And he
[Jesus] is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the
sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2).
Christ
on the Cross was more saturated in fury and judgment than blood and sweat.
Jesus was hounded and pounded more by God’s wrath in making propitiation than
by crossbeam, nail, and mallet. Christ was crucified, killed, and executed;
God’s holy justice flung on Jesus by what John Murray termed “The holy
revulsion of God’s being against which is the contradiction of His holiness.”
God’s wrath was stockpiled and then poured out on Jesus at the Cross. All the
sin and wickedness reserved, as it added up and was stacked up, and then poured
out on Jesus; thus God’s judgment for our sin was put away. We deserved wrath
and judgment but God hurled it on Jesus in our place.
The consequence of the Cross is forgiveness
because it is the remedy for the infection of sin. Jesus hung on the Cross to
remove sin and rinse the sin syndrome from our soul inasmuch as the blood of
Christ paid the debt, propitiated wrath, and rinsed believers clean.
The Cross has a sufficient effect that
insures that sin will not dominate you on earth and is forever removed from
your eternal record.
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