A Picture of the Human Condition.

# 743- He is risen! ....He is risen indeed! Today's Du-votional comes from: Mr 15:27 With Him they also crucified two robbers, one on His right and the other on His left. 28 So the Scripture was fulfilled which says, "And He was numbered with the transgressors." This is still another fulfilled prophecy that comes from Isa 53:12. “Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.” More details of this day, written hundreds of years before it occurred! Jesus. God in the flesh placed alongside common criminals to die. It is this same chapter in Isaiah that reminds us that He “was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by 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 has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” How fitting that He would be placed alongside these men. For they are what we are, “sheep gone astray.” Most of us know the rest of their story in their encounter with Christ. Two sinners. One remorseful, the other not. One willing to receive Christ, the other rejects Him. The one with remorse, even though minutes away from death, received Christ as Lord and Savior and was with Jesus in Paradise later that day. What a picture God has painted for us on Calvary! It is a picture of the human condition! Some will receive Jesus as their King to their blessed salvation, others will reject Him to their eternal damnation. One day you and I will hang on our own cross of death. There are only two choices. One a cross of defiance, the other a cross of reliance. Which cross will you choose to hang your eternal fate on? Do you really want to put off this choice until your final hour? 2Co 6:2b says, "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. And Heb 9:27, reminds us "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment," This opportunity may never pass your way again.