DAILY?READINGS: 2 Kings 6:1-23; Jeremiah 39-40; Hebrews 10:1-18
Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. Matthew 27:50
This loud cry came when the Lord had finished His work and dismissed His spirit. This was not the weak whisper of a dying man succumbing to death, but a strong cry of victory. Never think that the death of the Lord Jesus was the result of physical decline caused by the sufferings of the cross—severe as these were. The Lord Jesus was not overcome by death, because death had no claim upon Him. He had already said “No man taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myself” (John 10:18), and in His resurrection, He demonstrated that He had overcome death, hell and the grave. —W. H. Burnett
He Satan’s power laid low; made sin, He sin o’erthrew,
Bowed to the grave, destroyed it so, and death by dying slew. —S. Gandy