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Light-hearted song to turn initially non-serious people’s minds to Spiritual things, to Jesus Christ.

God loved his creation and didn’t want to stopping free will, yet wanted to bring human beings back to himself. Therefore, he was willing to take on the death penalty for them, thus serving justice, and at the same time do it FOR them, thus showing mercy.

Since God was coming from outside earth (God is not part of his creation; he is totally other), God was not a citizen of the planet.

God chose to come at a time and to a place where human beings were sick of the gods they had been given–many Romans were more moral than their gods. The Greeks, who had worshiped the gods many centuries before, now considered them to be mythologies. Greek learning and Roman administration created an excellent compound for spreading the message, and it proved to work–Christian is the largest religion on earth today.

But the death penalty for a non-citizen at that time and place was crucifixion.

Jesus was by no means the only person to be crucified. It was a horrible, extremely painful, very public death, intended as a public lesson to stop anyone else doing the same thing Jesus did. And yet at least three of the twelve apostles were also crucified because they were not Roman citizens and stood with Jesus Christ.

Why was God pleased? Because this brought about, meeting justice and mercy both, and in his love for us wanting to pay our penalty, he could see ‘knowing the joy that was set before him’, the rescue of everyone who would come back to him and he demonstrated his love for us.

If Jesus had chosen to come later, say NOW, maybe it would have been the chair. And that’s no picnic (I won’t horrify you with descriptions of what have happened to some innocent people who died as a travesty of justice, but at least it’s no longer intended as a public humiliation.