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Seven Last Words Daily Devotional -8

by David Joynt on February 24, 2021


LUKE 23:41 | 41 And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.”

The dying criminal proclaims the truth of Jesus’ innocence and the reality of his own guilt. This, once more is a startling observation. Does he conclude Jesus’ innocence because he had followed His career, heard of His reputation, or did he observe something special about Him under the severe suffering of the cross? I don’t know the answer, but there is deep irony in it being a criminal who pronounces Jesus innocent and exposes the injustice of His death, when judges, officials, and religious experts have done the reverse.

Jesus willingly identified Himself with the condemned and also with all those subject to unjust punishment by undergoing this death.

Pray for those who exist in prisons because they have been unjustly condemned.

 

Tags: unjust, condemned

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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