THE NAILS THAT BUILT A BRIDGE BETWEEN GOD AND MAN
Hands pierced by nails... Now hold our greatest hope.
What seemed like a lost cause... was really a cause to save the lost... you and me.
The crucifixion happened because it was supposed to happen... it was no mistake. It had been foretold 700 hundred years before his coming, his murder and resurrection...
Jesus fulfilled more than 300 prophecies from the Old Testament, found in the books of Isaiah, Micah and Zechariah, in the Psalms of David, and so on.
The clearest prophecy concerning Him is found in chapter 53 of the Book of Isaiah:
He
was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
He was despised, and we held Him in low esteem.
4 Surely He took up our pain and bore our suffering,
yet we considered Him punished by God, stricken
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 on Him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the Lord has
laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open his mouth;
…. for the transgression of my people he was punished.
9 He was assigned a grave with the
wicked, and with the rich in his death,
though He had done no violence, nor
was any deceit in his mouth.
…. For
He bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors.
The enemy reveled in his defeat... only to find that the nails that pierced those hands and feet... were the nails that built a bridge between God and man.
Nails... that opened the doors to Heaven.
Those pierced hands hold a Holy Promise... that we are loved... that we are His... and that He will save us and see us through anything and everything... even death.
Christ is the Guarantor of our eternal salvation.
He died for you; He took your sins upon Himself on the Cross. Will you accept Him as your Saviour?