The Passion of Christ - Memory Monday

Passion week is the perfect time to read Isaiah 53.

I would also suggest you read the Passion of Christ this week. Not from someone's retelling, but get out your Bible and read.

Matthew 26 & 27
Mark 14 &15
Luke 22 & 23

John adds some of our favorite teachings of Jesus in his telling of the last events of Jesus' life. The last supper is told in John 13.
Here are some favorite verses from John 14-17
"Let not your hearts be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.
"I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
"I will pray the Father and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever - the Spirit of Truth"
"If anyone loves Me he will keep My word"
"I am the vine, you are the branches"
"This is My commandment, that you love one antoehr as I have loved you."
"Great er love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends."
"when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth"
"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace"
"And this is eternal live, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent"

Then we see John's account of Christ's Passion in chapters 18 & 19.

If you can't wait until Sunday to read the exciting ending, read Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24 or John 20!

Our Memory Monday verses have been from Isaiah 53 which is his foretelling of Christ's Passion. We've learned (or at least read) verses 3 & 4. Here are verses 5 & 6.

5.But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities ; The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, And by His scourging we are healed.


6.All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way ; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.
 

O Sacred Head

Besides being Good Friday, today is J.S. Bach's birthday. He is one of the greatest composers and church musicians of all time. For over 250 years this lovely chorale has helped followers of Jesus focus on and meditate on His suffering. I pray you have had a blessed Good Friday and have spent a little time today reflecting on God's incredible love and Christ's sacrifice.

Isaiah 53:
3.
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
4.
Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted.
5.
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
6.
We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.