Isaiah 52- God Put Jesus to Death on the Cross (TMF:487)

Tuesday, September 06, 2016
Peace to Live By: Isaiah 52- God Put Jesus to Death on the Cross (TMF:487) - Daniel Litton
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       You do realize, don’t you, that God was the One who put Christ to death on the cross? He was the One who slew Jesus for our sins. Remember Jesus said, “My God, my God. Why have you forsaken me?” God abandoned him, turning against him, because he saw that the sin of the whole world—the sin of all time—on him. The Jewish God, the only God that there is, demands a payment from people for their sin. Yet, we have nothing to offer for it. So, God executed Jesus on the cross so that we could have a payment for our sin. He was guiltless, sinless, had never done anything wrong. That was why he could pay for our sin. And this was an epic event, when God slew him, for the Scripture even suggests that the Sun—the physical Sun of our solar system—actually stopped shinning. That is, it burnt out for a short time; it was just a rock in space. Trillions upon trillions of combustable energy—gone (see Luke 23:44, 45). There was a great earthquake (see Matt. 27:51). The curtain leading into the Holy of Holies in the Jewish Temple was torn in two (see Matt. 27:51 & Luke 23:45).