Remember the Cross

In one of my Bible classes recently, the professor was talking about Mel Gibson's movie, The Passion of the Christ." He brought up the point how the movie focused on Jesus' flogging so much — the blood, and flesh, and lashes, and suffering, and screaming— and then it kind of looked at the cross almost as if it were an after thought. But the Bible doesn't really go into much detail about Jesus' flogging. The main focus in the Bible is the cross and Jesus separating himself from God to take on the sins of the world. Wait a minute. Can we just stop and think about that for a second?

Jesus Christ, a simple man, like you and me
took on
EVERY
sin of the world. Past, present, and future.

You know what I have to say, flog him all you want. It is absolutely nothing compared to the cross and taking on the sins of the world. Jesus separated himself from God and said: "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" Translation: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46).

And he did it because he loves us. That's the only reason.
We are his beloved.