Memorize:

Isa 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a Man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as it were a hiding of faces from Him, He being despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Introduction.

We sometimes think that the sufferings of Christ were limited to His passion, His Final agonies, but that is false. His whole life was one of suffering. He was born in a stable and placed in a manger or cattle trough. He was a refugee in Egypt as a baby when His Parents fled from Herod. He worked as a carpenter without any power tools. He was continually contradicted by the teachers of the law and the Pharisees.This was the servant life of the Lord of Hosts, the life of the Sinless One in this sin cursed world. Satan assaulted Him, people rejected Him, His enemies persecuted Him. The sufferings of His soul were even more intense than those of His Body. He was tempted by the Devil and oppressed by the world around Him. “What a man of sorrows acquainted with grief.”Is 53:3

c. The Death of Christ

Here we speak of His Death upon the Cross His Physical death. He did not die as the result of an accident nor by the hands of an assassin, but under judicial sentence and was counted among transgressors.

Isa 53:12 Therefore I will divide to Him with the great, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong; because He has poured out His soul to death; and He was counted among the transgressors; and He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for transgressors.

By suffering the Roman Punishment of CRUCIFIXION he suffered an accursed death, bearing the curse for us.

Deu 21:23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree. But you shall surely bury him that day (for he that is hanged is accursed of God), so that your land may not be defiled, which Jehovah your God gives you for an

He that is hanged is accursed of God - i. e. “Bury him that is hanged out of the way before evening: his hanging body defiles the land; for God’s curse rests on it.” The curse of God is probably regarded as lying on the malefactor because, from the fact of his being hanged, be must have been guilty of a especially atrocious breach of God’s covenant. Such an offender could not remain on the face of the earth without defiling it (compare Lev_18:25, Lev_18:28; Num_35:34). Therefore after the penalty of his crime had been inflicted, and he had hung for a time as a public example, the holy land was to be at once and entirely delivered from his presence. See Gal_3:13 for Paul’s quotation of this text and his application of it.JFB

Gal 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree");

Gal 3:14 so that the blessing of Abraham might be to the nations in Jesus Christ, and that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.

Christ has rescued us from the curse of the Law.

redeemed us — bought us off from our former bondage (Gal_4:5), and “from the curse” under which all lie who trust to the law and the works of the law for justification. The Gentile Galatians, by putting themselves under the law, were involving themselves in the curse from which Christ has redeemed the Jews primarily, and through them the Gentiles. The ransom price He paid was His own precious blood (1Pe_1:18, 1Pe_1:19; compare Mat_20:28; Act_20:28; 1Co_6:20; 1Co_7:23; 1Ti_2:6; 2Pe_2:1; Rev_5:9).

being made — Greek, “having become.”

a curse for us — Having become what we were, in our behalf, “a curse,” that we might cease to be a curse. Not merely accursed (in the concrete), but a curse in the abstract, bearing the universal curse of the whole human race. So 2Co_5:21, “Sin for us,” not sinful, but bearing the whole sin of our race, regarded as one vast aggregate of sin. See Note there. “Anathema” means “set apart to God,” to His glory, but to the person’s own destruction. “Curse,” an execration.JFB

To be continued.

MY SUMMARY OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE

Monday, 11 January 2016

My Summary of Christian Doctrine : the Person of Christ: His Humiliation (Continued)