Salvation through the Cross (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not by our works trying to live by the law all of us falling short only by the grace of ...
Not by our works trying to live by the law all of us falling short only by the grace of ...
Was the darkness beginning at noon the shadow of God God turning his back unable to watch his son tortured ...
There in their presence Christ answering the charge boldly proclaiming his identity fulfilling all prophecy the Messiah in their midst ...
No cries of hosanna no hail to the king palm boughs not waving no sound of singing greeting the Lord ...
The words of the apostle the writer of these words bringing a powerful message hope for all of us The ...
Christ is risen risen in victory up from the grave, alive, seated at the right hand just as on that ...
The righteous, the leaders in the things that he said their power crumbling as the people came to believe Arousing ...
In the dead of night the wee small hours people fast asleep the leaders trying the Lord to remain in ...
None of the elders, the priests, the scribes the Sanhedrin that night None with the courage to speak to stop ...
Seeing what they would not wanting to be blind to deny the possibility that the prophecy had been fulfilled that ...
Christ standing before them in the middle of the night the Passover fading his prayers in the garden not in ...
Prayerfully hoping that I would ever be faithful following the true message of scripture seeing what they could not Christ ...
Sentenced, in a trial upside down held in secret, in the night sentenced to death for speaking the truth they ...
In the dock that night a singular defendant God of the people being accused of blasphemy not in the pillar ...
In Claiming His Name holy and true the die cast and the judgment made the corruption of the leaders plain ...
The leaders, those in power blind to the truth that the Messiah had come unable to accept to see him ...
Standing before the leaders silent before the false testimony resolute, knowing the true the son of God, of man In ...
A false accusation lies before the Sanhedrin blamed for blasphemy when he only spoke the word of God the truth ...
Falsely accused trumped up charges claims that would not stick the lies of the witnesses not holding water Falsely accused ...
Unfairly accused in the mockery of the trial in secret, in the night the righteous acting unjustly Scheming to catch ...
By their action their treachery, deceit condemning the Christ God come to earth The leaders, the experts the ones who ...
Denying his divinity the truth of his nature the righteous of the people condemning God to death Standing in judgment ...
Christ before them the living God standing in their presence on a path, silent submitting to their power Remaining silent ...
God, the prisoner standing in the dock accused, before the righteous quietly hearing their abuse The lies, false accusations in ...
We have the opportunity the choice to make in our own time seeing what they would not see the Messiah, ...
In getting ready for the day the worship, the sermon the message on this gray, rainy day appropriate somehow knowing ...
Trembling in the darkness after the words he had shared telling us to remember him his sacrifice for each of ...
Speaking truth agonizing, painful truth speaking truth, his true fear honestly, openly Christ in the garden, Gethsemane crying out to ...
Open to the truth of our sin our need for God's saving grace the log in my eye my focus ...
In the beginning, claiming Isaiah something different, about his ministry in the asserting, the fulfillment setting a course a collision ...
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