Three hours is not very long ... In the span of my 23 years of life, or 18, 57, or however old you may be, three hours is only 180 minutes, not accounting for much in the span of your life on earth, and infinitely less throughout all of eternity. Right?
Wrong!!!
At one point in history, 3 fateful, dreadful and wrath-filled hours accounted for all of the ferocious, justice-filled, righteous and fiery anger of a wrathful God who by nature cannot let evil, go unpunished, to be fully, without need of any future provisions, eternally satiate & appeased!!!
For during those three hours, the God-man, Jesus the Christ, son of Joseph of Nazareth ... who walked, wearied, & breathed just as you and I do ... the Son of God, eternally by the Father's side ... who condescended, not jealous for his eternal prerogative to glory equal to that of the Father ... this man, the Man of Sorrows, the God of all creation, yet One with no home, no pillow to his name, the One esteemed smitten and without majesty among men ... hung in agony on a cross of wood, whose back, lacerated to the bone, scrapped against that rough cross as He sought His breath ... hung in spiritual torment as the Father, all good and holy, turned His face away his & let loose a wrath that slammed down in a torrent of ... a torrent of indescribable justice, finally to rest fully upon the shoulders of Jesus ... and so he remained for three hours!!!
So I ask, you can do anything for three hours? No, not you nor I, can ever, let me emphasize, EVER EVER EVER, for all ETERNITY ever satisfy God's demand for holiness. Hell will the never be enough for the unsaved soul be able to pay back his debt to the Father .. and what will never be accomplished for an unbelieving soul ... was fulfilled in Christ, the eternal Son, in three hours!!!
Take it in.
My humble, and extremely grateful praise is to Christ Jesus alone, who today is yet alive, to the glory of God. Amen and amen.
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