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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: Dignity (04/25/24)
2000 years ago, a King came to earth as a baby. He was to be a man of a unique destiny prophesied by many prophets, years before His birth. As a human, He had dignity and treated people from all walks of life with respect, but because He represented goodness, kindness, and holiness and was a Jew, he was hated by the Roman leaders. He did not consider himself above the poor. He mixed with them. His folks were working-class folks, after all. His mother was a simple woman married to a carpenter. They were not notable in their village but also had dignity and obeyed the laws.

However, he always stood out in every crowd that He was in.
He was a leader of men and he was respectful and a taxpayer. He was mainly criticized because he mixed with and ate with social outcasts, prostitutes, thieves, the poor, and even lepers.
“And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” {Mark 2:16}.
Christ Jesus patterned for us what unconditional love was, and how to deal with hate and, he changed the world. When He was tried, beaten, tortured, nailed to a cross, and crucified, He did it with the dignity of a king. Humbly, He took all that they did to him; spitting, beatings, spearing, nail-pierced, and scalp stabbings with a thorny crown..

Not once did he cry out for his life because He knew that this horror was the only way that His world could be saved. He endured the cross, with dignity. He was The Way to set people, Jews, and Gentiles free and to accomplish His Father's will.
“For by Him, all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” {Colossians 1:16-17}
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C D Swanson 
05/02/24
Amen!
Beautifully said.
God Bless~
Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
05/08/24
This is a lovely retelling of Jesus' life. I can feel your passion in your words. Just a couple of things. Try not to start a sentence with a numeral. Instead write it out or rearrange the sentence so it starts with a word. Double check rules on when touse semi-colon and commas. You've a powerful piece here that is spot on topic and has a clear message.