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Matthew 27:43, “He trusts in God; let Him deliver Him now, if He
takes pleasure in Him; for He said, “I am the Son of God.’” They
said, “He says that He trusts in God and God delights in Him,” but
they were mocking Him. But they also confessed that He trusts in
God and He saved others and God delights in Him. They said that
He said He was the Son of God. As they tried to mock Him they
said, “He’s the King, He saved others, He trusts God, God delights
in Him, and He’s the King of the Jews.”

I don’t know if you are familiar with Friedrich Krummacher, a
German reformed theologian. He was meditating on this passage
and he said, “They stoned His cross with roses.” They tried to throw
stones but, instead, they just honored the Lord.

One that has become precious to me is Matthew 27:25, “And all the
people answered and said, “His blood be on us and on our children!”
You know what they meant when they said, “His blood be on us and
our children.” I pray that for my family. I ask the Lord to put His
blood on me and my family. God will always get praise. Nobody
can stop Him.

Romans 11:36, “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all
things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen” So, God works and
controls everything in the universe for redemptive purposes. What
I mean by that is that God will get the glory, even if I don’t want to
give it to Him and even from rebellious people and even from Satan.
Angels give Him glory. Every circumstance and every storm,
everything, gives Him glory and it’s all redemptive.

When there is a calamity in the world, somebody will seek the Lord.
Everything that happens is redemptive. God gets glory from the
wicked and the unwilling but in a special way He gets glory if we
cooperate with Him. John 15:4&5, “Abide in Me, and I in you. As
the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so
neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine, you are the
branches; he who abides in Me, and I in him, he bears much fruit;