How great was our Saviours suffering?it involved two things,'the wrath of man and the wrath of God, let us consider the first one, Let us first look 'the wrath of man', It began with a man called Judas ,a supposed follower of Christ who was becoming more and more disillusioned with Christ, their didn't appear to be any pay day coming.He was a man obessed with money and the devil entered into him,beware that you don't let sinful cravings take over your life ,the devil will take advantage and drive you to destruction.He knew how the religious leaders wanted rid of Jesus,oh yes they had their perverted reasons,they hated and envied Him.They were delighted when Judas came to them,and he received 30 piieces of silver (Lk 22ff) Judas took the money and waited for an opportunity to betray Jesus,eventualy it came,I would add Jesus knew what was coming,but He bravely and courageously went forward to His destination.Remember no one forced him to die on the Cross,He said ,'No one takes it from me(His life) ,but I lay it down of my own accord, I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again (Jn 10 v18) So let us move on to the garden where Judas betrayed Him,He was then arrested and taken to be tried first by Annas,there he was slapped in the face (Jn 18 v22)this was followed by more abuse(Mt 26 v67). He was then taken to Caiaphas and then to Pilate to be tried,he sent him over to Herod and then He was returned to Pilate who in the end gave into the demands of the Jews to crucify Him, He then was flogged, He was then taken out to the soldiers He was mocked and beaten,and a crown of thorns put on His head, then he was taken to be crucified,To get the full graphic picture of the state his body, we turn to Isaiah's account in 52 v 14,we read,'Just as there were many who were appalled at Him,his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and His form marred beyond human likeness'
'Such was the wrath of man'.
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