Joel M Bradshaw

41So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him [Jesus], saying, 42“He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”–Matthew 27

…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. (Romans 3:23-25a)

1. There is a great irony here.
2. If Jesus saved Himself, and came down from the cross, He couldn’t save you or me.
3. I have the same problem when I watch movies about Jesus that show Him bloodied and broken at His crucifixion.
4. I will say in my heart, “Don’t you do that to my Jesus.”
5. The irony again is unless Jesus suffered and died, He would not be my Jesus.
6. My friend, you either trust Jesus alone for your salvation or you do not.
7. A good question to ask yourself here is if you are like the mocking religious leaders. Do you set conditions on Jesus in order for Him to be God? As if Jesus must meet every one of your terms before you will submit to Him!–JMB