Christ Jesus Spoke Like None Before!

Christ Jesus Spoke Like None Before

Or Ever Since So Praise! Adore!

His Words Give Life And Joy Galore

He Is The Life – Hope’s Guarantor

He Is God’s Word In Flesh And More

He’s God And Man You Can’t Ignore

His Words Are Pure Down To The Core

Wise Like A Bubbling Brook They Soar

Yet He Would Die – God’s Wrath He Bore

The Temple’s Open – Curtain Tore

He Rose Again To Life Restore

Trust Him Alone – Salvation’s Door

Then You Will Speak Not As Before

He’ll Change Your Heart And Words And More

All Sinful Words You Will Abhor

And On Them Make An All Out War

For Christ Is All The Word Adore

We Live To Please Him More And More!

God And The Gospel

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Christ Jesus Came His Church To Save!

Christ Jesus Came His Church To Save

Community That’s One And Brave

Deals With Conflict, Loves, Forgave

For On God’s Hands Our Names Engrave

Like Him We Love And Act – He’d Pave

A Way To Give Just Like He Gave

For Jesus Died – Our Sins Forgave

Then Rose Alive Up From That Grave

Now We’re His Friends – Not Just His Slave

He’s Elder Brother Strong And Brave

Our Friend Like None We Always Crave

Our God Who Loves And Came To Save!

God And The Gospel

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Wilhelmus à Brakel On Forsakenness And God's Anger Toward His Son On That Cross

Wilhelmus à Brakel on the anger of God 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

On the forsakenness of Christ and anger of God toward His Son on that cross (The Reasonable Service Of God, Volume 1): 

The greatness of His soul's suffering also appears from His complaint on the cross: Matt. 27:46 My God! my God! why hast Thou forsaken Me? He was not forsaken by the Divine nature, that personal bond could not be dissolved. He was also not forsaken by the love of the Father, which remained unchangeable. He was not forsaken by the Holy Spirit, with whom He was abundantly anointed. He does not complain of being forsaken into the hands of men; but He complains of the withholding of the manifestation of all light, love, help, comfort, and that for that time and in that time, when the distress was at its greatest, and He had the most need of them. When Christ says why? That is not an inquiry into the cause, but a moving expression of grief. It was not despair, for He said: My God, Father, but an expression that indicates the most comfortless, most helpless, and most sorrowful state. (Page 790)

2. The separation from God; and His wrath. Christ felt in full force the separation from God on account of sin. It is not to be conceived nor expressed what terror, what unrest, what darkness, what dreariness, what a sorrowful state it is, when God in indignation wholly and entirely separates Himself from a sinner, withdraws from him all favor, grace, light; forsakes him, casts him off, and leaves him standing there alone, where a person cannot live without having refreshment in something. To have a soul that cannot satisfy itself, that can do nothing but continually desire to be filled with something from without, and then to have nothing with which it can be filled, and to miss God, who alone is the satisfaction of a rational creature, to stand there hollow and wailing, in the entire separation from God, it is not to be borne nor endured. This shall be the eternal punishment of the ungodly: 2 Thess. 1:9. Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction, from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power. This the elect had deserved, this the Lord Jesus bears in their place; this was greater soul-anguish than we can comprehend. (Pages 791-792)

3. The curse. Christ felt in full force the curse, the execution of being accursed, Gal. 3:10, 13, the wrath of God, the anger of the Lord, in righteousness pouring itself out upon a sinner, Nahum 1:2. The dreadfulness of falling into the hands of the living God. Heb. 10:31. God being to someone a terror, Jer. 17:17. As this cannot be understood by anyone who has not felt it, so it can only barely be known by someone who has felt it only in its beginning or by approximation, and by no one be fully comprehended and expressed. (Page 792)

Christ has indeed suffered eternal damnation: for eternal damnation, death, and pain consists in the total separation from God, in the total outpouring of God's wrath, and that so long until all is perfectly borne, and was sufficient as punishment for sin. Now, this Christ has suffered in its full force; see this above, par. 3, 4, 5, 6. This He suffered so long and to such a degree, until He could say: It is finished, John 19:30. I have finished the work which Thou hast given Me to do, John 17:4. (Page 808) 

One might think that Christ's human nature, according to which alone He suffered, was finite, and therefore could not bear the infinite, and so the suffering was not sufficient for payment of sin, which deserves eternal punishment. Answer. How far Christ's human nature was strengthened is not for us to determine, but it always remained finite; Christ according to that nature bore the complete deprivation and the perfect wrath of the infinite God, against whom the elect had sinned. Yet one must carefully note that the human nature did not suffer, but the Person according to that nature, and because the Person was infinite, everything He suffered was also of an infinite power and worth. (Pages 808-809)

Contemplate the suffering of Christ for comfort against likesuffering. I need not assure you that such suffering in soul and body will befall you in this world; you know that well enough by experience, you perhaps taste it even now at present. You will still often experience the bitterness of sins, the displeasure of God over them, the hiding of God's countenance, the bondage and terror of conscience, the fear of death, the anguish on account of damnation, the assaults of Satan, poverty, contempt and scorn, both through your own fault and for godliness' sake and the name of Christ, tribulations for the Word's sake, though you do not regard it so. Perhaps you will yet be called to martyrdom, to seal the truth with your blood, also pains and sorrows of the body, yea indeed all manner of suffering of Christ, the one more, the other less. (Page 849)

From The Reasonable Service Of God, Volume 2:

God withdrew from Him all light and manifestation of favor, and filled Him with His wrath and vengeance. He cries out in the anguish of His spirit: My God! My God! why hast Thou forsaken Me? (Page 712)

God And The Gospel

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James Durham On God's Anger Toward His Son On That Cross

James Durham on the anger of God 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)

All quotations from: Christ Crucified: 72 Sermons on the whole 53rd Chapter of Isaiah

God And The Gospel

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"That's My King!" In Proverbs 17!

Christ Jesus Is The Prince Of Peace

Though Poor, Not Having Many Feasts

He’s Meek And Lowly, Our High Priest

Who Causes Joy To Increase

He Took All Strife In His Decease

Died, God’s Wrath He Did Appease

Then Rose Again To Make Death Cease

And Now He Grants Us All His Peace

Who Trust In Him And Sins Release

He Is Our All, Our Treasure Piece

We Will, With Him, Forever Feast

Who All God’s Pleasures Will Increase!

That's my King!

Christ Jesus Like A Father Came

There’s No One Like Him, None The Same

Provides, Protects, And Loves! Exclaim!

Gentle And Lowly, Strong Not Tame

He Gave Himself To Bear Our Shame

Under God’s Wrath He’s Set Aflame

He Died And Rose, Death Overcame

By Faith Alone His Sons Became

Now Christ-likeness Is Our Aim

God The Father – Praise His Name!

God The Son – We Spread His Fame!

God The Spirit – Hearts Inflame!

Our Triune God – Give All Acclaim

Our Crown, Our Glory – He’s Our Aim!

That's my King! Do you know Him?!

Christ Jesus Is The Son Who Rules

With All Wisdom, Evil Cools

Has More Knowledge Than Every School

Yet Counted Sin As Wicked Fools

Killed As Breaker Of God’s Rules

Bore God’s Wrath Forever Cools

Then Rose Alive, He’s Heaven’s Jewels

By Faith Alone He Saves The Fools

And Makes Us Wise – His Spirit Rules

For Him, We’ll Leave All Earthly Jewels

And With All Wisdom Live His Rules!

That's my King!

Christ Jesus Suffered – Past The Test

He’s Gold And Silver – Treasure Chest

Endured The Crucible The Best

And Even When His Friends Depressed

They All Would Run At His Arrest

He’d Die To Finally Give Them Rest

Bore All God’s Wrath – Was Crushed, Distressed

And Died Your Greatest Friend Oppressed

Then Rose Again With Power And Zest

Now Death Is Dead And Can’t Molest

By Faith Alone In Him You’re Dressed

He Takes The Saddest Spirits Pressed

And Fills Your Hearts With Joy Possessed

He’s Medicine – Your Happy Quest

All Because He Passed God’s Test

There’s No One Like Him – He’s The Best!

That's my King!

Christ Jesus Made And Rules The Tongue

He’s God Of Truth – Truth From Him Sprung

He Never Sinned With Heart Or Tongue

Kept Silent When Foes Cursed And Swung

Took No Bribe, Nor Mocked, Nor Stung

But Covers All Offense And Hung

With Love Upon That Cross And Flung

All Our Sins Away Among

The Deepest Ocean Floors Are Slung

All Because God’s Wrath Him Stung

He Died And Rose Again And Sprung

Up From The Tomb – Brings New Life Young

By Faith Alone To Him We’ve Clung

He Changes Hearts And Changed Our Tongue

We Count All Loss And Filth And Dung

Compared To Christ Who For Us Hung

His Praises Now Forever Sung

For He’s Our God Who Healed Our Tongue!

That's my King! I wonder if you know Him today?!

Christ Jesus Is Holy And Never Rebelled

God’s Wise, Perfect Messenger Only Excelled

He’s God In The Flesh – With Men He Has Dwelled

All Evil And Foolishness He Has Expelled

Hates All Transgression And Truth Has Impelled

He Died On That Cross Where God’s Presence Withheld

Forsaken And Crushed – In Anguish He Yelled

Then Rose From The Dead – New Life He Propelled

By Faith Alone Our Salvation Is Spelled

Now By His Spirit In Christ We Are Held

And In Us God’s Wisdom And Righteousness Swelled

God’s Laws And His Word And His Glory Upheld

All Because Christ In God’s Wisdom Excelled!

That's my King!

Christ Jesus Is Our God Who’s Just

He’s Truly Man With Perfect Trust

In God His Father’s Plan Robust

Yet His Own Son Would Die For Dust

In Him God’s Angry Sword Would Thrust

Christ Died And Rose For The Unjust

By Faith Alone In Him We’re Just

Now We Repent From Every Lust

We Hate All Sin With True Disgust

Do Righteousness And God Entrust

For Him Who Is Our Only Must

He’s Made Our Hearts For Him Combust

Who Is Our God Who Made Us Just!

That's my King! That's my King!

God And The Gospel

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Christ Jesus Is Our God Who’s Just!

Christ Jesus Is Our God Who’s Just

He’s Truly Man With Perfect Trust

In God His Father’s Plan Robust

Yet His Own Son Would Die For Dust

In Him God’s Angry Sword Would Thrust

Christ Died And Rose For The Unjust

By Faith Alone In Him We’re Just

Now We Repent From Every Lust

We Hate All Sin With True Disgust

Do Righteousness And God Entrust

For Him Who Is Our Only Must

He’s Made Our Hearts For Him Combust

Who Is Our God Who Made Us Just!

God And The Gospel

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Christ Jesus Is Holy And Never Rebelled!

Christ Jesus Is Holy And Never Rebelled

God’s Wise, Perfect Messenger Only Excelled

He’s God In The Flesh – With Men He Has Dwelled

All Evil And Foolishness He Has Expelled

Hates All Transgression And Truth Has Impelled

He Died On That Cross Where God’s Presence Withheld

Forsaken And Crushed – In Anguish He Yelled

Then Rose From The Dead – New Life He Propelled

By Faith Alone Our Salvation Is Spelled

Now By His Spirit In Christ We Are Held

And In Us God’s Wisdom And Righteousness Swelled

God’s Laws And His Word And His Glory Upheld

All Because Christ In God’s Wisdom Excelled!

God And The Gospel

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