20/05/2026
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE OF LOVE
Suppose one of your kids had committed a capital offense, like robbery with violence, or perhaps murder, and the Court sentenced them to death.
Or maybe it was a sibling, a sister or a brother. Or perhaps a parent. Or some close relative or even a close friend.
Suppose the Court allowed them the option to live IF and only IF someone else stepped up to the guillotine - the hangman's noose - in their place.
Would you do it?
Would you take the guillotine in place of your kids, your siblings, your parents, or even your friends, when they were guilty as charged?
Would you?
Would you submit to death so that those you love, even though they were at grievous fault, may live?
Many, and likely all, would sigh deeply and say, "let it be - they asked for it. I'll have other kids, siblings, and friends."
Yet, the Christ stepped into the guillotine for our sake, so that, even though we were incorrigibly wicked sinners who deserved annihilation, we may live.
There surely can be no greater love than that!
For while we were fully immersed in sin, and condemned to eternal death, he chose to take the penalty on our behalf, so that we may live.
As the scripture testifies, there is no forgiveness of sin without the shedding of blood.
And his was the perfect sacrifice - an unblemished lamb - that took away our incorrigible sins.
And we should sin no more.
As He says:
John 3:16-21 NIV:
[16] For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
[17] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
[18] Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
[19] This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
[20] Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
[21] But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what they have done has been done in the sight of God.
