#AllSaintsRadio #Xtians #GloryToGod #HigherLove #Faith #Jesus #GodLife -Excerpt from The Death of Christ
The Greatest Victory in All of History-by Marshall Segal
Why did Jesus die? You might have your favorite answer or verse.
He was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. (Isaiah 53:5)
We live by and for Christ and him crucified. But have you ever thought about reasons he didn’t die? What are really bad answers to the question? The truth is there are answers — lots of them — that sadly and subtly undermine what Christ came to do.
Jesus’s death was not a bargain, trap, formality, concession, incident of child abuse, or defeat. Our souls and the universe hang on the hope that Christ died for more than that. No, the cross was the coming together of God’s perfect love and perfect justice. It was conceived in the mind of God before the world began (Revelation 13:8) and will be rejoiced in for eternity (5:12).
Why did Jesus die?
The righteous, loving Father humbled himself to become in and through his only Son flesh, sin and curse for us, in order to redeem us without compromising his own character. The theological words satisfaction and substitution need to be carefully defined and safeguarded, but they cannot in any circumstance be given up. The biblical gospel of atonement is of God satisfying himself by substituting himself for us.
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