{"id":28054,"date":"2023-09-07T12:29:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T19:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2023-maderight-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:15:54","slug":"2023-cancel","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/gospel-express\/2023-cancel\/","title":{"rendered":"He Canceled the Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">By Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>He Canceled the Record<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28055 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cancel-2-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cancel-2-274x300.jpg 274w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cancel-2.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How would you feel if a list of your weaknesses were posted so that everyone, including Christ himself, could see?\u00a0Yes, Christ has chronicled your shortcomings.\u00a0And yes, that list has been made public.\u00a0But you\u2019ve never seen it. Neither have I.<\/p>\n<p>Come with me to the hill of Calvary. Watch as soldiers shove the carpenter to the ground and stretch his arms against the beams.\u00a0One presses a knee against a forearm and a spike against a hand. Jesus turns his face toward the nail just as the soldier lifts the hammer to strike it.<\/p>\n<p>Couldn\u2019t Jesus have stopped him?\u00a0Why? Why didn\u2019t Jesus resist?\u00a0Through the eyes of Scripture we see what others missed but Jesus saw. Colossians 2:14 says, \u201cHe canceled the record that contained the charges against us. He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ\u2019s cross.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28056 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cancel-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cancel-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cancel-1-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cancel-1-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cancel-1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cancel-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>How Wide Is God\u2019s Love?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28057 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cancel-3-e1694115978322.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s nice to be included. You aren\u2019t always. Universities exclude you if you aren\u2019t smart enough.\u00a0Businesses exclude you if you aren\u2019t qualified enough. And sadly, some churches exclude you if you aren\u2019t good enough. But though they may exclude you, Christ<em>\u00a0includes<\/em>\u00a0you.\u00a0When asked to describe the width of his love, he stretched one hand to the right and the other hand to the left and had them nailed in that position so you would know he died loving you.<\/p>\n<p>Surely there has to be a limit to this love.\u00a0You\u2019d think so, wouldn\u2019t you?\u00a0But David the adulterer never found it.\u00a0Paul the murderer never found it.\u00a0Peter the liar never found it.\u00a0When it came to life, they hit bottom.\u00a0But when it came to God\u2019s love, they never did.\u00a0How wide is God\u2019s love? Wide enough for the whole world, and you\u2019re included.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28058 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/2-e1694116020692.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":28056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"portfolio_entries":[29],"class_list":["post-28054","portfolio","type-portfolio","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_entries-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/28054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/28054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28059,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio\/28054\/revisions\/28059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28054"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_entries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_entries?post=28054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}