Responding to Jesus: The Great Exchange Begins

He was betrayed, rejected, and
abandoned.
Yet Jesus was no helpless victim
held in the grip of dark forces at
Gethsemane.
No, Jesus was – and is – the Son
of Man who came in power to
destroy the works of the devil.
The events that led to Jesus' crucifixion are not
the record of dreadful things happening to a nice
man, but the necessary, voluntary intersection of
God's love and justice for sinners like you and me.