{"id":39505,"date":"2026-03-06T22:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=39505"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:41:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T21:41:35","slug":"260307-thecross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/260307-thecross\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesus Himself Chose the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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God has penned a list of our faults. The list God has made, however, cannot be deciphered. The mistakes are covered. The sins hidden. \u201cHe has forgiven you all your sins:\u00a0 he has utterly wiped out the written evidence\u2026and has completely annulled it by nailing it to the cross\u201d\u00a0(Colossians 2:14 Phillips).<\/em><\/p>\n

He knew the price of those sins was death. He knew the source of those sins was you, and since he couldn\u2019t bear the thought of eternity without you, he chose the nails.<\/p>\n

The verdict behind the death was not decided by jealous Jews. With a flex of the biceps, Jesus could have resisted. No. Jesus himself chose the nails. He knew that the purpose of the nail was to place your sins where they could be hidden by his sacrifice\u2014nailed to the cross, covered by his blood.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Read more\u00a0He Chose the Nails: What God Did to Win Your Heart<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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God has penned a list of our faults. The list God has made, however, cannot be deciphered. The mistakes are covered. The sins hidden. \u201cHe has forgiven you all your sins: he has utterly wiped out the written evidence\u2026and has completely annulled it by nailing it to the cross\u201d (Colossians 2:14 Phillips).<\/p>\n

He knew the price of those sins was death. He knew the source of those sins was you, and since he couldn\u2019t bear the thought of eternity without you, he chose the nails.<\/p>\n

The verdict behind the death was not decided by jealous Jews. With a flex of the biceps, Jesus could have resisted. No. Jesus himself chose the nails. He knew that the purpose of the nail was to place your sins where they could be hidden by his sacrifice\u2014nailed to the cross, covered by his blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39507,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39505\/revisions\/39507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}