amen!!

[✞ @bornagainsteph]

@JorgeBaez432934 You should! I got the text in this tweet from a sister in Christ who shared it on Facebook.

[Renatta Oxendine @Renatta]

The single greatest event in all of human history was the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

[NATE BELMAR ⛩ @MRB3LMAR]

Jesus is the only way ☦️

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

“In the last days you will see the difference between the righteous and the wicked, between those who serve God and those who do not.”

- Malachi 3:18

[Chad Prather @WatchChad]

“Satan has deceived 1/3 of the angels, imagine what he is capable of doing with a generation that does not read the Bible."

— Charles Spurgeon

[🗡𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙 & 𝕸𝖊𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖔𝖎𝖆🗡 @I_Rhy_]

4 years ago I was taking 7 hits of acid every 2 weeks to "gain knowledge"
I was watching porn multiple times a day.
I was hateful and angry.
I was depressed and a cutter.
I hated the world around me but.
Most importantly I hated myself.
Having a wife didn't change that.
Infact I got her to start taking acid with me and smoking a lot of weed.
I got her to start watching porn.
Having children didn't change this.
I still did acid every 2 weeks.
I still watched porn and hated my self.
One night Jesus encounterd me and changed all of that.
I am no longer a slave to lust.
I am no longer a slave to craving power and knowledge.
I am no longer a slave to my old self because HE broke my chains.
Thank you Jesus!!!

[Anchored Soul @anchoredsoul0]

I was a staunch atheist, and then God supernaturally transformed me.

• I claimed there was zero evidence for God.

• I read Darwin, Sagan, Hitchens, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. I admired them all.

• I believed religion was invented to control people and cope with death.

• I spent hours with Christians in person, trying to convince them that science and evolution didn’t point to God and that religion was a myth.

• I sometimes mocked Christianity to their faces.

• I told former atheists they were never true atheists.

• I often asked theists, “Can you prove God exists?” and “Which God?”

• I studied evolutionary biology and believed life evolved through billions of years of unguided natural selection.

• Then one day, God—the Living God and eternal Creator of all things—began drawing me.

• For months, I felt His presence and pull daily and saw Him in my mind’s eye. I initially dismissed it as a hallucination, but it persisted. It became clear I was having a supernatural experience, the very kind I had once dismissed or mocked in others.

• I innately understood Him as the God of the Bible.

• God drew me to Scripture, where I encountered the truth of Jesus Christ.

• I believed, and the Holy Spirit supernaturally transformed me from within.

• I was comfortable and confident in my atheism with no intention of leaving.

• Once I encountered the truth, there was no returning to the lies.

• My life has completely changed and I have been made a new creation.

Since then, my relationship with the Living God has only grown stronger.

God exists. The Bible is true. Jesus is the only Way.

If you feel even the slightest call from God, don’t harden your heart.

Turn toward Him and see what happens.