First Baptist Church, Andalusia
Throughout our lives history has a way of illustrating the eternal truths of God. For example during World War II the city called Dachau was associated with imprisonment and death. The Nazis built a large concentration camp there with slave labor, deprivation and death. Thousands of people were starved, shot, hanged or gassed there.
However after World War II Dachau became a different kind of camp. The former death camp was turned into a refugee center for people fleeing Communism. It became a place to find freedom. For decades Dachau was transformed from a place of death to a place of new life.
Thousands of years before the building of Dachau, there was another place of death. Calvary was known to the inhabitants of Jerusalem as a place of suffering, pain and death. At Calvary, criminals were executed for their wickedness. Death was their payment and hatred prevailed. Then on one “Good Friday” everything was changed. On that day, the “Innocent One” Jesus gave His life for the guilty. On that day, He who was blessed became cursed so that those who were cursed could be blessed. On that day, life and death were changed. On that Friday, God transformed a place of death into a place of life. Love prevailed at Calvary!
As we often sing:
“Oh, the love that drew salvation’s plan!
Oh, the grace that brought it down to man!
Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span at Calvary.
Mercy there was great and grace was free;
Pardon there was multiplied to me;
There my burdened soul found liberty,
At Calvary.”
Just as God transformed the place called Calvary, He can transform your life. The blood that Jesus shed at Calvary was shed for you. You can experience God’s love, forgiveness and life because of Jesus’ sacrifice at Calvary. Admit your sin to God, believe in Jesus as your Savior and commit your life to Him. Turn to Calvary and you will discover the love and the life for which you search.
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