The Hour

Every day while I was with you in the temple complex, you never laid a hand on Me. But this is your hour- and the dominion of darkness. Luke 22:53

There is a time for everything and only when Gid allows it. Jesus was protected until now. Now was the time for Him to pay the greatest price and win the greatest victory.

Darkness thought it was it's hour of victory. How wrong it was. Yes it punished the Saviour, cruelly, but that was the plan, He was the perfect sacrifice.

What darkness did not comprehend that there was power in the sacrifice to raise Christ from the dead and not before He visited Hell and preached to the captives and led a host from the clutches of darkness, all the way to glory.

How marvelous how glorious and my song shall ever be, how marvelous how wonderful is my Saviour's love for me. (Song) it was love that held Him strong, it was love that kept Him on the cross and it was love that breathed life into His still body in the tomb. It was love that went to Hell to bring back a captive host. It was love that visited faithful disciples and it was love that forgave those who failed. It is love that reaches out to the lost, it is love that redeems and cleanses from sin.

The men who came with the traitor to take Christ captive did not realise the part they played. Their final hour had come but God had a plan. Amen!!!!

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