Bought With His Blood
(Playing ~ "Calvary's Love")
One day Satan and Jesus were having
a conversation. Satan had just come from
the Garden of Eden, and he was gloating and boasting.
"Yes, sir, I just caught the
world full of people down there. Set me a trap, used bait
I knew they couldn't resist. Got 'em all ! "
"What are you going to
do with them?" Jesus asked.
Satan replied, "Oh, I'm gonna
have fun! I'm gonna teach them how to marry and
divorce each other, how to hate and abuse each other, how
to drink and smoke and curse.
I'm gonna teach them how to invent guns and bombs and
kill each other.
I'm really gonna have fun!"
"And what will you do when you
get done with them?" Jesus asked.
"Oh, I'll kill 'em," Satan
glared proudly.
"How much do you want for them?"
Jesus asked.
"Oh, you don't want those
people. They ain't no good. Why, you'll take them and
they'll just hate you. They'll spit on you, curse you and
kill you!!
You don't want those people!!"
"How much?" He asked again.
Satan looked at Jesus and sneered,
"All your tears, and all your blood."
Jesus said, "DONE!"
Then He paid the price.
And They Crucified Him
(A medical doctor provides a physical description.)
~~ Warning ~~
This is quite graphic.
The cross is placed on the
ground and the exhausted man is quickly thrown
backwards with his shoulders against the wood. The
legionnaire feels for the depression at the front of
the wrist. He drives a heavy, square wrought-iron
nail through the wrist deep into the wood. Quickly he
moves to the other side and repeats the action, being
careful not to pull the arms too tightly, but to
allow some flex and movement.
The cross is then lifted into
place. The left foot is pressed backward against the
right foot, and with
both feet extended, toes down, a nail is driven
through the arch of each, leaving the knees flexed.
The victim is now crucified.
As he slowly sags down with more
weight on the nails in the wrists, excruciating fiery
pain shoots along the fingers and up the arms to
explode in the brain -- the nails in the wrists are
putting pressure on the median nerves. As he pushes
himself upward to avoid this stretching torment, he
places the full weight on the nail through his feet.
Again he feels the searing agony of the nail tearing
through the nerves between the bones of his feet. As
the arms fatigue, cramps sweep through his muscles,
knotting them deep relentless, and throbbing pain.
With these cramps comes the inability to push himself
upward to breathe. Air can be drawn into the lungs
but not exhaled. He fights to raise himself in order
to get even one small breath.
Finally, carbon dioxide builds
up in the lungs and in the blood stream, and the
cramps partially subsided. Spasmodically, he is able
to push himself upward to exhale and bring in life-giving
oxygen.
Hours of limitless pain, cycles
of twisting, joint-renting cramps, intermittent
partial asphyxiation, searing pain as tissue is torn
from his lacerated back as he moves up and down
against rough timber. Then another agony begins: a
deep, crushing pain deep in the chest as the
pericardium slowly fills with serum and begins to
compress the heart.
It is now almost over. The loss
of tissue fluids has reached a critical level. The
compressed heart is struggling to pump heavy, thick,
sluggish blood into the tissues. The tortured lungs
are making frantic effort to gasp in small gulps of
air. He can feel the chill of death creeping through
his tissues.
Finally, he allows his body to
die. All this the Bible records with the simple
words, "
...and they crucified Him....
" Mark 15:24.
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