JESUS TAKES OUR SINS TO THE CROSS

SATURDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC: JESUS TAKES OUR SIN TO THE CROSS

MEMORIZE: "Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again." John 10:17.

SCRIPTURE READING: John 10:17-18.

"Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. 18 "No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father." 

EXPOSITION:

Jesus Christ takes off the sins of humanity to the cross, which to many is a stone of stumbling, by four considerations:-- 

[a.] That his laying down his life for the sheep was the condition, the performance of which entitled him to the honours and powers of his exalted state John 10:17: "Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life. Upon these terms I am, as Mediator, to expect my Father's acceptance and approbation, and the glory designed me--that I become a sacrifice for the chosen remnant." Not but that, as the Son of God, he was beloved of his Father from eternity, but as God-man, as Immanuel, he was therefore beloved of the Father because he undertook to die for the sheep; therefore God's soul delighted in him as his elect because herein he was his faithful servant Isa 42:1; therefore he said, This is my beloved Son. What an instance is this of God's love to man, that he loved his Son the more for loving us! See what a value Christ puts upon his Father's love, that, to recommend himself to that, he would lay down his life for the sheep. Did he think God's love recompence sufficient for all his services and sufferings, and shall we think it too little for ours, and court the smiles of the world to make it up?  Therefore doth my Father love me, that is, me, and all that by faith become one with me; me, and the mystical body, because I lay down my life. 

[b.] That his laying down his life was in order to his resuming it: I lay down my life, that I may receive it again. First, This was the effect of his Father's love, and the first step of his exaltation, the fruit of that love. Because he was God's holy one, he must not see corruption, Ps 16:10. God loved him too well to leave him in the grave. Secondly, This he had in his eye, in laying down his life, that he might have an opportunity of declaring himself to be the Son of God with power by his resurrection, Ro 1:4. By a divine stratagem (like that before Ai, Jos 8:15) he yielded to death, as if he were smitten before it, that he might the more gloriously conquer death, and triumph over the grave. He laid down a vilified body, that he might assume a glorified one, fit to ascend to the world of spirits; laid down a life adapted to this world, but assumed one adapted to the other, like a corn of wheat, Joh 12:24. 

[c.] That he was perfectly voluntary in his sufferings and death John 10:18: "No one doth or can force my life from me against my will, but I freely lay it down of myself, I deliver it as my own act and deed, for I have (which no man has) power to lay it down, and to take it again." 

[d.] That he did all this by the express order and appointment of his Father, into which he ultimately resolves the whole affair: This commandment have I received of my Father; not such a commandment as made what he did necessary, prior to his own voluntary undertaking; but this was the law of mediation, which he was willing to have written in his heart, so as to delight in doing the will of God according to it, Ps 40:8.

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, Thank you for our redemption In Jesus Name.  

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Isaiah  33 – 35.

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