Saturday, March 23, 2013

Torture we could not bare - JESUS




Subject: Torture we could not bare

 Jesus


Jesus' Death -
60 seconds to understand
60 seconds with
God...

For the next 60
seconds,
set aside whatever you're doing
and
take this
opportunity!
Let's see if Satan can stop
this.



THE
(SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS

At the age of
33, Jesus was condemned to the death penalty.

At
the time crucifixion was the "worst" death. Only the worst criminals were
condemned to be crucified. Jesus was to be nailed to the cross by His
hands and feet.

Each nail
was 6 to 8 inches long.

The nails were driven
into His wrist.
Not into His palms as is commonly
portrayed.
There's a tendon in the wrist that
extends to the shoulder.
The Roman guards knew that
when the nails
were being hammered into the
wrist,
that tendon would tear and break, forcing
Jesus
to use His back muscles to support
himself
so that He could
breathe.

Both of His feet were nailed
together.
Thus He was forced to support Himself on
the single nail
that impaled His feet to the
cross.
Jesus could not support himself with His
legs
because of the pain, so He was forced to
alternate
between arching His back then using his legs just to continue
to breathe.
Imagine the struggle, the pain, the
suffering, the courage.

Jesus endured this reality for over 3
hours.

Yes, over 3
hours!
Can you imagine this kind of suffering?
A
few minutes before He died,
Jesus stopped
bleeding.
He was simply pouring water from his
wounds.


From common images, we see wounds to
His hands
and feet and even the spear wound to His
side...
But do we realize His wounds were actually made in his
body.
A hammer driving large nails through the
wrist,
the feet overlapped and an even large
nail
hammered through the
arches,
then a Roman guard piercing His side with a
spear.
But before the nails and the
spear,
Jesus was whipped and
beaten.
The whipping was so severe that it tore the
flesh from His body.
The beating so horrific that
His face was torn
and his beard ripped from His
face.
The crown of thorns cut deeply into His
scalp.
Most men would not have survived this
torture.

He had no more blood to bleed
out,
only water poured from His
wounds.
The human adult body contains about 3.5
liters
(just less than a gallon) of
blood.


Jesus poured all 3.5 liters of his
blood;
He had three nails hammered into His
members;
a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond
that,
a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His
chest.


All these without mentioning the
humiliation
He passed after carrying His own cross
for almost
 2
kilometers,
while the crowd spat in his face and
threw stones
(the cross was almost 30 kg of weight,
only for its higher part,
where His hands were
nailed).


Jesus had to endure this
experience,
so that we can have free access to
God.

So that our sins could be "washed"
away.
All of them, with no
exception!


JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR
US!


He died for us! It is easy to pass
jokes
and false witness statements by e-mail,
but
when it comes to God,
sometimes we feel ashamed to
forward to others
because we are worried of
what
they may think about
us.

60 seconds with
God...

For the next 60 seconds, set aside what
you're doing
and take this
opportunity!
Let's see if Satan can stop
this.

All you have to do
is:

1. Simply pray for the person who
sent
this message to
you:

2. Then, send this message to 10
people...
More if you
wish.

3. 10 people will pray for you and you
will make
that many people pray to God for other
people.

4. Take a moment to appreciate the power
of God
in your life, for doing what pleases
Him.

If you are not ashamed to do this,
please,
follow Jesus' instructions He said (Matthew
10:32 & 33):
"Everyone therefore who
acknowledges me before others,
I also will
acknowledge before My Father in heaven;
but
whosoever denies Me before others,
I also will deny
before My Father in heaven."

If you believe,
send this message...
But send it only if you believe
in
Jesus Christ as your Lord and
Savior.

Yes, I love
God.
He is my source of life and my
Savior.
He keeps me alive day and
night.


Without Him, I am nothing, but with
Him
"I can do all things through Him who strengthens
me."
Philippians
4:13.

Send this to all those you
love.

"Peace I leave
with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the
world giveth,
give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it
be afraid"..

A friend is
someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it to you when you've
forgotten


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