Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Christ Jesus Is The LORD Who’d Save!
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Friday, November 14, 2025
Wilhelmus à Brakel On God's Anger Toward His Son On That Cross
The curse. Christ felt in full force the curse, the execution of being accursed, Galatians 3:10-13, the wrath of God, the Lord's anger, righteously expressed upon a sinner (214)
Imagine feeling the sin in its horror, being utterly forsaken of God's favor, feeling God's wrath and anger as a Judge in righteousness in the highest degree, and then being attacked and assaulted in the most cunning and most horrific way by the power of hell at that time. What a situation it was! What a distressing state it was! Thus, Christ suffered according to the soul. (214)
Quotations take from: Christology: The Doctrine of Christ
James Durham On God's Anger Toward His Son On That Cross
Concerning the severity of Divine Justice in punishing sin, whereof its punishment in the Person of the Son of God at such a rate, is one of the greatest, clearest, and most convincing evidences imaginable, to whom he would not abate one farthing of the Elects debt, but did with holy and spotless severity exact the whole of it; And though he was the Fathers Fellow, yet he would needs have him smitten with the awakened Sword of sin-revenging Justice and Wrath: As if all the executions that had heed done in the earth on men for sin, as on the old World of the ungodly drowned by the Deluge. On the miscreant Inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah and of these other Cities, upon whom he showered down liquid flames of fire and brimstone, even somewhat of Hell in a manner out of Heaven burning them quick, and frying them to death in their own skins: On Core [Korah], Dathan, and Abiram, and their associates, upon whom the earth opened and swallowed them up in a most stupendous manner alive, the rest being consumed by fire sent down from Heaven. On the one hundred eighty five thousand men of Sennacherib's Army, all slain in one night by an Angel: And on the Israelites, who, by many and various plagues were wasted and worn out to the number of six hundred thousand fighting men in the short space of forty years; Reflections on which made Moses, a witness of all, with astonishment to cry out, Who knows the power of thy anger? As if, I say, all these terrible executions of Justice, had been done by a Sword asleep, or in the Scabbard, in comparison of the execution it did on Jesus Christ the Elects Cautioner [A cautioner is one who becomes legally liable for another’s debt if they default, a surety, a guarantor], against whom it awakened was unsheathed, furbished, and made to glitter; So that we may say, had all the Sons and Daughters of Adam, without the exception of so much as one, been eternally destroyed, it would not have been a greater demonstration of the severity of the Justice of God in punishing sin. (47)
In respect of Justice pursuing him for it; When he becometh Cautioner and full Debtor for the Elect, he is put to pay their Debt to the least Farthing; the Lord musters up against him his terrors, and commands his sword to awake and to smite the man that is his fellow. But 3ly. and mainly. In respect of his actual undergoing the Curse and Suffering, that which the Elect should have suffered; for It is not the work of a Court to pass a sentence, but also to see to the execution of the sentence only; not only are orders given to the sword to awake and smite, but the sword falls on and smites him actually; and though from the apprehension of the anger of God, as Man, and without the sensible and comforting manifestation of his Fathers love . . . . (479)
It did consist (as we hinted before) in the God-head's Suspending it's Comfortable Influence for a time from the Human Nature; Though our Lord had no Culpable Anxiety, yet He had a Sinless Fear, considering Him as Man; and that the infinite God was Angry, and Executing Angrily the Sentence of the Law against Him, (Though He was not angry at Him considered as in Himself, but as He stood in the room of the Elect, as their Cautioner, of whom He was to exact the Payment of their Debt) he could not but be in a wonderful amazement . . . . (744)
He had an inexpressible sense of grief; not only from the petty outward Afflictions that He was under; (which may be called petty comparatively, though they were very great in themselves) but also from the Torrent of Wrath flowing in, on His Soul; That Cup behooved to have a most bitter Relish, and an inconceivable Anguish with it, when He was a drinking of it, as appeared in His Agony. O! As He was Pained and Pinched in His Soul? The Soul being especially sensible of the Wrath of God. 3 It consisted in a sort of wonderful Horror, which no question, the marching up (to say so) of so many mighty Squadrons of the highly provoked Wrath of God; and making so Furious and Formidable an Assault on the Innocent Human Nature of Christ (that considered simply in itself, was a finite Creature) behooved necessarily to be attended with; Hence He prays, Father, if it be possible let this cup depart from me; Intimating, that there was a Sinless Loathness, and a holy Abhorrence to middle with it, and to adventure upon it. Though we have not Hearts rightly to conceive, nor Tongues suitable to express those most exquisite Sufferings, yet these things show, that our Lord Jesus was exceedingly put to it in His Holy Human Soul. (745)
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Thursday, October 2, 2025
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Sunday, September 21, 2025
They Would Murder Jesus Christ For Being (In Their Minds) A Racist, Misogynistic, Xenophobic, Homophobic, Transphobic, Inflammatory Bigot
Not everyone who says to me, "Lord, Lord," will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, "Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?" And then will I declare to them, "I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness." Matt. 7:21-23
Murdering Jesus Today
If Jesus were alive today, they would murder him all over again. They would murder Jesus Christ for (in their minds) being a racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, inflammatory bigot.
They Would Blaspheme And Murder Jesus As A Racist
Jesus called a Gentile (a non-Jew) a dog:
And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon." . . . And he answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs." Matt. 15:22, 26
Certain progressive leftists would condemn Jesus as a racist for saying this. In fact, they do, see: Progressive Christian Gets Jesus Completely Wrong or Was Jesus A Racist? Homosexual "Pastor" Says So
But Jesus was no racist. Demons are liars about our Lord. For a Biblical understanding of this amazing interaction Jesus had with this Gentile woman, watch Ligon Duncan preach the truth: A Pagan Woman Understands Grace. See also Chad Bird: A Cruel Christ? The Canaanite Woman's Dogged Faith When Jesus Says "No" and R. C. Sproul: The Syro-Phoenician Woman (Mark 7:24–30).
They Would Blaspheme And Murder Jesus As A Misogynist
Not only did Jesus call a Gentile a dog, He called a Gentile woman a dog (See Matt. 15:22, 26 above). Jesus was a man, truly God and truly man. And He chose only men to be His disciples. Furthermore, Jesus was also very clearly against murder, and He deeply loves the little children (Matt. 18:5-6; Matt. 19:13-15). He strongly condemns the wickedness of a woman having the choice to kill her own unborn children through abortion. It's the only unthinkable sin God mentions in the Bible. For these reasons, many today who hate Jesus would certainly charge Him with misogyny.
But they are liars. Jesus was and is the most kind, loving, humble, lover and honorer of women this world has ever seen. But they would kill Him as a misogynist.
They Would Blaspheme And Murder Jesus As A Xenophobe
A xenophobe is someone who hates or is prejudice toward people from other countries. In this same interaction with the Canaanite woman, Jesus said:
I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matt. 15:24
They would falsely accuse Jesus of only loving the Jews. But Jesus was no xenophobe. He came to shed His blood for people from every nation on earth (Rev. 5:9-10).
They Would Blaspheme And Murder Jesus As A Homophobe
Jesus taught that sexual immorality (which includes homosexual acts) is evil:
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. Matt. 15:19-20
Jesus taught that marriage is between one man and one woman:
He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate." Matt. 19:4-6
They would rage against this and kill Jesus for being a homophobe. But Jesus is the most loving Man Who ever lived. And love tells the truth. If you love homosexuals, you will tell them the truth in love. It's loving to tell people they must repent of their sins or they will go to hell forever.
They Would Blaspheme And Murder Jesus As A Transphobe
Jesus taught that God created only two genders: male and female (see Matt. 19:4-6 above).
Progressive leftists hate this, and some would even kill Jesus over it. But Jesus was no transphobe. He told the truth in love.
They Would Blaspheme And Murder Jesus As An Inflammatory Bigot
Jesus hated evil so much and loved righteousness so much and loved sinners so much that sometimes He called the wicked by the names of wild animals:
At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to Him, "Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill You." And He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I finish my course." Luke 13:31-32
Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you. Matt. 7:6
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Matt. 7:15
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? Matt. 23:33
The foxes, the dogs, the pigs, the ravenous wolves, the serpents, and all those like them and on their side would blaspheme Jesus as an inflammatory bigot and murder Him just like they did two thousand years ago. Don't be like them. Repent and believe the Gospel! Jesus was no inflammatory bigot. He was and is the most loving Man who ever lived!
Are You The "They"?
They would kill Jesus. Who are the "they"? We were all once the "they" who hated Jesus Christ and would kill Him. In a sense, we did kill Him. Our sins killed Jesus on that cross, for the cross makes murders of us all. We were all born sinners and enemies of God, hating God, and hating His absolute authority over our lives. Our only hope is to repent of all of our sins and trust in the God-Man, Jesus Christ. He died on that cross for sinners, suffering the wrath of God, and then He rose up from the dead and ascended into heaven to reign forevermore:
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Cor. 6:9-11
Please turn from your sins and trust in Jesus Christ alone by faith alone today!
Jesus Loves And Died For His Enemies
Steve Dehais writes:
The irony is the same today as in Jesus' day. They would falsely accuse Jesus for their perception of sin, but in fact He spoke the truth in love, was not afraid of men but always obeyed the Father, and died and rose for the many, for weak enemy sinners, and poured out His love into their hearts through the Holy Spirit. Lord, please send out equipped laborers for the unreached and for the blind, we pray in Christ's name, Amen.
Jesus came to save those who hate Him, blaspheme Him, and kill Him. He died on the cross and rose from the dead for those who hate Him. He loves His enemies, and He teaches His disciples to love their enemies as well. Christ followers don't mock others but more than conquer by enduring the mocking.
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. Jesus (Matt. 5:44-45)
It is only by the power of Jesus Christ and His Spirit that His followers can love and forgive, even after the wicked murder those they love the most on this earth.
Will You Follow Him In His Suffering?
Jesus was no racist, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, or inflammatory bigot. But those who hate God and hate Jesus will lie about Him and falsely accuse Him. And they will do the same to those who follow Jesus faithfully:
Jesus told us they would hate us too:
If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: "A servant is not greater than his master." If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. John 15:18-20
Jesus told us they would kill some of us too:
You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. You will be hated by all for my name's sake. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your lives. Luke 21:16-19
If no one wants to kill me, am I even a true Christian? Because I follow a crucified King Who told me the wicked would treat me like they treated Him.
It's Jesus-like, not merely political, to speak against the murder of millions of babies through abortion. It's Jesus-like, not merely political, to speak against gay and lesbian perversion. It's Jesus-like, not merely political, to speak against transgender perversion. It's Jesus-like, not merely political, to speak against the mutilation of children. It's Jesus-like, not merely political, to speak against partiality and injustice which God hates. It's Jesus-like, not merely political, to speak for rulers to be Romans 13 rulers who punish those who do evil and reward those who do good. It's Jesus-like, not merely political, to speak against the false religions of the world and tell how they are demonic. It's Jesus-like to do all this, all in love (love your enemies!), while advocating for non-violence. It's Jesus-like, not merely political, to proclaim that Jesus Christ and Him crucified and risen and reigning is returning like a Warrior-King and will crush all His and our enemies. It's Jesus-like to proclaim the Gospel and call sinners to repent and believe in Jesus. Be like Jesus.
May true Christians live such bold, loving, outspoken, godly lives in Christ Jesus that certain progressive leftists, the demons, the world, the flesh, and the devil rejoice and mock us when we die. What a glorious thing it will be to be laughed at and mocked and falsely accused by the wicked when you die! Rejoice and be glad in that day! Sing for joy! Christ is all! Jesus is King! And Jesus is worthy! That's my King!
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Kevin DeYoung On Jesus As Autotheos
John 5:19-26 is a crucial passage about the identity of Jesus Christ. At the heart of Jesus's teaching about himself is the statement he makes right in the middle of this section: "Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him" (5:23b). The point is not simply that we should honor Christ because he is the Father's Son. Rather, we must honor the Son because he is equal with the Father.It's hard to exaggerate how upsetting statements like this must have been to first-century Jews. They knew there was only one God, but now Jesus was calling God his own Father and making himself equal with God (5:18). No wonder they wanted to kill him. Everything about their religion as they understood it and their worship was being called into question.So how can God be one and the Father and the Son be equal? How can Jesus say that whoever does not the honor the Son does not honor the Father? The answer is found in five "for" (gar) statements that follow (5:19b, 20a, 21, 22, 26).• "For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise" (5:19b).• "For the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing" (5:20a).• "For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will" (5:21).• "For the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son" (5:22).• "For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself" (5:26).This last statement from verse 26 is particularly important. The phrase "life in himself" refers to the life God has because he is God. It means God is dependent on no one and contingent on nothing for his existence. The Father has this life in himself and so does the Son. They are both marked by aseity.Verse 26 supports Calvin's argument that the Son is autotheos; he is God in himself. Calvin insists that the Father was not the deifier of the Son. The Son is deity in himself. His divinity is in no way subordinate to the Father. To be sure, the Son’s in-himself-life came from the Father in one sense, by an eternal grant (to use Augustine's language). But we must not take the language of "eternal grant" to support the contention (made by Arminius, among others) that only the Father was autotheos, and not the Son. As we might expect, Turretin's distinction is helpful: "So the Son is God from himself although not the Son from himself." That is to say, the Son is God-of-himself (autotheos) with respect to his essence, but not with respect to his person.The phrase "life in himself" in verse 26 is a perfect, pregnant phrase. Jesus has both clarified the charge in verse 18 and reaffirmed it. He is not another God, an independent God, or a second God. He only does what the Father does. And consequently, he ought to receive what the Father receives; namely, glory and honor. The Son can exercise divine judgment and produce in us resurrection life because he is, himself, the self-existent one. We will not find the true God except in and through his Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. (Week 24, Day 116, Pages 169-170)





















