Your Life Is About To Change!

You are not here on this website by chance. You have been drawn here.  Even now, you can feel it, as you read these words. You are here to learn a Truth. This is the greatest Truth there is and that can be found.

There was a man named Pilate that lived many years ago. He was a Roman Prefect. His domain was Jerusalem. One day, he woke up and all was normal and then as the day went on…it changed drastically. In fact, that one day determined the sum of his entire life.

It was the day that Pilate MET the Truth.

I imagine him sitting there in his dining hall, being served his sumptuous meal. He was being waited on hand and foot. His wife was beginning to tell him about a dream she had and they were interrupted by throngs of crowds beginning to shout.

Out of all of the territories that Rome was occupying, this was one of the most volatile and it was of utmost importance to keep the peace here so that he wouldn’t quite literally lose his head.

A servant ran in…panting and looking concerned.

“A riotous crowd is gathering outside sire, I apologize for interrupting your meal” “The Priests demand an audience, they say that it is imperative to keep the peace!”

Pilate dropped his fork and he and his wife exchanged looks of tension.

“ I am sorry my dear, but I must go!”

With a curt nod of her head…he tore out of the dining hall, his robes billowing behind him. As he walked outside….

They led Yeshua from Kayafa to the governor’s headquarters. By now it was early morning. They did not enter the headquarters building because they didn’t want to become ritually defiled and thus unable to eat the Pesach meal.  So Pilate went outside to them and said,

“What charge are you bringing against this man?” 

They answered, “If he hadn’t done something wrong, we wouldn’t have brought him to you.”  Pilate said to them,

“You take him and judge him according to your own law.” The Judeans replied,

“We don’t have the legal power to put anyone to death.”  This was so that what Yeshua had said, about how he was going to die, might be fulfilled.  (John 18: 28-32)

So it was death they sought? This was most grave. He took one last look at them and turned to go back…

They brought the accused in. He was immediately taken in by the face of this man. There was something about his eyes that made it hard to look directly at him, but you were drawn to nonetheless. He shook off the feeling of impending doom that he felt.

He MUST play this role properly. The priests had been adamant that this man was out to destroy all of Rome and down to his very life.

But this man’s eyes did not hold the normal crazed look of a would-be king. Instead, he thought that he could see and sense an unrestrained love emanating from him.

This had to be his imagination. Or something he ate. He would speak to his cook later to make sure he hadn’t done anything new to the food that he served him.

A chill ran down his spine and he shivered just for a moment. He had a brief flash of fear. He shrugged it off.

Part of him wanted nothing to do with the affairs and arguments of these wretched Jews.

The other part of him was eager to assert the full force and dominance of Rome upon this man that would dare to disrupt the delicate balance to the peace of Jerusalem…but still those eyes…there was a Wisdom so ancient there…a knowing.   

As if He had all of the answers that were in Pilate’s heart at that very moment. He felt a jump at the very core of his being as if he was in the presence of a life-changer.

He… called Yeshua and said to him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” 34 Yeshua answered,

“Are you asking this on your own, or have other people told you about me?”

35 Pilate replied, “Am I a Jew

Your own nation and head cohanim have handed you over to me; what have you done?”

36 Yeshua answered, “My kingship does not derive its authority from this world’s order of things. If it did, my men would have fought to keep me from being arrested by the Judeans. But my kingship does not come from here.”

37 “So then,” Pilate said to him, “You are a king, after all.” Yeshua answered, “You say I am a king. The reason I have been born, the reason I have come into the world, is to bear witness to the truth. Every one who belongs to the truth listens to me.”

38 Pilate asked him, “What is truth?”

Having said this, Pilate went outside again to the Judeans and told them, “I don’t find any case against him.

39 However, you have a custom that at Passover I set one prisoner free. Do you want me to set free for you the ‘king of the Jews’?”

40 But they yelled back, “No, not this man but Bar-Abba!” (Bar-Abba was a revolutionary.)
He then took Yeshua and had him flogged.

2 The soldiers twisted thorn-branches into a crown and placed it on his head, put a purple robe on him,

3 and went up to him, saying over and over, “Hail, ‘king of the Jews’!” and hitting him in the face.

4 Pilate went outside once more and said to the crowd, “Look, I’m bringing him out to you to get you to understand that I find no case against him.”

5 So Yeshua came out, wearing the thorn-branch crown and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Look at the man!”

6 When the head cohanim and the Temple guards saw him they shouted, “Put him to death on the stake! Put him to death on the stake!” Pilate said to them, “You take him out yourselves and put him to death on the stake, because I don’t find any case against him.”

7 The Judeans answered him, “We have a law; according to that law, he ought to be put to death, because he made himself out to be the Son of God.”

8 On hearing this, Pilate became even more frightened.

9 He went back into the headquarters and asked Yeshua, “Where are you from?” But Yeshua didn’t answer.

10 So Pilate said to him, “You refuse to speak to me? Don’t you understand that it is in my power either to set you free or to have you executed on the stake?”

11 Yeshua answered, “You would have no power over me if it hadn’t been given to you from above; this is why the one who handed me over to you is guilty of a greater sin.”

12 On hearing this, Pilate tried to find a way to set him free; but the Judeans shouted, “If you set this man free, it means you’re not a ‘Friend of the Emperor’! Everyone who claims to be a king is opposing the Emperor!”

13 When Pilate heard what they were saying, he brought Yeshua outside and sat down on the judge’s seat in the place called The Pavement (in Aramaic, Gabta);

14 it was about noon on Preparation Day for Pesach. He said to the Judeans, “Here’s your king!”

15 They shouted, “Take him away! Take him away! Put him to death on the stake!” Pilate said to them, “You want me to execute your king on a stake?” The head cohanim answered, “We have no king but the Emperor.”

16 Then Pilate handed Yeshua over to them to have him put to death on the stake.

So they took charge of Yeshua.

17 Carrying the stake himself he went out to the place called Skull (in Aramaic, Gulgolta).

18 There they nailed him to the stake along with two others, one on either side, with Yeshua in the middle. 19 Pilate also had a notice written and posted on the stake; it read,

YESHUA FROM NATZERET THE KING OF THE JEWS

20 Many of the Judeans read this notice, because the place where Yeshua was put on the stake was close to the city; and it had been written in Hebrew, in Latin and in Greek.

21 The Judeans’ head cohanim therefore said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but ‘He said, “I am King of the Jews.”’” 22 Pilate answered, “What I have written, I have written.”

23 When the soldiers had nailed Yeshua to the stake, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier, with the under-robe left over. Now the under-robe was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom;

24 so they said to one another, “We shouldn’t tear it in pieces; let’s draw for it.” This happened in order to fulfill the words from the Tanakh,

“They divided my clothes among themselves. This is why the soldiers did these things.

25 Nearby Yeshua’s execution stake stood his mother, his mother’s sister Miryam the wife of K’lofah, and Miryam from Magdala.

26 When Yeshua saw his mother and the talmid whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, “Mother, this is your son.”

27 Then he said to the talmid, “This is your mother.” And from that time on, the talmid took her into his own home.

28 After this, knowing that all things had accomplished their purpose, Yeshua, in order to fulfill the words of the Tanakh, said, “I’m thirsty.”

29 A jar full of cheap sour wine was there; so they soaked a sponge in the wine, coated it with oregano leaves and held it up to his mouth.

30 After Yeshua had taken the wine, he said, “It is accomplished!” And, letting his head droop, he delivered up his spirit. 

31 It was Preparation Day, and the Judeans did not want the bodies to remain on the stake on Shabbat, since it was an especially important Shabbat. So they asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed. 

32 The soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been put on a stake beside Yeshua, then the legs of the other one;

33 but when they got to Yeshua and saw that he was already dead, they didn’t break his legs.

34 However, one of the soldiers stabbed his side with a spear, and at once blood and water flowed out.

35 The man who saw it has testified about it, and his testimony is true. And he knows that he tells the truth, so you too can trust.

36 For these things happened in order to fulfill this passage of the Tanakh:

“Not one of his bones will be broken.”

37 And again, another passage says,“They will look at him whom they have pierced.”

38 After this, Yosef of Ramatayim, who was a talmid of Yeshua, but a secret one out of fear of the Judeans, asked Pilate if he could have Yeshua’s body. Pilate gave his consent, so Yosef came and took the body away.

39 Also Nakdimon, who at first had gone to see Yeshua by night, came with some seventy pounds of spices — a mixture of myrrh and aloes.

40 They took Yeshua’s body and wrapped it up in linen sheets with the spices, in keeping with Judean burial practice.

41 In the vicinity of where he had been executed was a garden, and in the garden was a new tomb in which no one had ever been buried.

42 So, because it was Preparation Day for the Judeans, and because the tomb was close by, that is where they buried Yeshua.

Pilate didn’t know the truth even though the truth was standing before him.

Don’t make the same mistake.

Now you know about His final moments before He died. But did you know…what He did that day was for YOU?

It’s true, I shared all of that to come to this moment now…He did this for LOVE. He did this in place of the punishment that we ALL deserve for living a life of sin.

His sacrifice was so that you could be forgiven and no longer be guilty. He paid the fine of death FOR you. But why? Why would He do that for you? I have already told you.

Because He loves you. 

Not in that fleeting kind of way like a friend loves you until it gets too hard. Not in the kind of way when two brothers are caught in a crime and the one blames everything on the other and takes no guilt for himself.

No, in the unconditional love that is greater than the love of a mother that is willing to sacrifice her own life for the unborn child that she is carrying if she is ill.

He loves you more infinitely than the number of stars in the sky.

All He wants is for you to know Him and for you to believe in Him so that He can come and make His home in your spirit. He wants to be so close, as the very air that you breathe.

He doesn’t promise that all of your problems will disappear, but if you walk the path, He promises to never leave you or forsake you. That means that you no longer have to do life on your own. That means that you have the right to be called a son of Yah and that with that right comes an inheritance. One that reaps eternal benefits of living with Him forever.

If you want to speak to us personally to have us lead you into a prayer of repentance so that you can begin your relationship with Him, then email us at prayer@luxsalisministries.org

However if you want to do that now on your own…Please add your own words to this, but we will help you get started.

Father, I acknowledge you as my Father. I acknowledge who You are. You are the Creator and you sent a part of yourself known as your Son, Yeshua to the Earth to die in my place. I believe this. I know in my heart that He came and He died for me. I want to repent right now. I acknowledge that I have sinned in so many ways and that I am deserving of death for breaking your laws and missing the mark.

I want you to be my King. I want you to reign in my spirit. I ask that you come and make your home in me. Please forgive me for everything I ever did to hurt you and for breaking your Torah.

Now lift your hands and let Him come.

Now I will pray for you…

Abba, please fill this person to the core of their being with you. Fill them up until they overflow with your love and forgiveness. I ask that you lift every burden from their shoulders. I ask that you give them a great desire for you. I ask that they are filled with desire to read your Word and to draw near to you as you draw near to them.

HALLELUYAH!

Now, what is your next step?

You need to find a Biblically based home group.  They will take you in and begin to teach you the Ways. HIS Ways. Contact us if you need help. Contact us if you prayed this prayer of repentance.

We want to hear about what happened when you said it and we want to help you get started on your new life!