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I think there are a number of reasons that physical and emotional pain are involved.
Firstly, sin is serious. It is not just a stray pencil mark, easily erased. It is an affront against a holy God, a disgrace to the purity He intended for us, as glaring and shameful as splattering excrement on a snow white wedding dress. I think it may very well pain the Lord`s heart to see our sin and what it reaps in our lives, for sin so often leads to painful consequences for us as well. The Old Testament shows us the seriousness of sin in the whole system of animal sacrifice. It was said that without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness. It was all a foreshadowing of what Jesus would do for us on the cross, sacrificing Himself as the Lamb of God.
In addition, pain teaches us. All of us would seek to avoid pain in our lives. Jesus could have, but didn`t. Our own limited experience with pain in our lives helps us appreciate the unfathomable pain Jesus endured for our sake, and so helps us realize the depths of His love for us.
Secondly, Jesus, being fully God and fully man, was actually without sin. The taking on of our guilt, shame, the heinous sins of mankind--murder, lying, the darkest deeds we shudder to imagine--to feel the horror and weight of it would have caused excruciating emotional pain, which I`m sure manifested itself in physical pain as well. The bible says he who knew no sin became sin for our sake.. --it must have been horrifying. In addition, he had to endure the emotional pain of being rejected by those He had come to save.
Thirdly, the physical pain was inflicted by men. They may have viewed it as a penalty for whatever law they pretended had been broken, but they did not realize Jesus was really paying the price for the things we and they did wrong. I think that the time of the crucifixion was a time when the devil thought he had won, and would have gloried in inciting men to inflict pain and torture upon Jesus. As such, I don`t know that pain has any particular saving power, but it was something Jesus endured for our sake. And, oh the triumph that Jesus won for us as he defeated the evil one forever!
May we be truly grateful.By: Doreen Ong Category: Jesus` Last Words, Final Hours on Cross and Jesus` Death (1) Comments |
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| Why did Jesus? penalty for sin need to include physical and emotional pain - why not just spiritual separation from God? |
From the sixth hour the dark descended on all Earth to the ninth hour. As to the ninth hour Jesus exclaimed to great voice saying: - El?, El?! Lama sabactani? - that means: God mine, God mine, so that you have abandoned to me? - When some of which they were there heard to him, they said: - This man calls to El?as. And one of them ran, immediately took a sponge, it filled it of vinegar, and putting it in a cane, it gave him to drink. But others said: - It leaves, we see if El?as comes to save it. But Jesus cried out again to great voice and gave the spirit. And I have here, the veil of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The Earth shook, and the rocks were divided. The tombs were opened, and many bodies of holy men who had died raised; and left the tombs after the resurrection of him, they went to santa city and they appeared to many. And when the centuri?n and those that with him kept Jesus saw the earthquake and the things which they had happened, feared in great way and said: - Truely this one was Son of God! JESUS HAD TO PASS THOUSANDS OF THINGS FOR TO KNOW THAN HE IS SON OF THE GOD AND DID NOT VALUE IT WHEN HE WAS WHILE STILL ALIVE. BY THE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TOWARDS US THE DEATH IN THE CROSS FOR THE SALVATION OUR.By: JULIO CESAR MONAR MESIAS Category: Jesus` Last Words, Final Hours on Cross and Jesus` Death |
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