{"id":369,"date":"2012-04-07T03:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T07:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/?p=369"},"modified":"2012-06-05T08:34:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T22:34:15","slug":"he-died-in-my-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/2012\/04\/07\/he-died-in-my-place\/","title":{"rendered":"“He died in my place”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cIt\u2019s not just about the story of the cross and how Jesus died on it, it is about belief,\u201d one of the Patpatar men told me after hearing the Gospel presentation yesterday on Good Friday. I questioned him further, \u201cBelief? Belief in what?\u201d \u201cBelief that Jesus\u2019 died to make the payment for sin,\u201d he replied. I again asked him, \u201cWhy though, why would he die to pay for sin?\u201d My Patpatar friend shook his head took a deep breath and said, \u201cHe died in my place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thank you to so many of you who have been praying for the evangelistic teaching that has been taking place in the 3 groups here among the Patpatar. Yesterday, on Good Friday, we woke up to blue skies and bright sun for the first time in nearly 2 weeks. We had good attendance for the lesson on Jesus\u2019 death, burial, and resurrection with only a few people unable to attend. Afterwards we were able to visit individually with 5 of those who had heard and all 5 of them gave clear testimony indicating their faith in Christ\u2019s death on their behalf.<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Please continue to pray for us and the Bible teachers this coming week as we follow up with others and share with those who were unable to attend yesterday.<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Pray also for the other two groups who will be taught the good news of the Gospel this coming Wednesday and next Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u00b7 Praise the Lord with us for our new brothers and sisters in Christ and for their continued growth and understanding of God\u2019s Word.<\/p>\n

In hearing the testimony of the those who had been in the \u2018clan of Satan\u2019 but entered in the \u2018clan of God\u2019 through their faith in Christ on the day we mark as the day He died, I couldn\u2019t help but think of the conversation that Jesus had with one of the two men that hung on a cross next to Him. Mark tells us that the two thieves mocked Jesus, but as some point on the cross, Luke lets us know that one of them realized that he was a sinner deserving of his punishment but that Jesus was sinless. He expressed his faith by reprimanding the other thief and asking Jesus to remember him. Jesus replied to him and said, \u201cI tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Because of His death and Resurrection, Aaron<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s not just about the story of the cross and how Jesus died on it, it is about belief,\u201d one of the Patpatar men told me after hearing the Gospel presentation yesterday on Good Friday. I questioned him further, \u201cBelief? Belief in what?\u201d \u201cBelief that Jesus\u2019 died to make the payment for sin,\u201d he replied. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3423,4,3430,3431],"tags":[321,295,677],"class_list":{"0":"post-369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-3423","7":"category-ministry","8":"category-news-article","9":"category-prayer-request","10":"tag-gospel","11":"tag-salvation","12":"tag-teaching","13":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}