The supreme purpose of Christ coming into the world was to die on the cross ,so our sins could be forgiven,His death accomplished everything that was necessary for our salvation. It meant that He would leave heaven,there he was equal with God,as part of the divine Trinity,it was truly one giant step,he entered this world,fully human and fully divine.And his role was that of a servant,and to become obedient unto death ,even death on the cross.The suffering He experienced when he was arrested,and his death on the cross was horrendous,this does not appear in the many pictures painted of His crucifixion.Well Mel Gibson made the movie ,'The passion of Christ', many complained that it was to graphic,it wasn't, it wasn't graphic enough.Let us bear in mind,that the Messiahs suffering was clearly foretold by the prophets,In Isaiah 52 v 14 we read,'But many were amazed when they saw him,His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human,and from his appearance one would scarcely know he was a man'. In 53 v 7 we read,'That he was led as a lamb to the slaughter',we often talk about animals going to the slaughter house.In modern abattoirs they try to make the killing of animals as painless as possible,but Christs death was anything like painless,it was slow and agonising, it was death on a cross, But it didn't stop there as we will see next time.
Man of sorrows what a name,
For the Son of God who came,
Ruined sinners to reclaim,
Hallelujah what a Saviour
Philip P. Bliss.
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