Dealers Warehouse will be closed on Friday, April 2, in observance of Good Friday. We hope that you and your families have a restful weekend reflecting on the sacrifice God's Son - Jesus - made for us when He gave himself for our sins to die on the cross. We also hope that you will celebrate, together, the wonderful miracle of His resurrection on Easter Sunday.
Thank Him Now
An excerpt from Joy of My Heart by Anne Graham Lotz
Perhaps thinking to satisfy the crowd’s thirst for blood without actually going so far as to execute Jesus, Pilate had Him flogged. The flogging would have ripped the flesh off of His back, exposing His internal organs. History records that flogging victims either passed into unconsciousness, went insane, or died. The miracle is not that Jesus survived the whipping, but that He submitted to it! How easy it would have been for Him to defy them and, without cursing but in righteous judgment, send them all to hell!
Why? Why would God allow His Son to endure such physical torture? The answer had been given years earlier, when Isaiah solemnly prophesied:
“Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
But he was pierced for our transgressions;
he was crushed for our iniquities;
upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace,
and with his wounds we are healed.”
-Isa. 53:4-5, ESV
Thank Him now for bearing God’s judgment that should have been ours!
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