One out of the many things that makes Christianity so different from all the other religions is that the God of the Bible came down from
Heaven to save man, whereas every other religion is about man trying to reach up to Heaven for God.
The God of the Bible felt, experienced and understands the struggles that we go through, as it says in Hebrews 4:15, "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin."
If you are experiencing suffering today, think about what Jesus Christ felt and experienced, and it was for you, for me, for all of us. He left glory to experience that suffering; being mocked, spit on, being whipped, tortured and killed by his own creation for us. Look at what it says in this prophecy in Isaiah 53:3-5 about The Lord Jesus Christ, "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
Jesus Christ literally experienced a greater pain than anyone - being completely forsaken by God the father. The Lord Jesus Christ was temporarily forsaken by the Father because he had all of the world's sins added to his account as if he had done it and he was experiencing the punishment and judgement of that, while he is completely innocent and perfect. He took our place on that cross and paid the fine for us.
The vicarious substitutionary atonement is so incredibly profound. It is the crux of human history.
2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
1 Peter 2:24 - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Romans 3:24-26 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
The God of the Bible felt, experienced and understands the struggles that we go through, as it says in Hebrews 4:15, "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin."
If you are experiencing suffering today, think about what Jesus Christ felt and experienced, and it was for you, for me, for all of us. He left glory to experience that suffering; being mocked, spit on, being whipped, tortured and killed by his own creation for us. Look at what it says in this prophecy in Isaiah 53:3-5 about The Lord Jesus Christ, "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
Jesus Christ literally experienced a greater pain than anyone - being completely forsaken by God the father. The Lord Jesus Christ was temporarily forsaken by the Father because he had all of the world's sins added to his account as if he had done it and he was experiencing the punishment and judgement of that, while he is completely innocent and perfect. He took our place on that cross and paid the fine for us.
The vicarious substitutionary atonement is so incredibly profound. It is the crux of human history.
2 Corinthians 5:21 says, "For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
1 Peter 2:24 - Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
Romans 3:24-26 - Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.
31-35, M
