The Word - March 28, 2012 - THE SON OF GOD LOVED ME

They stripped Him and put a scarlet robe on Him. They wove thorn branches into a crown and put it on his head, and they placed a reed stick in his right hand as a scepter, and they mocked him, saying Hail King of the Jews" (Matthew 29:28-29).

They 'took the reed and hit Him on the head." What vile treatment for the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! For the first time, en route to the cross, blood flowed, from His head.

"Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thrones, and the purple robe." Because He was obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, "God has highly exalted Him and given Him a name which is above every name; that, at the Name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." (Phil. 2:9)

Oh, "the exceeding greatness of His power to all of us who believe, according the working of His mighty power. When he brought about through Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenlies. "Far above all principalities, and powers, and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world but in the world to come. And has put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the Church, which is His body, the fulness of Him who fills everything." (Ephesians 1:19-23).

That head once filled with bruises is Head over all. That blood that flowed from His head is the evidence of the purchase price and His right to the title, "King of Kings and Lord of Lords," and now we can read of our title to glory because of the blood that was shed.

His outstretched, nail-pierced hands, blood trickling down, present the clear evidence of His purchase price. And what about those feet pierced at Calvary. In virtue of His life's perfect walk, holy, harmless, undefiled, and separate from sinners. He had every right to just go back to heaven as a man and leave us in our sin. But, ah, He said, I cannot go alone, so "Jesus, having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end" (John 13:1). Oh dear friends, He loved us even unto death! Surely we must love Him too!
The atoning work is done,
The victim's blood is shed;
And Jesus now has gone
His people's cause to plead.
He stands in heaven, our great High-Priest,
And bears our names upon His breast.