CHRIST CRUCIFIED lesson 4
1 Corinthians 2:2 For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
Jesus Christ and Him crucified is the paramount truth. Abundant life can be walked in at the revelation of the work of the cross and what it accomplished in the believer. Behold the Lamb of God; it the source of soundness and wholeness.
Isaiah 53:1 Who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? 2 For He shall grow up before Him as a tender plant, And as a root out of dry ground. He has no form or comeliness; And when we see Him, There is no beauty that we should desire Him. 3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Isaiah 53 is one of the greatest prophetic chapters in regards to Jesus going to the cross. Who will believe our report? It is a question that still needs to be proposed. Who will believe the great message about to be unveiled about the power of the cross? In a little Bruce theology, I believe verses 2 and 3 are specific to what Jesus would look like on the cross. It was a dreadful sight to behold; the Jewish nation indeed fulfilled the prophecy they hid their faces from Him. Indeed, He was despised and not esteemed.
Isaiah 53:4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed.
Grab hold of the revelation! Jesus bore our griefs and carried our sorrows! You do not have to bear it any more, Jesus has done that for you. Jesus was wounded for your sin; the sin we committed and the sin committed against us he died for. The pain incurred and the pain inflicted was faced by Jesus Himself. The punishment for our peace was upon Him. Jesus bore the punishment so we don’t have to. Grace unveiled say by His stripes we are healed. Jesus did a finished work at the cross.
Isaiah 53:6 All we like sheep have gone astray; We have turned, every one, to his own way; And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He opened not His mouth; He was led as a lamb to the slaughter, And as a sheep before its shearers is silent, So He opened not His mouth.
No one is immune from the dregs of sins. We all have gone astray. The Father laid upon Jesus the iniquity of us all. No one was left out from the payment for all sin, that Jesus paid. Jesus was oppressed and afflicted. He went willingly, lovingly, humbly submitting to the death of the cross.
Isaiah 53:8 He was taken from prison and from judgment, And who will declare His generation? For He was cut off from the land of the living; For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. 9 And they made His grave with the wicked--But with the rich at His death, Because He had done no violence, Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Jesus faced imprisonment and faced the judgment of both the Jewish religious leaders and the Roman government. He was on the cross between two robbers and was buried in the grave of a rich man. Every prophetic word spoken of Jesus came to pass.
Isaiah 53:10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand. 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many, For He shall bear their iniquities.
The Father was pleased to bruise Him; He put Him to grief. There was purpose in the heart of the Father; He gave His best the only begotten Son in order to gain you! The pleasure of the Father shall prosper in the hand of Jesus Christ. The Father saw the labor of Jesus’ soul and was satisfied! Jesus fulfilled the holy standard of justice; the perfect innocence Lamb of God bore the sin, shame guilt and condemnation of the world. The Righteous Servant shall justify many, for he bore their iniquities.
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great, And He shall divide the spoil with the strong, Because He poured out His soul unto death, And He was numbered with the transgressors, And He bore the sin of many, And made intercession for the transgressors.
Jesus received the portion of the great and willingly desires to share that portion with those who put their faith in Him.
Romans 3:21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Righteousness is exclusively through faith in Jesus Christ. The power of the cross made it possible. Righteousness is being right with God; a oneness between God and the believer.
Romans 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Righteousness being given by the divine influence and the goodness of God. It is the redemption that is found exclusively in Christ Jesus. Justified is being made just is if we have never sinned. The Father makes a demonstration of His goodness. The Father is just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Romans 4:1 What then shall we say that Abraham our father has found according to the flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. 3 For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." 4 Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.
Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. If it is of works then it cannot any longer be counted as grace.
Romans 4:5 But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, 6 just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom God imputes righteousness apart from works: 7 "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are covered; 8 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD shall not impute sin."
We are the blessed ones whose lawless deeds are forgiven. We are the blessed ones to whom the Father shall not impute sin. What a great promise!
2Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
Righteousness and justification brought us to the place of becoming a new creation in Christ Jesus. Jesus did it at the cross!
2 Corinthians 5:18 Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
The Father was reconciling us to Himself through Jesus Christ; not imputing our sin. He has committed us to this word of reconciliation through the power of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
2Corinthians 5:20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
He took our sin so we could have His righteousness. What a deal; be reconciled to God by the power of the cross.
1 Corinthians 1:21 For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who believe. 22 For Jews request a sign, and Greeks seek after wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness, 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
We preach Christ crucified… Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Galatians 6:14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
Rise up church and make your boast on the cross…
Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
I have been crucified with Christ… the one who loved me and give Himself for me!
Jesus is the faithful God
God is good all the time!
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