“Just another Execution”....the Wayfarer 2/21/14

“Just another Execution”
2/21/14

“And it was the preparation of the Passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!

But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, we have no king but Caesar.

Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be crucified. And they took Jesus and led him away.”

(John 18:14-16)

Today’s dissertation comes about because of a comment earlier this day, made by a complete stranger, to a post on a social media site that depicted a beaten and bloodied Christ at the feet of his accusers before being crucified.

It was a comment quite typical of the attitude of unbelievers, and a sad reflection of how far from the facts given through scripture we have come,
 because of the teachings of men, since that execution, both from the time of that execution, and today.

The comment was to the effect that this was just another execution done for punishment, and that the race of humanity is quite good at that particular craft, so that it was in fact no great feat, and of little consequence.

What the writer of that statement communicated was a complete and utter failure to recognize that act for what it was, and no concept of the love given, by having allowed that act to take place.

Mankind IS quite proficient at acts of inhumanity, and lacking often in any compassion for our fellow human beings.

Quite often throughout history, there have been executions that were degrading, cruel, and purposeless, for any reason except for the agenda of some ruler, or the political cause of that ruler.

Murders are constantly in the news, brought about with no apparent motive, except the pleasure derived from it by the perpetrators.

Genocide of entire peoples and races still occur throughout the world as they have since the beginning of nations.

Wars, considered just and unjust still rage around this paltry ball of mud.

Innocents are killed daily on battlefields of combatants trying to force the teachings and agenda of men on others.

Still more innocents are killed daily while still in the wombs of their mothers for no reason other than the fact that their existence will be inconvenient to that mother.

Punishment for crimes committed within societies around the world are still given daily, whether humane and “just” or not.

Yes, many crucifixions took place over the time of the rule of the Roman Empire as well, to include two more that took place in conjunction with the crucifixion of my Lord.

All of these deaths have one thing in common. All were, and are perceived in the minds of mankind to be necessary to portions of the race.

All have been justified in the minds of those doing the killing, the torturing and degradation of those being killed.

This mindset goes all the way back to the time of Cain and Abel, when a brother decided that the other was deserving of death because of jealousy.

The commonality of all these, is disputed between nations whose perceptions of criminality and justice differ, and what is humane and just differs within the societies created by mankind as well.

Death, and the threat of death, is a weapon used quite well by nations, and even religions, which use it to terrorize others into acceptance of their own take on what is truth and justice.

The means of death is often symbolic to the ones dealing it out, holding its own conveyance of warning of that will of the men dealing that death, to both those murdered, and to those they seek to “win” to their way of thinking.

That commonality I spoke of continues to exist, and flourish, and shall continue to exist and flourish, until the last breath is taken by the last fallible human being on this earth.

In my treatment of the Laws given us through Moses, I stated that there is no just murder, and I stand by that statement.

Self-defense, defense of family, and defense of a nation in its attempt to continue its existence, were then, and continue to be, the only justified killings of our fellow mankind that are in fact acceptable, and then only
 when stopping that act of murder from being perpetrated upon that individual, family or nation.

It is not mankind’s purview to decide what is worthy of death, as each man will have his own concept of right and justice.

"Right", or more properly, righteousness, and what is just is the purview of no man, but of God alone, who created this being, and therefore is infallible in judgment of that being.

That commonality of the teachings of men extended to the sentence of death given to my Savior, not by the ruling Romans whose delegate would have willingly released Him, but by those whose continued perversions of the laws given by God through Moses could not allow Him to continue to show their hypocrisy, and teach the truths given by God, of His love for this fallible creature.

Unlike those who are allowed to live within our “societies” who violate the laws of those societies, Jesus committed no infraction of any of the laws whatsoever.

The sole crime committed was the exhibition and teaching of the love given by God, and the means of its attainment.

Jesus willingly accepted that execution and the beatings prior, not because of any guilt of his own, but because the guilt of mankind made mankind unacceptable to receive that love given by God the Father without atonement of blood for that guilt.

His message of redemption through repentance is as strong and valid today as it was the day He hung on the cross giving pardon to the malefactor who recognized the sinlessness of Jesus, and repented his own transgression.

It is equally unaccepted today, as it was that day, by the other transgressor who taunted Him demanding that he prove the validity of His claim of being the Son of God, by committing the sin of dishonoring the will of that Father that He suffer the death of man, so that mankind could overcome death through the sacrifice He made.

It is not just another execution, not just another punishment given by mankind that happened on Calvary, but something quite unique and of utmost importance in the concepts of “Right and Just”.

It is not the death that is of importance to that “righteousness and justice” that is to be considered when trying to comprehend the reasons for it, but that death was then overcome, that the resurrection gave hope and promise to all, who like that malefactor who recognized the Son of God for who he IS, and take note I said is not was, who from that point met the requirement of repentance given for the redemption of sin, which he took for us in place of our own malfeasance that allows the remission of sin by the Father and allows us that hope and promise of an eternity unplagued with the judgment and punishment demanded by the various sectors of the societies throughout the world whose thoughts and teachings are through the fallibilities of mankind, instead of the infallibility of God Himself.

The commonality with mankind ended with that resurrection, and the commonality with God held before having been sent to give that same commonality to mankind if accepted, began with that “punishment execution”.

It was indeed a punishment execution, not for Jesus, but for mankind itself that occurred that day.

Jesus accepted the punishment of that execution so that we need not have to do so for an eternity of separation of the love of God which he brought through His life, ministry, death and resurrection for our failures to meet the requirement necessary to be the creature intended by the Father before Adam chose willingly to separate himself from that Love by becoming the creature that comprises all of his progeny.

I close in prayer that the teachings of Christ be taken over the teachings of mankind which are still in denial of them, still ignoring them, still damning those failing to accept them to the death of soul that is the final execution of punishment demanded by the Father for failure to accept the sacrifice of His Son in their place.

I remain, yet and still that same simple sinner saved by the grace of God through that “punishment execution” given through that willingness of Christ to pay my debt despite all unworthiness. I remain also that staunch soldier in His service I was called to be, believing in my King, not mankind, defending that King and what is to be the kingdom of my permanent residence, instead of this temporary and transient ball of dirt I currently inhabit, choosing the permanence of the Righteousness and Justice of God himself over that of fallible mankind.


 I state loudly and hopefully quite clearly, the opposite of those hypocrites who crucified Him, I have no king but the King, and his name is Jesus!

2 Timothy 1:12 King James Version (KJV)

¹² For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Amen and Amen. 
the Wayfarer