Chapter 7-WHAT GOD HAS DONE TO SAVE MANKIND

ONE spring afternoon nearly 2,000 years ago, a Romans centurion watched three men die slow, agonizing deaths.  That soldier especially noted one of them -Jesus Christ.  Jesus  had been nailed to a wooden stake.  The midday sky blackened as the moment of his death approached.  When he died, the earth shook violently, and the soldier exclaimed:  "Certainly  this man was God's Son." -Mark 15:39.

God's Son!  That soldier was right.  He had just witnessed the most important event every to occur on the earth.  On earlier occasions, God himself had called Jesus his beloved Son.  (Matthew 3:17; 17:5)  Why had Jehovah allowed his Son to die!  Because this was God's means of saving mankind from sin and death.

Next time: CHOSEN FOR A SPECIAL PURPOSE

The Book -KNOWLEDGE That Leads To Everlasting Life, 1995