Broke Out or Released?

An old writer said “Christ burst forth from the tomb, which could no longer hold Him.  He broke out of the prison which could not confine Him.”  There is no doubt but what the almighty Savior could have pulverized the stone that lay across the entrance into His sepulcher, but He did not do that.  The idea of the Lord Jesus breaking out of the tomb is actually inconsistent with Scripture.  

 

When someone breaks out of prison, they are a fugitive because they short-changed justice and failed to pay the penalty for their crimes; they have failed to live up to the demands of the law.  However, when someone serves their time, the prison door opens for them because all that was demanded by the legal system has been satisfied.  Christ did not break out of the tomb, He was released!  By His death He had paid the indebtedness His people owed to divine justice.  

 

All that the law demanded as remuneration for our guilt, the Savior fully rendered - “He died for our sins.”  An angel was dispatched from the Father and “rolled back the stone from the door” (Matthew 28:2).  All that divine justice required was fulfilled by our glorious Substitute to the Father’s full satisfaction; nothing more could ever be exacted from Him, or from those for whom He died.  

 

The resurrection announces that a holy and just God is well-pleased with the penal death of His Son. His work of honoring justice and putting away the sins of His people for which He came to accomplish was perfectly achieved.

 

-copied 

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