Forgive

[Music] they first took off his clothes then they took long leather thongs with steel pellets or lead pellets on the end and beat him across the back until he could hardly stand up then they put a crown of thorns on his brow and his face was bleeding and they laughed at him and they spit on him and they mocked him and with one snap of his finger seventy two thousand angels had already drawn their swords ready to come to his rescue and wipe this planet out of existence in the universe and jesus said no to

this end was i born he wasn't just another revolutionary he wasn't just another hippie he was not just another great man he was god in the flesh and oh the ethics that he taught never a man spake like that man when you get hit on one side he says turn the other cheek he never said what to do after that [Music] but he did say forgive seventy times seven count that out jesus taught that we're to forgive he taught a revolution in the way we're to live he taught us that it wasn't just our outward

actions that god judges but it's the end with thoughts and he dragged and lifted and hauled that cross he didn't squirm he didn't yell he didn't scream he just took it and said lord forgive them they don't know what they're doing when he died on that cross [Music] they nailed him they put the nails in his hands [Music] and you know what he said forgive them they know not what they do forgive them could you forgive somebody that's putting nails in your hands and you know you didn't deserve then look at the death he died

did ever a man die like jesus the lightning flashed and the thunder roar and the earth began to shake and even the soldiers confessed that this must be the son of god anyone that can see jesus on that cross and not be touched has a heart of stone and then on the cross he said my god why style forsaken me and then he dropped his head and said it's finished what did he mean he meant your plan of salvation was finished god can now forgive you of all your sins because jesus had finished god's plan

for your salvation because you see god knows every one of you by name he has the hands of your head numbered