Resurrection Eggs - #6 Light Yellow Egg
Excerpts taken from Resurrection Eggs - The Easter Story for Children by Family Life's Randal Lee Walti
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Crown of Thorns -
Read Matthew 27:29 Many of the same people who were praising Jesus as God just a few days before when He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey were now treating Him like a bad person. They believed that if Jesus were truly God, He would save Himself from having to die. Yet that was not God's plan. His plan was to save us by allowing His Son, Jesus, to die on the Cross for us. But the people did not understand this and so they did not truly believe that Jesus was God. We should never believe others when they tell us Jesus is not God. And we should never treat someone badly just because others are doing it. We should always do what the Bible, God's Word, tells us to do. And we should always love others because this is the way we show that we love God. This is not what the Roman guards did, because they didn't believe Jesus was God. They teased, taunted, hit, and beat Him. They made a crown out of sharp thorns and put it on Jesus' head. Then they kneeled down before Him and teased Him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" even though they didn't believe He was a king. And then they spit on Jesus and took a very strong grass-like stick called a reed and beat Jesus on His head, crushing the crown of thorns into His skin and causing Him to bleed badly. We know the Roman guards had no love for God because the Bible says that if you love God, you will love each other. And if we don't love others then we don't really love God. |
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The CROWN OF THORNS reminds us of the crown that the soldiers placed on Jesus' head while mocking Him, saying "Hail, King of the Jews!"
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