Good Friday - enjoy the opportunity for fellowship and exercise. 6/7/10/noon.
Easter Sunday WOD will be at 2PM.
33But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
34But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
35And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
36For these things were done, that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of him shall not be broken.
37And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
38And
after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but
secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away
the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and
took the body of Jesus.
John 19:33-38
19:31-37
A trial was made whether Jesus was dead. He died in less time than
persons crucified commonly did. It showed that he had laid down his life
of himself. The spear broke up the very fountains of life; no human
body could survive such a wound. But its being so solemnly attested,
shows there was something peculiar in it. The blood and water that
flowed out, signified those two great benefits which all believers
partake of through Christ, justification and sanctification; blood for
atonement, water for purification. They both flow from the pierced side
of our Redeemer. To Christ crucified we owe merit for our justification,
and Spirit and grace for our sanctification. Let this silence the fears
of weak Christians, and encourage their hopes; there came both water
and blood out of Jesus' pierced side, both to justify and sanctify them.
The Scripture was fulfilled, in Pilate's not allowing his legs to be
broken, Ps 34:20. There was a type of this in the paschal lamb, Ex
12:46. May we ever look to Him, whom, by our sins, we have ignorantly
and heedlessly pierced, nay, sometimes against convictions and mercies;
and who shed from his wounded side both water and blood, that we might
be justified and sanctified in his name.
