The Death of Christ
Many
people, when they hear or read of the sufferings and death of Christ,
have feelings of sympathy stirred within them, but the Savior did not
die to cause people to feel sorry for Him. As He made His way to
Golgotha, some women followed Him "which
also bewailed and lamented Him"
[LUKE
23:27].
He said to them, "Weep
not for Me"
[verse
28].
He did not then, nor does He now need or want the pity or tears of
anyone. Everything that happened to Him was according to His eternal
purpose.
His
death was not His defeat, but the defeat of His enemies; it was the
time of His greatest triumph. His death was the fatal blow to Satan,
the removal of our sins, the satisfaction of divine justice and the
bringing in of everlasting righteousness.
It was the salvation
of His people. He
died so God could be a just God and a Savior. All for whom His blood
was shed had their sins put away, and they will find out about it at
the time divinely appointed.
Through
the preaching of the gospel, the Holy Spirit will quicken them and
bring them to rejoice in WHAT has already been done for them and to
believe Him WHO did it. It was through the substitutionary sacrifice
of Christ that God can pardon sin without compromising His law that
demanded death for sin. When we are brought to learn that through the
sufferings, death and resurrection of Christ God can be just and
justify the ungodly, we will not feel sorry for Jesus, but will
rejoice and worship Him. He suffered, bled, died, arose, ascended and
took His rightful place at the right hand of God. "God
hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and
Christ"
[ACTS
2:36].
-Gospel report by preacher Jim Byrd
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