The following is from a Good Friday sermon my husband shared this year.  I thought it was so good I wanted to share with my readers:

There are many great mountain top experiences in the Word of God.

• On Mount Horeb, God spoke to Moses from the burning bush
• On Mount Sinai, God wrote the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone
• On Mount Hor, Aaron transferred his priestly robes to his son Eleazar
• From Mount Nebo, Moses looked over into the Promised Land
• On Mount Moriah, Solomon built the Temple
• On the Mount of Transfiguration, Peter, James and John saw Jesus in His radiant glory
• From the Mount of Olives, Jesus would ascend into heaven

But the greatest of all of these is Mount Calvary, where Jesus was lifted up and died for our sins.

• On Mount Calvary, Jesus of Nazareth was lifted up, bled and gave HIs life for me
• On Mount Calvary Jesus, who walked the dusty roads of Judea, who could have called 10,000 angels chose rather to suffer and die
• On Mount Calvary, God let this sinless, spotless lamb of glory, the Messiah thirst to quench the spiritual thirst of ll mankind
• On Mount Calvary, God, who clothes the lilies of the fields, let His son hang naked and in shame for all to see and mock in derision and shame.
• On Mount Calvary, this precious little child who lay so innocently in a cradle in an animals’ stall in Bethlehem, now hung helpless and dying on a criminal’s cross in view of friend and foe alike.
• On Mount Calvary, earth has no darker sin, history no blacker page, humanity no fouler spot than the crucifixion of Jesus.

The old hymn states:  “He did it all for me.  When the Savior cried, bowed HIs head and died, He did it all for me.”