+SUFFERING + OF + THE + CROSS +
Many people don't know that
pain and suffering our Lord, Jesus Christ went through for us...because of the brutality,crucifixion was given a
sentence to only its worst offenders of the law.Thieves, murderers, and rapists would be crucified. Yet, here Jesus
was being crucified between two hardened criminals... What did Jesus do? Did he murder anyone? Did he steal anything? The
answer as we all know is NO!! Jesus did nothing to deserve this type of death, yet he went willing to die,
in between two thieves, so that we might be saved. And there, in between the sinners, was our slain savior for our
sins.
See, how the crucifiction
effects on the body according to a medical practitioner.
The cross is placed on
the ground and the exhausted man is quickly thrown; backwards with his shoulders against the wood. The legionnaire
feels for the depression at the front of the wrist. He drives a heavy, square wrought iron nail through the wrist deep
into the wood. Quickly he moves to the other side and repeats the action, being careful not to pull the arms too tightly,but
to allow some flex and movement. The cross is then lifted into place. The left foot is pressed backwards against
the right foot, and with both feet extended, toes down, a nail is driven through the arch of each, leaving the knees
flexed. The victim is now crucified.
As he slowly sags down
with more weight on the nails in the wrists, excruciating fiery pain shoots along the fingers and up the arms to
explode in the brain- the nails in the wrists are putting pressure on the median nerves. As he pushes himself upward
to avoid this stretching torment, he places the full weight on the nail through his feet. Again he feels the searing
agony of the nail tearing through the nerves between the bones of his feet. As the arms fatigue, cramps sweep through
his muscles, knotting them deep relentless, throbbing pain. With these cramps comes the inability to push
himself upward to breathe. Air can be drawn into the lungs but not exhaled. He fights to raise himself in
order to get even one small breath.
Finally, carbon dioxide
builds up in the lungs and in the blood stream,and the cramps partially subside. Spasmodically, he is
able to push himself upward to exhale and bring in life-giving oxygen. Hours of limitless pain,cycles of twisting,
joint wrenching cramps, intermittent partial asphyxiation, searing pain as tissue is torn from his lacerated back
as he moves up and down against rough timber. Then another agony begins: a deep, crushing pain deep in the chest
as the pericardium slowly fills with serum and begins to compress the heart.It is now almost over-the loss of tissue
fluids has reached a critical level-the compressed heart is struggling to pump heavy, thick, sluggish blood into
the tissues-the tortured lungs are making frantic effort to gasp in small gulps of air. He can feel the chill of death creeping
through his tissues...Finally, he can allow his body to die... All this the Bible records with the simple words,
"and they crucified Him" (Mark 15:24).
What a painful experience
our Lord Jesus gone through the cross for our Salvation? Oh! Marvellous love it is!!
SEVEN VERSES ON THE CROSS
1. Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know
not what they do (Luke 23:34).
2. And Jesus said unto
him, Verily I say unto thee, today
shalt thou be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43).
3. When Jesus therefore
saw his mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then
saith he to the the deciple, Behold
thy mother! And from that hour that deciple unto his own home(John 19:26-27).
4. And about the ninth
hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli,
Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? (Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34).
5. After this, Jesus
knowing thal all things where now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst (John 19:28).
6. When Jesus therefore
had received the vinegar, he said, it is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost (John 19:30).
7. And when Jesus had
cried with a loud voice, he said, Father,
into thy hands I commit my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost
(Luke 23:46
