Throughout human history, thousands and thousands and thousands of people, men and women, have been crucified on crosses and on trees across many nations.
Their names are not recorded, mentioned in history books, nor even known by people living today. Many had wives and husbands, children and grandparents. They had dreams and goals of their own, but their lives were taken from them, for they were robbed of their right to live by cold-bloodied killers.
Like us, they wanted to live, build homes, be happy, and perhaps travel from place to place, or to see the world.
Like us, they wanted to be free: free to stay, free to go, free to explore, and free to invent and be creative, to write poetry or songs or paint portraits.
Like us, many of them did not want to harm other people. Perhaps many of them were not thieves and bandits.
Like us, they wanted to live.
Looking back, and from the lack of information, it is as if they never lived at all, for the stories of their lives and names have vanished from the face of the earth.
Over these thousands of years of human crucifixions, do you think it is an accident that the name of only one person in the world is remembered for His death by crucifixion?
Unlike all the others, the story of Jesus is recorded. We know about His birth, we know about His parents, and we know about His travels and relationships with people. We know about the stories He told. We know about the people who liked Him, and we know about the people who wanted Him to die, even though He never did anything worthy for death by crucifixion. Is this knowledge to us simply an accident?
Over the past two thousands years, Jesus has been talked about more than any person who has ever lived. Is this, also, simply an accident?
Is it an accident that you can go on the internet and read about Jesus more than any other person?
It is not an accident that God reveals the name of Jesus to the minds of people and more than any other person.
Since Christ is not an accident, it would be wise to pay attention.
God's revelation of Jesus Christ is a message from Heaven. God wants you to know His only begotten Son.
If you study your genealogy, it is possible that people in your family tree were killed by crucifixion? These would haven been your blood kin.
Is it also possible that people in your family tree were martyrs for Jesus Christ? These, too, would have been your blood kin, dying for Christ.
Their names are not recorded, mentioned in history books, nor even known by people living today. Many had wives and husbands, children and grandparents. They had dreams and goals of their own, but their lives were taken from them, for they were robbed of their right to live by cold-bloodied killers.
Like us, they wanted to live, build homes, be happy, and perhaps travel from place to place, or to see the world.
Like us, they wanted to be free: free to stay, free to go, free to explore, and free to invent and be creative, to write poetry or songs or paint portraits.
Like us, many of them did not want to harm other people. Perhaps many of them were not thieves and bandits.
Like us, they wanted to live.
Looking back, and from the lack of information, it is as if they never lived at all, for the stories of their lives and names have vanished from the face of the earth.
Over these thousands of years of human crucifixions, do you think it is an accident that the name of only one person in the world is remembered for His death by crucifixion?
Unlike all the others, the story of Jesus is recorded. We know about His birth, we know about His parents, and we know about His travels and relationships with people. We know about the stories He told. We know about the people who liked Him, and we know about the people who wanted Him to die, even though He never did anything worthy for death by crucifixion. Is this knowledge to us simply an accident?
Over the past two thousands years, Jesus has been talked about more than any person who has ever lived. Is this, also, simply an accident?
Is it an accident that you can go on the internet and read about Jesus more than any other person?
It is not an accident that God reveals the name of Jesus to the minds of people and more than any other person.
Since Christ is not an accident, it would be wise to pay attention.
God's revelation of Jesus Christ is a message from Heaven. God wants you to know His only begotten Son.
If you study your genealogy, it is possible that people in your family tree were killed by crucifixion? These would haven been your blood kin.
Is it also possible that people in your family tree were martyrs for Jesus Christ? These, too, would have been your blood kin, dying for Christ.
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