When the rulers came to take Jesus in Gethsemene, He displayed His power to save Himself, and showed that He was in complete control of His own arrest and crucifixion. Nevertheless, He went quietly as a Lamb to the slaughter, without complaint.
But He went on a condition: "If therefore ye seek me, let these go their way."
Though this requirement was spoken to wicked rulers, yet it is the very cry of our High Priest before the throne of God - because He has delivered Himself for our offenses, justice requires that we be let go.
It was necessary that He deliver Himself, for only by doing so could He fulfill His Father's command that He lose not a single one of His people.
How glorious it is that Our Savior, who gave Himself that His people might be let go, ever lives to see to it that the exchange He obtained for us is honored.
"Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
