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But did you know He had the power to stop His
ordeal and overcome His tormentors at any point?
When the troops came to arrest Him, they said, “We
seek Jesus of Nazareth.” The Bible tells us He
stepped forward and spoke the awesome name of
God that was revealed to Moses—I AM (Ex. 3:14)—
and the soldiers drew back and fell to the ground
(John 18:5–6). That’s power. But He chose to lay
down His life and endure all the pain—for your
healing and my healing. That’s love!
Our Savior didn’t want you to be saved from just
your sins. If that was all He wanted to accomplish,
the shedding of His perfect, atoning blood alone
would have been enough. In the Old Testament,
when the children of Israel brought their sacrificial
animals to the priests as atonement for their sins, the
animals never suffered. They were killed humanely
using a method known today as shechita to ensure
they died swiftly and painlessly. 7
But our Lord Jesus didn’t die a quick, painless
death. He suffered like no other, going through hour
after hour of unimaginable torture before He finally
died. Look at this scripture:
[Christ] Himself bore our sins in His own
body on the tree, that we, having died to sins,