KEY SCRIPTURE: Joh 19:34 KJV “But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.”

The evidence that our Lord Jesus died is very significant in the message of man’s redemption from sin and Satan’s power. If Jesus did not die, then there would not have been any resurrection, and we would all be in our sins. We are saved because our Lord Jesus died and paid for our sins. Some have argued that the Lord Jesus was not dead but was taken into the tomb in an unconscious state, which he later rose up and then went to India. All these are baseless lies purported to deceive weak-minded ones. Col 2:8 KJV “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”

Our key scripture states that a spear was pierced into His side, giving out water and blood. Before he was pierced the Jews, in the light of the high sabbath, should not have anyone hanging on the cross on the sabbath, which would have defiled the land. The crucificants’ legs had to be broken so they could not move their bodies up to take in air. This killed them quickly. They broke the first person’s legs, but when they got to Jesus, they realised He was already dead. The Roman soldier, to establish that He was dead indeed pierced His side with the spear he held. The spear pierced the Lord’s heart. The heart is surrounded by a membrane called the pericardium. This membrane contains a serious matter or liquor resembling water. It prevents the surface of the heart from becoming dry by its continual motion. It was this part that was pierced as well as the tip of the spear reaching the ventricles of the heart, giving out the blood with the waterlike substance from the pericardium. This showed that He was dead indeed.

The Lord died on the cross. His death fulfilled what many prophets of old had prophesied, hundreds or a thousand years before the appearance of Jesus. Apostle Paul wrote about it this way. 1Co 15:3,4 KJV” For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:” All that Apostle Paul said is the message called the good news. Jesus died for our sins. It was through His death, that his blood washes away our sins. For one to be saved, you MUST believe that Jesus died for your sins and that He was raised to life on the third day. The next is to confess Him in truth as the Lord of your life. If you do this from a sincere heart you would be saved.

THOUGHT: YOU ARE LOST IN YOUR SINS IF YOU DO NOT BELIEVE JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS FOR YOUR SINS

FURTHER STUDIES

Gal 1:4 KJV “Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:”

Isa 53:6 KJV “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”