REMEMBERING THE COURAGE OF JESUS ON THIS DAY.

LET US REMEMBER THE COURAGE OF A MAN THAT EVEN IN DEATH HE HUMBLED HIMSELF, HE DRANK A BITTER CUP SO THAT WE COULD DRINK A SWEET CUP, EVEN WHILE ON THE CROSS HE SHEW MERCY. LET US REMEMBER THE COURAGE OF A MAN WHO WAS BRUISED FOR OUR INIQUITY, WHO BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED. JESUS COULD HAVE CALLED AN ARMY FROM HEAVEN TO SAVE HIM BUT HE LOVED US SO MUCH THAT HE WENT ALL THE WAY AND FULFILLED THE MANDATE OF HIS FATHER. ''MEN OF COURAGE'', HOW COURAGEOUS ARE WE? ARE WE WILLING TO STAND UP FOR CHRIST? ARE WE WILLING TO BE PERSECUTED FOR HIS SAKE? PAUL SAID ''FOR ME TO LIVE IS CHRIST AND FOR ME TO DIE IS GAIN''. NOW THAT IS STANDING UP FOR CHRIST NO MATTER WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES. CHRIST CAME TO PREACH THE GOSPEL TO THE POOR. NOWADAYS WE SEE THE POOR BEING OPPRESSED, ENSLAVED, WORKING FOR LESS WAGES. EZEKIEL 22:29-30 SAYS ''THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND HAVE USED OPPRESSION, AND EXERCISED ROBBERY, AND HAVE VEXED THE POOR AND NEEDY YEA THEY HAVE OPPRESSED THE STRANGER WRONGFULLY. AND I SOUGHT FOR A MAN AMONG THEM THAT SHOULD MAKE UP THE HEDGE, AND STAND IN THE GAP BEFORE ME THE LAND THAT I SHOULD NOT DESTROY IT BUT I FOUND NONE''. WHO WILL BE COURAGEOUS LIKE MOSES WHO STOOD UP BEFORE PHARAOH, LIKE DAVID WHO STOOD BEFORE GOLIATH. GOD IS LOOKING FOR SUCH A MAN IN THESE TIMES TO CARRY THE MESSAGE OF SALVATION TO THE UTMOST PART OF THE WORLD EVEN WHERE NO CHRISTIANS HAVE PREACH BEFORE. WE NEED SOME PASSIONATE MEN TOWARDS THE PEOPLE LIKE NEHEMIAH WHO EVEN THOUGH HE WAS IN A FAR LAND HE HEARD THE BAD NEWS ABOUT HIS HOME TOWN AND HE PRAYED TO GOD ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE. WHO AMONG US WILL SAY ''HERE I AM LORD, SEND ME?''