In the New Testament you can read many wonderful incidents that reveal how Jesus ‎showed Gods love to those who were in need. Take for instance the time he was ‎walking on a road to a town called Nain. Near the city gate he passed a funeral ‎procession. A widows only son had died and many folks from the town were carrying ‎him out to bury him. When he saw the poor, heart-broken widow, he had ‎‎compassion upon her, and, with the words, Young man I say unto thee arise, he raised ‎her son back to life. You can find this story in Luke chapter 7. Truly his love is like no ‎other.

Consider yet another incident. One time he passed by a man who was born blind. ‎The man lived by begging. Jesus made clay out of dirt and spittle and wiped it on his ‎eyes and told him to go wash in pool of water. The passage from John's gospel reads, He went ‎his way therefore, washed and came seeing. The story doesnt end there. The religious ‎leaders were so infuriated that such a miracle undeniably took place that they interrogated ‎both this man and his parents. The mans honest answers to their questions ‎enraged them so that they reviled him and cast him out ‎from their society. But Jesus found him, talked to him and the man came to real faith in ‎the Son of God. These are but two incidents. You can read many others also. ‎And as you read them, you will begin to understand his great love.

Reading these stories how he loved others, you will see a picture of his love. ‎But that picture can never be complete until you read the story of the cross and how he died a ‎willing victim for others. Only then will you begin to understand the immense ‎depth of his love.

‎The Lord Jesus knows that God is holy, loves goodness, and will punish evil. He knows ‎that every member of the human race has sinned and done evil, and deserves the wages of sin which is death.

This death is not only physical death, where the ‎spirit is separated from the body, but also spiritual death, where the soul is banished forever from ‎the presence of God to a place called hell. Knowing these are the wages of sin while at the ‎same time loving us with a love stronger than death, he went to the cross and willingly ‎died in the sinners place. Even though he was betrayed, and had a trial that was a ‎mockery of justice, and was nailed to the cross by cruel hands, nonetheless he was a ‎willing victim because at any time while he was hanging on the cross he could have ‎called on his heavenly Father to send angels to deliver him. It was not the nails that held ‎him to the cross but his love for sinners that bound him secure.

Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the apostle Paul wrote Christ died for our ‎sins. The waters of death and judgment, in wave after wave, passed over the Savior's  soul. He ‎sunk beneath those waves so we might be brought to safety. It is only by his death and ‎suffering on the cross that any of us will ever escape the punishment our sins deserve. ‎Jesus Christ came to earth, became a man, and died that we might live through him.

Because of his death, God is free and just to offer the gift of a free salvation to all who ‎believe on the name of his Son. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal ‎life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Paul Douglas, in an act of courage and devotion, willingly gave up his life to save his ‎son from drowning. A far greater than Paul Douglas came to this world, and in love, gave ‎up his life for you. Will you let his love go unanswered and never come to him as the ‎Savior of sinners? Or will you bow your heart to him in recognition of what he has done ‎and believe on him? It is a choice only you can make. Oh be wise, and like the blind ‎man that had received his sight, believe on the Son of God.‎