The Meaning of the Cross
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12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.
OBEDIENCE
8 Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
CROWNED W/GLORY
9 But we do see Him who was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He might taste death for everyone.
SWALLOW UP DEATH
54 But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory.
55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law;
WAGES
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
GIFT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
PROPHECY OF + V24
PROPHECY OF + V24
New American Standard Bible The Crucifixion
Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be”; that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “THEY DIVIDED MY OUTER GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST LOTS.”
V. 28
V. 28
14 I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It is melted within me.
15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
And You lay me in the dust of death.
HE WAS TRULY MAN, HUMAN
Jesus gave full proof of his humanity—sinless humanity. He entered this world as a babe and was ‘wrapped in swaddling clothes’ (Luke 2:7). As a child, we are told, he ‘increased in wisdom and stature’ (Luke 2:52). As a boy we find him ‘asking questions’ (Luke 2:46). As a man he was ‘wearied’ in body (John 4:6). He was ‘an hungered’ (Matt. 4:2). He ‘slept’ (Mark 4:38). He ‘rejoiced’ (Luke 10:21). He ‘groaned’ (John 11:33). And here in our text he cried, ‘I thirst.’ That evidenced his humanity. God does not thirst. The angels do not. We shall not in glory—‘they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more’ (Rev. 7:16). But we thirst now because we are human and living in a world of sorrow. And Christ thirsted because he was man—‘Wherefore, in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren’ (Heb. 2:17).”
21 They also gave me gall for my food
And for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
New American Standard Bible Care of the Body of Jesus
NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN.” 37 And again another Scripture says, “THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED.”
46 “It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it.
12 ‘They shall leave none of it until morning, nor break a bone of it; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall observe it.
10 “I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.
LLOYD-JONES
And finally, not only has God a plan, but it is a plan that is certain; nothing can stop it. The Pharisees and Sadducees and scribes and all the others were against Christ. They all delivered Him up to death. He was a danger, a nuisance, and they regarded Him as a political agitator. “Away with Him,” they shouted. The unintelligent mob crucified Him, and they thought that was the end. But they did not know that even as they were hammering in the nails, they were carrying out God’s will. The God I preach to you can use His enemies, and He has often done so. They do not know what is happening, but He does. He used His enemies to carry out His own plan. Human malignity could not frustrate it. Our Lord’s enemies thought that when they crucified Him and saw His body taken to a tomb, that would be the end of Him, but it was not. Hell had let itself loose, man and devil had done their utmost, but God smashed it all. God raised Christ from the dead. He is over all, and He triumphed over all, even over all His enemies, even the devil and hell and everything else that was against Him. All are to be defeated: He has announced it by the Resurrection.
THE PAYMENT +
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PAYMENT IN GOLD INSTEAD OF COPPER
“Though Christ paid the same debt as that which is due from lost souls, yet, through the excellency of his person, it was done in a shorter time. A payment in gold is the same sum as a payment in silver or brass; only, through the excellency of the metal, it taketh up less room.”
Thus do we clearly see how the on death of Jesus was a fit and full substitute for the eternal woe of many. How precious does it appear in that light! We are redeemed with a price inconceivable! Gold and silver are corruptible things in comparison therewith. How we ought to prize the adorable person of our Lord! What high thoughts we ought to entertain of him, seeing that it is “by himself” that he purged our sins! His own intrinsic excellence was the essential value of the great price which he had paid. Had he been less illustrious his sufferings had been insufficient. Precious blood! yea, more precious Lord Jesus, from whose preciousness the finished work derives its infinite efficacy…
RESPONSE:
RESPONSE:
Yet a good wife does not sit idly by the sea watching for a sail, but she sets the house in order for her husband’s return. She who should sit looking out of window, or studying almanacs, and have no provision made for the home-coming, would show but scant love for her lord. We should watch, but we should also stand with our loins girt, and do the duty of the hour, that when our Lord comes he may not blame our negligence in his service. If we know little of the prophecies, we can show our expectancy by keeping the precepts.