GRACE FROM THE CROSS
Kenute P. Curry
Today you will be with me in Paradise! What a hope! What a promise! The Savior issued forgiveness on the cross as He was dying to the thief at His side.
Luke 23:43
1. IN THE LAST HOURS OF HIS LIFE, THE THIEF’S SPIRITUAL EYES WERE OPENED. IT IS A TURNING FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT AND FROM THE POWER OF SATAN TO GOD (Acts 26:18).
2. JESUS SAID “WHOEVER CONFESSES ME BEFORE MEN, I WILL CONFESS BEFORE MY FATHER IN HEAVEN” (Matthew 10:32).
3. GRACE AND TRUTH CAME THROUGH JESUS CHRIST (John 1:17).
4. THE SON OF MAN CAME TO SERVE AND GIVE HIS LIFE A RANSOM FOR MANY (Matthew 20:28).
5. JESUS’ OWN BLOOD WAS REQUIRED FOR ETERNAL REDEMPTION (Hebrews 9:12). JESUS IS CALLED A LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH OR DEFECT (1 Peter 1:19). CHRIST HAS REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW BY BECOMING A CURSE FOR US (Galatians 3:13).
6. WE HAVE THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE GIFT, BY THE GRACE OF THE ONE MAN, JESUS CHRIST (Romans 5:15). IN JESUS WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD – THE FORGIVENESS OF OUR SINS (Ephesians 1:7).
7. CHRIST LOVES US, AND HAS WASHED US FROM OUR SINS, IN HIS OWN BLOOD (Revelation 1:5).
Forgiveness – Reassurance – Paradise – all in one breathtaking moment! Assuredly – Truly – No doubt about it! Christ had graced the thief on the cross with forgiveness. It was real – He was going home with His Lord and Savior!
February 21st 2014
©2014 Kenute P. Curry. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible, © 1979, 1980, 1982, 1990, by Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
JOHN MacARTHUR – The MacArthur Study Bible, New King James Version (Nashville, Tennessee: Word Publishing, a division of Thomas Nelson Inc. 1997)
HCSB STUDY BIBLE – Holman Christian Standard Bible (Nashville, Tennessee: Holman Bible Publishers 2010)
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