Jesus Displaying Himself through Saving Sinners by Refusing to Save Himself

How can you go to Paradise? Pastor leads his family in today's "Hopewell @Home" passage. Luke 23:35–46 prepares us for the morning sermon on the coming Lord's Day. In these twelve verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that what the mockery in Luke's account all had in common was "Save Yourself." But Jesus was showing Himself to be the Christ, the Chosen One, the King, the God and Savior… precisely by not saving Himself from the cross. To this the criminal, Christ, and the creation itself all testified.