Open Air Service for Good Friday at St James today in brilliant sunshine.
They crucified him beside criminals. They nailed his hands and feet. Then they taunted him. They abused him. They insulted him.
If he really was the Messiah, if he really was the king, why did he not save himself, they said.
The truth is he chose not to.
He could have saved himself. He could have summoned an army of angels to rescue him, but he didn't.
The reason he didn't save himself was that he had come to save us.
'For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.'
It wasn't the Roman nails that held him to the cross, but his love for the world.
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