What about this Jesus? What love can match His love? For a second let us disregard His miraculous birth and His miraculous untainted life and focus on His hour of Passion. There has been no experience in all the history of the universe to compare to what He went through.
It was as though the whole of the demonic force under Satan had swirled down like a huge tornado and caught up the frail body of Jesus in its vortex and then slammed Him against the iron wall of the venom and hatred of demons and men. Jesus was left horribly crushed and without life or hope. Thus God and men and demons discarded Him, without life or hope, on the trash heap of history, in the depths of His own personal hell.
But the love of the Father who, although He had rejected Jesus when Jesus took on Himself the sins of the world, could not leave Jesus there. It sought for Jesus in the fiery depths of hell and summarily plucked Him out of it in a breathtaking show of power and love and the triumph of the inexorable will of God.
It is very clear to all believers and it will one day be similarly clear to all unbelievers: Neither Mohammed nor Confucius nor Siddhartha Gautama (the founder of Buddhism) nor any other spiritual leader can dare to match himself with the divine Personage of Jesus. It would be as though one would place a lit candle directly in front of the Sun. The light of the candle could not be seen for the terrible brightness of the Sun and the candle would be instantly and irreversibly destroyed.
“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Heb 10:31)
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