Would you allow this happen to your son?

Allow one of his closest friends to betray him? (Matthew 26:14-15, 48-49)
Allow him to be found guilty (in an illegal court) of a crime he didn't commit, then be condemned to death? (Matthew 26:57-66)
Allow evil men to spit in his face? (Matthew 26:67)
Allow evil men to mock him and make fun of him? (Luke 22:63)
Allow evil men to beat him? (Luke 22:63)
Allow evil men to blindfold him at beat him in the face? (Luke 22:64)
Allow evil men to pull his beard out by the handful? (Isaiah 50:6)
Allow evil men to put a crown of thorns on his head and then beat him over the head with a reed (driving the thorns into his head!)? (Matthew 26:29-30)
Allow the government to whip him with a "cat-of-nine-tails" which ripped the flesh from his body? (Mark 15:15)
Allow the government to beat him so badly that he was hardly recognizable as a human being? (Isaiah 52:14)
Allow the government to drive spikes through his hands and feet as part of his public execution? (Psalm 22:16)
Allow the government to use those spikes to fix him to a cross in order to execute him?

And would you allow all of this to happen to YOUR son so that someone else could go free...someone who was guilty...someone who DID deserve it?

We would all say, "NO!!!"

However...God said, "YES!!! For there's no other way to redeem sinful man.  I will send MY SON, so that man can go free! I will send MY SON to pay for man's guilt of sin! I will send MY SON for mankind...even though they don't deserve it!"

Isaiah 53:4-11
4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
8  He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Yes, this is what Jesus did for all mankind.  He took our punishment! Oh what a great and merciful God we serve! Oh to marvel at His great love for us...to bask in his grace...Oh, my precious Lord Jesus, I am so thankful.  My soul rejoices that You love me! To spend my life praising you for what you've done will never suffice; it will never be enough! I am so unworthy of such love.  All I can do is thank you...and thank you...and thank you forever more!
Dear Jesus, with all of my heart, I thank you for loving me with such love!

Written By Bro. Dan and posted on Jesus Is The King Of Kings Forum.