Isaiah 52- Jesus' Death Was No Simple Act (TMF:486)

Monday, September 05, 2016
Peace to Live By: Isaiah 52- Jesus' Death Was No Simple Act (TMF:486) - Daniel Litton
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       He will also give us a portion of his kingdom here on the earth, when he establishes it in the future. And the new heaven and new earth will be ours when he creates it. God is a God full of love, and he freely gives his gifts to anyone who will believe in Jesus. The next part of the passage states, “As many were astonished at you—his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind—so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand” (Isaiah 52:14, 15, ESV). Jesus’ death in paying for our sins was no simple act. For any of you who’ve seen Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion of the Christ,’ you can get an image, a picture, into what Jesus went through. The punishment for our sin was miserable and painful, to use human words. God spared no mercy in his punishment of Christ. Whether it was the lashings, the nails, the hanging on the cross, and humiliation of it all, whatever you consider, it was grotesque.