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Second Word On The Cross
What is Paradise?
PARADISE (παράδεισος, paradeisos).
A loanword from ancient Persian pairi-daeza which can mean “an enclosed space,” “park,” or “garden.”
Associated with heaven, New Jerusalem, and Christ’s dwelling place.
A very familiar verse that we have been listening over the past years about the cross and the thieves that have been put on cross together with Jesus.
And we have learnt that this scripture tells us about repentance and a promise of God.
But if we closely look into the situation in Golgotha after the crucifixion....we can summarize the following :
We look at three characters in the crucifixion.
And each person crucified gives us a lesson of what and how to respond to situations around us and to suffering of our own.
Two ways to respond to suffering
Exemplary life of Jesus.
We look at three characters in the crucifixion.
And each person crucified gives us a lesson of what and how to respond to situations around us and to suffering of our own.
The first thief
To him right and wrong, praise and blame, good and bad are of no interest: his one objective is to save his earthly skin.
He might even believe Jesus is the Messiah, the King of the Jews.
But, it's only a matter of convenience to him: he'll take anybody as king who can get him off the cross.
To him right and wrong, praise and blame, good and bad are of no interest: his one objective is to save his earthly skin.
He might even believe Jesus is the Messiah, the King of the Jews.
But, it's only a matter of convenience to him: he'll take anybody as king who can get him off the cross.
The thief had no spirit of brokenness, or guilt, or penitence, or humility.
He could only see Jesus as a possible power by which to escape the cross.
He did not see him as a king to be followed.
It never entered his mind that he should say he was sorry and should change.
The second Thief
Do not believe in false talk
Rebuke/Condemn
Repent
Accept the punishment
Believes in Jesus’s righteousness
Believes Jesus is the real King
Jesus and the Promise
PARADISE (παράδεισος, paradeisos).
A loanword from ancient Persian pairi-daeza which can mean “an enclosed space,” “park,” or “garden.”
Associated with heaven, New Jerusalem, and Christ’s dwelling place.
—The lexingham dictionary
Bass, J. W. (2016).
Paradise.
In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.),
The Lexham Bible Dictionary.
Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
Bass, J. W. (2016).
Paradise.
In J. D. Barry, D. Bomar, D. R. Brown, R. Klippenstein, D. Mangum, C. Sinclair Wolcott, … W. Widder (Eds.),
The Lexham Bible Dictionary.
Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
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Peter’s statements
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• The criminal was with Christ in paradise in the Underworld on Good Friday.
• Paul visited paradise in the third heaven where Christ currently dwells (2 Cor 12:2, 4; Phil 1:21–26; 3:20).
• The saints enter paradise in the New Jerusalem because the Lamb (Christ) will dwell there forever and ever (Rev 2:7; 21:22; 22:1–5, 14).
But in all this, the one thing that Jesus chose to mention to the repentant thief on the cross (if you can only say one thing, what do you say?): "You will be with me today."
You have to love and admire Jesus a lot for that to be a solace when you leave this life behind.
It reminds me of that great spiritual, "When I come to die, give me Jesus . . .
You can have all this world, give me Jesus."
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