”For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.“
2 Corinthians 5:21 NLT
God saw our imperfections, flaws, and mistakes. He saw our sinful nature; and how easily we can fall into sin. He saw our selfishness, our pride, our unyielding nature, our dishonesty, our ungratefulness, our wastefulness, our vanity, our unforgiving nature. He saw our hunger for earthly desires and our thirst for human approval/praise. After seeing all of this, He still loved humanity. He chose to send Jesus Christ, his only begotten to take on the pressure of our sins. “In Biblical times, farmers would put olives in the trough of a giant stone olive press, and then roll the large, heavy circular stone over them. The enormous weight of the stone crushed the olives, allowing the oil inside to pour out through a spout cut into the stone” (Dave Adamson, 2024). The rolled over the olives three times, producing oil “to anoint kings,” oil to “heal the sick,” and oil to cook, or to light lamp stands,” respectively with each turn (Dave Adamson, 2024). “In Hebrew, this sort of olive press is called a “gat shemanim” (גת שמנים pronounced “geth-sem-uh-nim”), which we translate in English as “gethsemane””(Dave Adamson, 2024). It was in the garden of Gethsemane, that Christ literally sweat drops of blood (hematidrosis), being crushed by the pressures of sins, and spilled out like oil.
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