The Parsonal Computer

DANGEROUS CROWD

Three year old Shawn accompanied his dad to church on Easter. The father wanted his son to understand the meaning of Easter so he tried to explain the significance of the cross which hung at the front of the church.

The father said, “Jesus died because people nailed him to the cross.”

The little boy’s eyes widened as he scanned the church. He then asked his dad, “You mean THESE people?”

It is too easy to think of the death of Jesus as a distant historic event. We tend to think of this horrible event as happening way back .then and done by those barbaric people. We overlook why Jesus died.

As we begin this time of Lent, let us remember that He died for OUR sins. It was for OUR salvation that He gave His life because it was OUR sins that nailed Him there. The cross in our sanctuary reminds us of two important truths. First, that we are a dangerous crowd, capable of sin and death. And second, that we are a forgiven people because Jesus paid for our sin on that cross.

So, when you’re sitting in Church Sunday, remember as you look around: you’re sitting in a dangerous crowd, but you’re worshiping a great Savior.

“But he was wounded and crushed for our sins. He was beaten that we might have peace. He was whipped, and we were healed! All of us have strayed away like sheep. We have left God’s paths to follow our own!.. Yet the Lord laid on him the guilt and sins of us all.”
Isaiah 53:5-6 (NLT)