CHAPTER 6: WHAT HAPPENED BENID THE SCENE?
-Whats the big deal?
-A guy was crucified
-He wasnt the only person to die by such a hideous death
-those watching with natural eyes see an innocent man beaten to a bloody plup
hung on the cross by thugs
-Those watching with spiritual eyes see something else
-The visible world,can see how hideous was his death on the cross
-The invisible world,sipritual world, what really happened?
he became that invisible bridge between God and men
-Something spiritual happened in the invisible realm
OUR SUBSITUTE
-poeple saw Jesus as a blood man on a tree; the eye of faith sees Jesus on the cross
as our subsitute
-Jesus took our place
-He was our substitute
A Substitute take place of another
-E.g the school,where regular teacher gets released from the classroom
-Jesus as our substitute,showedup on the cross and paid for our sins
-So we could be released
-Jesus as our substitute went to hell for 3 days so we wouldnt have to go
there for eternity
-As our substitute,was raised from the dead
-we could be raised with Him all because of this!
-RECAP:teh wages of sin is death
-the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus
-Sin requires a payment
-God cant and wont wink at sin
-rather justice requires that a wage be paid for it
-wages of sin is death
-Its what happened in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve
-they sinned and death entered
-we've all sinned and we owe the debt of death!
-Jesus paid our debt
-He took our place
-He died for our sins
-He paid our wage and we got His gift
-HE PAID THE PRICE WE GOT THE GIFT
-Jesus was here
-He was on a mission and purpose
-rescue all of us from sin and death
HIS CROSS WAS OUR CROSS
-Jesus birth,life,ministry,death and resurrection were predicted before He came
-It was Isaiah that prohesied this magnificent Savoiur
-It was our weakness he carried;it was our sorrows that weighed Him down
-He was wounded and crushed for our sins
-We have left God's path to follow our own
-The Lord laid on Him the guilt and sins of us all
-who among the people realized that
-He was dying for their sins
-He was suffering their punishment
-Because of what He has experienced,my righteous servant will make it possible
for many to br counted righteous for He will bear all their sins
-He bore the sins of many and interceded for sinners(Isaiah 52:14,53:3-12)(short version)
-the cross wasnt about a man who survived beatings,mockery and torture
-is about the man who made a decision
-In the Garden of Gethsemane
-rescue mankind from the sin and eternal death that had plagued humanity since the
Garden of Eden
-His cross was our cross
-we deserved to be punished for our own sins
-He took our place
-we were crucified with Him
-Galatians 2:20
THE GRAND FINALE
-After his death,He rose again after going to hell for 3 days
-and reign again as our substitue
-He rose from the dead
-This put Jesus in a class all by Himself
-He's alive today!!!!
-Jesus did after the resurrection was to take His own blood into
heaven's most holy place,where He poured it out on the eternal mercy seat for the salvation
of mankind!
-He is our eternal high priest
-When Christ can as high priest
-He entered the Most Holy Place once for all by His own blood
having obtained eternal redemption
-How much more,then,will the blood of Christ,who through the eternal spirit
offered Himself unblemish to God
-cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death
-I have come that may have life
-The good sheperd gives His life for the sheep
-1 mediator between God and men
-Hebrews 9:7-14
-john 10:10
-1 timothy 2:5-6
DONT INSULT GOD
-light of all that we've looked at
-you see its an absolute insult to compare any past or present religion,religious leader
or icon to Jesus Christ
-they dont even are in the same class of Christ
-Jesus is the only 1 that can saves
-No one comes through the Father except through Me(john 14:6_
-he is the only one qualified to make such a statement
-Jesus died on the cross,it was blood and guts to the eyes of the physical world
-Jesus died on the cross,in the spiritual world, it was life over death
THIS IS WHY JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY
