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The Passion: Who Crucified Christ?
Mar 10, 2004
E. TRUMAN HERRING
Pastor, Boca Glades Baptist Church, Boca Raton

Who nailed Jesus to the tree?
Was it the Jews, or was it you and me?
I would like someone else to blame.
So I could hide my sin and shame.

But it was me, my sin and pride.
For whom the Son of God did die.
And I cannot blame Roman or Jew.
For they only did, what I too would do.

It was me that stood in the hate filled crowd.
And I too raised my voice and shouted loud.
Crucify Him, Crucify Him, away with such a one.
Even though no fault was found in all He had done.

And I followed Jesus as He carried the cross.
When He fell under the load, I felt no loss.
I saw rejection and weakness and Him I despised.
This is no King over me, He deserves to die.

As a rebel I held the hammer and nail.
And I did not know, He bore my sin and hell.
And it was me who cursed Him as He died.
I did not know He bore the Curse of mankind.

It was me who mocked, Let Him come down.
If in Him any favor, God hath found.
I, the world, and even God, had turned away.
He seemed all alone, so alone that day.

 “Father forgive them,” I heard Him cry.
 But I was deaf to why He really died.
“My God why hast thou forsaken me.”
But My Passover Lamb I could not see.

As I stood at the cross, I thought it strange.
That the Cross awoke in me a secret rage.
As though I and all the world, choose Him to hate.
And from a heart of sin, I agreed with His fate.

Christ crucified like a magnet drew out of me.
A hidden side I thought I would never see.
Things I had hidden by secret pride.
With wicked hands, I too, Christ crucified.

And in the darkness that eclipsed that hour.
I felt a Holy and convicting power.
Oh God, what had I and this world done.
Could we have rejected God’s own Son?

He cried, “It is Finished” and breathed his last.
Yet His Love embraced me and held me fast.
Two sides of the Cross, I could now see.
God’s wrath against sin, but His Love for me.

When on the third day, He rose from the dead.
I began to understand all that He had said.
The Prophecies and Promises He had fulfilled.
And my sinful heart, it stood still.

Pierced hands and feet were foretold.
And many other Prophecies if I may be so bold.
Declared Jesus the Messiah, God’s Lamb did suffice.
Not murdered not martyred, but God’s One Sacrifice.

Before Adam sinned, God had a foreordained plan.
By Christ’s death to redeem and save fallen Man. 
For as sin defeated Adam, and to all death passed.
He would defeat death, and restore Paradise at last.

You may protest, could there be another way?
No!  For only Holy God for our sin could pay.
For mercy to be offered, justice had to be satisfied.
This is the true reason, Christ had to die.

Now see the Passion of Christ on the Cross.
And thank Jesus that He paid your sin’s cost.
And humbly confess to God, I truly believe.
That when Jesus died, He died for me.

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