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The Interceding Christ :: Father, Forgive them for they know not

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On April 15, 2019

In Christian, Good Friday, Seven Sayings

Each of the seven sayings from the Cross gives us a glimpse into the nature of Jesus Christ. In the first saying, when Jesus, despite his anguish, prays for the forgiveness of those who had transgressed against him, by requesting his Father to forgive them for they did not know what they did, we see Jesus Christ – the Interceder – between God and man.

The prophet Isaiah had prophesied of the interceding Christ centuries earlier, when he recorded that Jesus’ soul would be poured out unto death and that he would be numbered with the transgressors, bearing the sin of many, and making intercession for the transgressors (Isaiah 53:12). On the Cross, this prophetic saying comes true.

Points to ponder:
Not only is Jesus the interceding Christ on the Cross, but after the Cross, upon his death and victorious resurrection, he is still the interceding Christ in heaven, making intercession for man with God, as the One mediator between God and man (1 Timothy 2:5).

And as followers of Jesus Christ (Ephesians 5:1), we must also be intercessors – standing the gap (Ezekiel 22:30) – as ambassadors of Jesus Christ, beseeching man to be reconciled with God. (2 Corinthians 5:20). Jesus Christ, the interceder gave us the model of intercession. Are you and I an intercessor for God?

Luke 23:34 (KJV)
34 Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.

Isaiah 53:12 (KJV)
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

1 Timothy 2:5 (KJV)
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

God remembered …

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On March 2, 2015

In Christian, Genesis, Through the Bible

The Bible records that Abraham got up early in the morning, after the night in which the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by brimstone from heaven, and went to the place where he had stood before the Lord who had visited him, the day before. From there he looked and saw smoke, as if rising from a furnace, over the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and from all the land in the plain. But what is interesting to note is that the Bible records that when God destroyed the cities of the plain, God remembered Abraham (his intercession and plea for keeping the righteous safe from perishing with the wicked) and saved Lot (Genesis 19:29).

Points to ponder:
For whose salvation are you and I interceding and pleading for? God is seeking for us to stand in the gap for our land so that he would not destroy it for its wickedness (Ezekiel 22:30). If God’s judgment was to fall now on mankind, can it be said, God remembered you/me and saved so and so, for we interceded for them? Think about this …

Genesis 19:27-29 (KJV)
27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

Ezekiel 22:30 (KJV)
30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.

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