Jesus Was So Disfigured That He Did Not Even Look Like A Man

Just as many were appalled at You - His appearance was so disfigured that He did not look like a man, and His form did not resemble a human being . . . . Isaiah 52:14

Petrus Van Mastricht on the horrific physical sufferings of Jesus on His way to and on the cross:

Christ's natural death has, first, its beginning, and in this beginning, besides the mortality inborn in him:

1) Weakening, brought upon him externally by various distresses, being led from place to place, the imposition of the cross, and other things

2) That among the disciples, he was betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, deserted by all

3) He was declared by every kind of person, and especially by the leaders, to be a madman, demoniac, Samaritan, reveler, profane man, impostor, blasphemer, seducer, magician, rebel, and invader from another kingdom; he was rejected by the people, valued less than the worst sort of murderer, and crucified in the middle of two thieves

4) He was stripped of his clothing

5) Furthermore, when he was arrested, he was shamefully dragged from court to court, as if he were a thief

6) He suffered the most unjust judgments, as much ecclesiastical, under the priests Ananias and Caiaphas, as political, under Pilate and Herod the Tetrarch

7) He was mocked, spat upon, beaten, mangled with a thorny crown, first before Caiaphas, then before Herod, and finally before Pilate and his officials and soldiers

8) Furthermore, like a villain, with his body stripped naked, in a place of infamy between two thieves, he endured a savage, shameful, and cursed kind of punishment, preceded also by a thousand insults, by a drink steeped with gall and myrrh, and by a sarcastic inscription on the placard

9) Finally, he suffered in all the parts and members of his body: his ears were filled with mockeries, his head battered with a reed, and lacerated with thorns, his body scourged, his mouth given vinegar and gall to drink, his face disgraced with spit, his shoulders burdened with the wood of the cross, his side pierced, his arms extended over the cross, his hands and feet affixed to the cross with nails, his blood from all his veins poured out, his heart melted with anguish, and so forth (Theoretical-Practical Theology, Redemption in Christ, Vol. 4, 2023, page 411).

Jesus endured all of this AND the forsakenness of God, AND the anger of God, AND the damnation of God because of His great love with which He loved sinners so that we might NEVER be forsaken by God, AND NEVER bear God's anger, AND NEVER endure God's damnation, but enjoy God's smile and love for all eternity where there is fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore!

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

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Helen Roseveare And The Worthiness Of Christ

A powerful story told about missionary Helen Roseveare:

Helen Roseveare grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Helen Roseveare became a skilled surgeon. All her life, both before and after she came to Christ, and she came to Christ during her university days, Helen Roseveare had a motto. And her motto was in the form of a question, and the question was this: “Is it worth it?” Is it worth it? And she would ask and honestly answer that question before she did anything. Before she went out on a day with a guy, she would say, “Is it worth it?” Before she would buy a book at Barnes and Noble and read it, she’d say, “Is it worth it?” Before she took a course in college, she’d say, “Is it worth it?”

And by asking and answering that question honestly, she became a very well-educated, disciplined, young woman physician. And after she graduated from Cambridge and got her hospital training, she gave her life to the Lord for missionary service in the northeast corner of the Belgian Congo in the community of Nobobongo. And she served their in the fifties and sixties eleven solid years of sacrificial, loving service to the African people. She did leprosy work, children’s work, built a hospital, built a Bible school. And then, in 1964 the Simba Uprising took place in the Congo, what we here in distant America called the Congo Rebellion. And the tribal people rose up, and the foreigners were ruthlessly treated.

Helen Roseveare went through that. Now I didn’t know anything about that, I did’t know anything about her, and I’ll never forget the first time I met her. I was a guest teacher for ten weeks at Columbia Bible College in South Carolina. My wife and I and our four kids were living in the men’s dorm in two dorm rooms that they put together in a makeshift little apartment for us. We were living there for ten weeks while I taught several courses in the school. And one night at nine o’clock at night, word came through the men’s dormitory that all the men were to leave their studies, and to go to the central lobby, because a woman missionary was passing through campus that evening, she couldn’t stay for the next day, and so they wanted the men to hear her give a brief word of testimony about her missionary work in Africa.

Well, to be real honest with you, none of the boys were very excited, you know. But the school said they had to do it, so we all went to the main lobby of the men’s dorm, and when we got there, the guys were in there, they were draped over the couches, sitting on the floor, and kind of looking like they didn’t want to be there. And, and then two of the school administrators walked in with Dr. Roseveare standing between the them, and when we saw her, everybody’s worst fears were well-founded, because she looked like a missionary. Whatever that means.

Simple cotton dress. Gray hair pulled back in a bit of a bun. Very thick, coke-bottle glasses, because her eyesight was not good. And she was tired. So somebody grabbed a gray, folding, metal Samsonite chair and put it in the middle of the floor, and she sat on it, and they said, ah, “Gentlemen, this woman, Dr. Roseveare, has just come through our campus, we just want her to share a little bit of her experience with you tonight.” And so she started to give her testimony. And being the astute woman that she is, about two minutes into her testimony, she knew that most of those guys were not interested at all, and so she stopped.

And she said, “You know what, boys, I don’t want to bore you with the details of my life. You’ve probably heard different stories and so forth. So, it’s late, why don’t we just take another five, ten minutes or so and, and I’ll just answer questions. Maybe, you know, you have a question, I’d rather talk about the things you’re interested.” And this kid immediately stuck his hand up, I feel sorry for him to this day, he stuck his hand up, and he said, he said, “Yeah I’ve got a question,” he said, “You know, we’ve got missionaries coming through here all the time, and, and they’re always talking about, you know, paying the price and suffering for Jesus – what did you ever suffer for Jesus?” She sat there and looked at him and, without any bitterness or any anger, she said, “Well, during the Simba Uprising, I was raped twice.” Everything got real quiet.

And then she told us about the rape. She told us how the government soldiers came to her bungalow that night, came inside, ransacked it, grabbed her, beat her, threw her to the floor, kicked in all of her teeth. And then two army officers, one at a time, took her to her own bedroom and violated her body by raping her. And then, after the second incident, she was dragged from that bungalow out into a clearing and tied to a tree. And standing around the tree were all the laughing government soldiers. And then, while she was standing there, beaten and humiliated and violated and ridiculed, someone discovered in the bungalow the only existing hand-written manuscript of a book that she had been writing about the Lord’s work in the Congo over an eleven year period. They brought it out, put it on the ground in front of her, and burned it.

And as she saw that book go up in smoke, through clenched teeth, she said to herself: “Is it worth it? Is it really worth it? Eleven years of my life poured out in selfless service for the African people and now this.” And then she told those boys in that dormitory room that night as we all sat there spellbound, she said, “And boys, the minute I said that, God’s Holy Spirit settled over that terrible scene, and He began to speak to me, and this is what He said. He said to me: ‘Helen, my daughter Helen, you’ve been asking the wrong question all your life. Helen, the question is not, “Is it worth it?” The question is: “Am I worthy?” Am I, the Lord Jesus who gave His life for you, worthy for you to make this kind of sacrifice for me?'” And by her own tearful testimony she told us how God broke her heart, she looked up into the face of Jesus and said, “Oh Lord Jesus, yes, it is worth it, for thou art worthy.”

Hallelujah! What a Savior! Yes, Jesus is worthy: 

Revelation 5:1-10: Then I saw in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a scroll written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?" And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I began to weep loudly because no one was found worthy to open the scroll or to look into it. And one of the elders said to me, "Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals." And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he went and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. And when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each holding a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. And they sang a new song, saying, "Worthy are you to take the scroll and to open its seals, for you were slain, and by your blood you ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation, and you have made them a kingdom and priests to our God, and they shall reign on the earth." 

More On Helen Roseveare

1. A Woman of Whom the World Was Not Worthy: Helen Roseveare (1925-2016) by Justin Taylor

2. A Call for the Perseverance of the Saints by Helen Roseveare at the 2007 Desiring God National Conference

3. Speaker Panel Q and A at the 2007 Desiring God National Conference

God And The Gospel

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Christ Jesus’ Cross On Full Display!

Christ Jesus’ Cross On Full Display

Shows God’s Righteous, Holy Way

And Sin’s Great Evil, Death, Decay

But God Is Sovereign, Holds All Sway

And Gave An Actual Atonement Day

God Crushed His Son, His Loved One Slay

The Triune God Would Win And Say

“I Love Lost Sinners Gone Astray!”

Christ Died And Rose For All He’d Pay

His Death Takes All Our Sins Away

And Shows Us How To Live Today

We Die And Sacrifice His Way

The Power Of The Cross Survey

Will Strengthen Us To Love Display

We Serve And Sacrifice And Pray

For Christ Is All Our Hope And Stay!

God And The Gospel

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The Mothers Of The Kings Of Judah And The Serpent Crushing King Of Kings!

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel. Genesis 3:15

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 1 John 3:8

Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered . . . . Revelation 5:5

I was reading the book of Kings with a friend, and she keenly noticed in the section we were reading, often the mothers' names of the righteous kings are mentioned, but the mothers' names of the wicked kings are not. After further research, I found this:

1. Of all the 20 kings of Judah, every time the Bible speaks of them becoming king, with only 2 exceptions, every other time their mothers' names are explicitly mentioned. 18 mothers! 7 of these kings were righteous, while 13 were wicked (Amaziah is sort of on the borderline).

2. Of all the 19 kings of Israel (all of which are evil), with 1 exception (Jeroboam I - a transition period), their mothers' names are never explicitly mentioned at all when they became king.

So generally, the mothers' names of the kings of Judah are recorded. But the mothers' names of the kings of Israel are not recorded.

Guess what kings' names are recorded in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1? The line of Judah whose mothers' names are mentioned! 

I'm not sure about the significance of this, but I wonder if the mothers' names being mentioned serves to highlight and emphasize the fact that the Seed of the WOMAN, the righteous King of all kings, would eventually come to crush the head of the serpent on that cross?!

Then, I asked Dr. Iain Duguid about this (he's my favorite O.T. scholar in the whole world! And he answered my email at 2:19am! - what a blessing!), and he directed me to this excellent article in the Tyndale Bulletin: "MOTHERS OF OFFSPRING IN 1–2 KINGS A MESSIANIC HOPE IN DAVID’S LINE?" by Jesse R. Scheumann

Scheumann comes to my same conclusion! Here are some highlights from Scheumann's article:

Summary

In the books of 1 and 2 Kings, the mothers of Judaean kings are given a unique focus in being mentioned. Historically-minded scholars, neglecting a more message-minded approach, have not sufficiently explored why this is the case. However, when viewed as an allusion to Genesis 3:15, the focus on mothers reveals a literary marking of each Judaean king as an offspring of the woman, maintaining messianic hope within a dark period of Judah’s history.

Genesis 3:15 Sightings In Kings (these are AMAZING!)

It is likely that the editor of Kings has the Genesis 3 account in mind, because there are three probable allusions to this passage in the narrative. Before David publically announces his successor, Adonijah exalts himself as king (1 Kgs 1:5). Adonijah, however, is an imposter, since David has promised that Solomon would reign next (1 Kgs 1:13, 17, 24, 30), and the reader is told that Adonijah is sacrificing ‘by the Serpent’s Stone’ (1:9). Adonijah is, at least literarily, allied with the serpent. Solomon describes David’s military victories in the language of Genesis 3:15, declaring that ‘God put them [his enemies] under the soles of his feet’ (1 Kgs 5:3; cf. Gen. 22:17b; 24:60; 49:8; Num. 24:7, 17–19). Hezekiah’s actions are compared to David’s (2 Kgs 18:3), and the editor relates next that ‘he beat into pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made’ (2 Kgs 18:4), because it was used as a place of sacrifice. Again, at least literarily, Hezekiah defeats the serpent to secure sole devotion to God.

Conclusion

Attention given to mothers in Kings contributes to the book’s message in a twofold way. First, only mentioning the Judaean mothers strengthens a dichotomy between Israel and Judah as distinct, rival lines. Even the Judaean kings J(eh)oram and Ahaz, whose mother’s names are omitted, are evaluated as walking like Israelite kings. The evil of Israel is spread to Judah through Jezebel and her daughter Athaliah, who attempted to exterminate David’s offspring. Second, frequently mentioning the Judaean mothers animates the hope that one of David’s offspring would be the serpent-crushing offspring of the woman. The true Judaean line is marked by kings whose mothers’ names are given, literarily marking them as offspring of the woman. This line of promise is preserved in times of peril by Bathsheba and Jehosheba. Even in exile, hope remains kindled in the continuation of David’s line through Jehoiachin. Although many scholars have made a strong case for a messianic reading of Genesis 3:15, they have done so almost exclusively from the angle of ‘offspring of the woman’. In doing so, they have produced a truncated Messianism, because Scripture also develops Genesis 3:15 from the complementary angle of ‘mother of the offspring’. This study suggests that the editor of Kings focuses on motherhood, a theme throughout Scripture, to highlight how the line of promise is preserved and to heighten hope that the Messiah will yet come.

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

I've been reading the Bible in a year for almost 30 years, and I've never seen this before! There is always more to see in God's Word! Keep reading! Keep meditating! And keep praying!

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Jesus Was Treated Like A Disowned Son

Why did Jesus cry out, "My God! My God!" on that cross and not, "My Father! My Father!"?

Because the Truine God loved sinners so much that Jesus was treated like a disowned son on that cross, so that all who repent and believe in Him might be adopted as God’s sons & daughters forever!

Joel Beeke: The consciousness of His son-ship seems to recede. I don't say He loses it altogether, but the sense of sinner-ship - the sense of 2 Cor. 5:21: "He Who knew no sin became sin that we may be made the righteousness of God in Him" - overwhelms Him! Engulfs Him! Submerges Him! & He cries out of the depths of it: "My God! My God!" . . . He began by crying out on the cross: "Father". He ended in the seventh cross word by crying out: "Father". But in this middle cross word, the sense of son-ship has receded. The sense of sinner-ship has come to the foreground . . . In this moment when He became the anathema of God and bore the curse of God, He does not cry out, “My Father!”. When He enters His suffering on the cross, He cries out, “Father! Forgive them, for they know not what they do!”. When He leaves His suffering and dies, He says, “Father! Into Thy hands I commit My spirit!”. But in this three hour period, in His own self image, He's not the beloved son, with Whom the Father is well pleased. He sees, He feels not His son-ship, but only sinner-hood. He becomes sin, not son. He becomes the cursed one, the vile one, the repulsive one, the foul one. (Also see here.)

Ian Hamilton: He cannot say Abba. All He can say is "My God!" Abba is out of reach. The Father & the Son had gone together up to Calvary . . .  but now there is no sense of His divine son-ship. There is no sense of the Father's love . . . fellowship with His Father was lost . . . He endured hell for you that you might never endure hell!

William Shishko: It's the word "Eloi" - God, powerful God, a God known . . . in His raw, almighty actions . . . in His terrors. Jesus here utters words in which He is exposed to the terrors and the power of God - to Whom He has no liberty to call "Father" at this time . . . [Jesus is asking] "Why am I now in the place of those who will one day be told: 'Depart from Me! I never knew you!'" . . . that One of Whom the Father had said, "I am well pleased!" is the One of Whom the Father would now say, "He is vile. He is repulsive. He must be cast out of My sight."

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

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Christ Jesus Endured Our Hellish Damnation!

Christ Jesus Endured Our Hellish Damnation

For That Is The Heart Of Propitiation

The Curse Of The LORD Was His Condemnation

The Opposite Of God's Blessed Proclamation

And Even Worse Did Christ Pay For Our Salvation

For He's The Innocent Son Incarnation

Who's Made To Be Sin By God's Imputation

And Finished God's Wrath Forever Cessation

He Died And Then Rose For Our Justification

By Faith Alone He Saves From Every Nation

By His Spirit He Works For Our Sanctification

And He'll Hold Us Fast Until Glorification

Where We'll Praise His Name In Glad Celebration

For He Is Our All And Preoccupation!

God And The Gospel

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Christ Jesus Is God's Anger Propitiation!

Christ Jesus Is God's Anger Propitiation

They'll Say Christ Bore God's Wrath For Every Nation

But Deny God Was Angry With Him Our Salvation

Of The Heart Of The Gospel That's A Castration

Not Precise Theological Thought Interpretation

Since Christ Was Made Sin On The Cross By Imputation

God's Word Says He Was Angry With The Beloved Incarnation

Psalm 89:38, Crushed, Struck, Cursed, Full Damnation

Drank God's Cup Of Anger: Hell's Fury Summation

Pierced With God's Sword Of Anger Retaliation

God Did Not Spare Any Anger Conflagration 

Toward Christ According To His Human Nature Mediation

He Died And Then Rose For Our Justification

So Please Don't Propitiate God's Propitiation

For This Is Our Only Hope Of Salvation

Through Him Who's Our All And Praise Adoration!

God And The Gospel

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Christ Jesus God Did Crush, Forsake!

Christ Jesus God Did Crush, Forsake

Rejected, Lost – Make No Mistake

Christ Didn’t Only Feel The Break

For All Our Sins God Did Him Make

God’s Anger On His Head He’d Take

And Die In Wrath – God’s Furry Lake

With Deepest Anguish – Hellish Ache

But Then Christ Rose Alive Awake

Caused The Earth To Move And Quake

It’s Here That Jesus Crushed The Snake

By Faith Alone We’re Just, Then Make

Progress In Holiness Partake

All For The Praise Of God’s Name Sake

We Boast And Shout And Dance And Shake

For God, Will Us, Never Forsake!

God And The Gospel

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Christ Jesus Died Like One Disowned!

Christ Jesus Died Like One Disowned

Cried Out “My God!” Not “Father!” Moaned

Though Son He Was And Not Dethroned

His Consciousness Of Sonship Groaned

He Died Forsaken, Cursed As Stoned

Yet Always Trusted God Enthroned

For Lost, Dead Sinners He Atoned

Then Rose Alive And Death Dethroned

By Faith Alone By God We’re Owned

Because Christ Suffered, Died, And Groaned

By God We’ll Never Be Disowned

We Are His Children Loved And Honed

So Praise His Name! Our King Enthroned!

God And The Gospel

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The LORD Was Angry With Christ For Our Sakes!

 

I started reading through Deuteronomy in my Bible reading plan yesterday. I again saw this note in the picture above from a study Bible I read and made notes in early on in my Christian life. I'm so thankful that the truth of the cross in all of Scripture was being made clear to me, even way back then. Yes, like with Moses (and unlike Moses, since Jesus knew no sin), God was angry with Jesus on that cross for our sakes because our sins were imputed to Him (2 Cor. 5:21). Hallelujah! What a Savior! This truth is repeated three times in Deuteronomy:

1. Deut. 1:37: The LORD was also angry with me for your sakes, saying,"Even you shall not go in there"

Think of Jesus: the LORD was angry with Jesus on that cross for our sakes as He suffered outside the gate - Jesus too was not allowed "to go in there" so that we might "go in there" forever where there's fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore!

2. Deut. 3:26: But the LORD was angry with me on your account, and would not listen to me. So the LORD said to me: "Enough of that! Speak no more to Me of this matter."

Think of Jesus: the LORD was also angry with Jesus on that cross for our sakes, and would not listen to Him (in a sense) in Gethsemane when He prayed for another way or when He cried out: "My God! My God! Why have You forsaken Me?!"

3. Deut. 4:21: Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I would not enter the good land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Think of Jesus: the LORD was also angry with Jesus on that cross for our sakes, and shut His Son out from all good and poured out on Him: crushing, striking, the sword of His anger, the cup of His anger, cursing, smiting, forsakenness, not sparing any judgment, and death. So that now, we who trust in Jesus Christ by grace alone through faith alone shall never face any of that judgment! 

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

A. W. Pink listed 75 ways that Moses is a type of Christ. This is #71:

71. His Death was for the benefit of God's people. It went ill with Moses for their sakes" (Ps. 106:32); "But the Lord was wroth [very angry] with me for your sakes" (Deut. 3:26). What marvelous foreshadowings of the Cross were these!

Amen!

Also noting how Moses is a type of Christ, Geerhardus Vos wrote about how Moses, like a mediator, was willing to bear the punishment of the guilty:

He may be fitly called the redeemer of the Old Testament. Nearly all the terms in use of the redemption of the New Testament can be traced back to his time. There was in his work such a close connection between revealing words and redeeming acts as can be parallelled only from the life of Christ. And the acts of Moses were to a high degree supernatural, miraculous acts. This typical relation of Moses to Christ can easily be traced in each of the three offices we are accustomed to distinguish in the soteric work of Christ . . . Moses intercedes for Israel after the commissioning of the sin of the golden calf, and that by offering his own person vicariously for bearing the punishment of the guilty [Ex. 32:30-33].

About Moses, Nick Batzig writes:

Moses was a type of Christ in that he was the typical Redeemer of the Old Covenant. He was the only other Mediator between God and His people in redemptive history; and though his mediation was also typical, He stood in the most unique position as the redeemer and lawgiver of the Covenant people. Jesus is THE Mediator between God and man–since He is both God and man. Just as Moses had a supernatural deliverance at his birth, so did Jesus. Just as Moses led Israel out of Egypt, into the wilderness, up on the mountain to give them the law, so Jesus went down into Egypt, up from Egypt, through the water, into the wilderness and up on the mountain to give God’s people the law. Jesus leads His people out of bondage to Satan, sin and death through His own “exodus” (Luke 9:31) in His death and resurrection.

Praise God that He sent us a Redeemer, Mediator, Law Giver, Law Keeper, Deliverer, Prophet, Priest, and King greater than Moses Who could actually bear the infinite anger of the LORD for our sakes, pay the penalty for all of our sins, rise up triumphantly from the dead, conquer sin, death, and hell, and ascend into heaven and sit at the right hand of God the Father almighty and save us from our sins! 

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

God And The Gospel

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The Day The Sun Failed: The Light Of The World Died In Darkness

Matt. 27:45: Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

When Jesus was born, the sky became bright in the middle of the night.
When Jesus died, the sky became dark in the middle of the day.
When God created the world, He turned the lights on.
When God saved the world, He turned the lights off. H. B. Charles

Intro: There was a day the sun failed: when the Light of the world died, the world became darkness. Jesus’ death on the cross is God’s judgment & punishment of His own beloved Son, so that we will never face God’s punishment! One way God punishes sin & judges sin is with darkness. Darkness is a judgment of God & is symbolic of the judgment of God.

J. C. Ryle: Was he scourged? It was that “through his stripes we might be healed.” Was he condemned, though innocent? It was that we might be acquitted, though guilty. Did he wear a crown of thorns? It was that we might wear the crown of glory. Was he stripped of his [clothing]? It was that we might be clothed in everlasting righteousness. Was he mocked & reviled? It was that we might be honored & blessed. Was he reckoned a [criminal], & numbered among transgressors? It was that we might be reckoned innocent, & justified from all sin. Was he declared unable to save himself? It was that he might be able to save others to the uttermost. Did he die at last, & that the most painful & disgraceful of deaths? It was that we might live forevermore, & be exalted to the highest glory. [Was He judged to death in darkness? It was so that we might be set free to everlasting life in light!]

Jesus bore the darkness of God’s anger, so that you might enjoy the light of God’s love forever!

1. Why did God create darkness and light?

- Nick Batzig: When God first formed the heavens & the earth, Moses tells us that “the earth was without form & void, & that darkness spread across the face of the deep.” It was into this world of darkness that God spoke those very first words, “Let there be light!” The point of Gen. 1:3 is not for you to try to understand scientifically how there could have been light without the luminary bodies, but to learn the theological rationale for light in the world. 1) God made light so that man could see the glories of His handiwork in creation. 2) God made light without a sun so that man would understand that all things derived their life & preservation from God apart from the means to which we are tempted to attribute power & sustenance. 3) (& most important to our considerations here), God is telling us something about the redemptive work that will occur after the fall of man.

- R. A. Finlayson: God is at work as of old in a progressive development of light. We remember that, in the first creation, light came progressively. It was not the sun in its meridian splendor that shone; indeed there is evidence that the sun had come at a much later period than the light. But the light did come, it came to wax & grow. And it is significant that at every period in God’s creative work, we read, “And the evening & the morning were the first day, the evening & the morning were the second day”, & so on. Why should it be “evening & morning?” This is not after the manner of man’s toil; he works from morning to evening. It is not enough to say that this is a Jewish division of time. We have to get behind that Jewish division of time, & ask how it came about that the Jew was taught to regard time as moving from evening to morning. It was God’s pattern of workmanship. He is always facing the light, his back is on the evening, his face is towards the waxing light, and the rising sun. And if that was true in the natural creation, it is blessedly true in the spiritual creation. [Reformation: After darkness, light!]

2. God is sovereign over all the darkness: 

Isa. 45:7: I form light & create darkness, I make well-being & create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things

3. Darkness is used by God for cursing and judgment: 

- Ex. 10:21-23: the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt." So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the people of Israel had light where they lived. [The plague right before killing the of firstborn!]

- Deut. 28:5, 28: But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments & his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you & overtake you . . . The LORD will strike you with madness & blindness & confusion of mind, & you shall grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, & you shall not prosper in your ways.

- 1 Sam. 2:9: He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.

- Nah. 1:7-8: The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him. But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, & will pursue his enemies into darkness

- Matt. 24:29: Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

- Rev. 16:10: The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish

- Matt. 8:11-12: I tell you, many will come from east & west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Two other places: Matt. 22:13; 25:30) (Jesus took this!)

Jesus bore the darkness of God’s anger, so that you might enjoy the light of God’s love forever!

4. Darkness represents sadness and mourning: 

Job 3:1-9: After this Job opened his mouth & cursed the day of his birth. & Job said: "Let the day perish on which I was born, & the night that said, 'A man is conceived.' Let that day be darkness! May God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it. Let gloom & deep darkness claim it. Let clouds dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it. That night – let thick darkness seize it! Let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months. Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful cry enter it. Let those curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up Leviathan. Let the stars of its dawn be dark [Dark/Darkness is mentioned 42 times in the book of Job!] (Jesus took our sadness!)

5. Darkness is a curse prayed over God’s enemies:

- Ps. 35:6: Let their way be dark & slippery, with the angel of the LORD pursuing them!

- Ps. 69:23-24: Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, & make their loins tremble continually. Pour out your indignation upon them, & let your burning anger overtake them. (Jesus bore the curse for us!)

6. Darkness is associated with death:

- Ps. 107:10, 14: Some sat in darkness & in the shadow of death . . . He brought them out of darkness & the shadow of death

- Ps. 143:3: the enemy has pursued my soul; he has crushed my life to the ground; he has made me sit in darkness like those long dead. (Jesus died for us!) 

7. Darkness is associated with sin:

- Prov. 4:19: The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.

- Isa. 5:20: Woe to those who call evil good & good evil, who put darkness for light & light for darkness

- Matt. 6:22-23: The eye is the lamp of the body. So, if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness

- Jn. 3:19: this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, & people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

- Rom. 1:21: For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, & their foolish hearts were darkened.

Jesus bore the darkness of God’s anger, so that you might enjoy the light of God’s love forever!

8. The Day of the LORD is the day of God’s judgment, and it is a day of darkness:

- When you read about the Day of the LORD in the Old Testament, remember that all the anger & judgment of God associated with that day fell upon Jesus on that cross so that we might be saved!

1) On that cross, God was fiercely angry with Jesus: Isa. 13:9-13: Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the land a desolation & to destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of the heavens & their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, & the moon will not shed its light. I will punish the world for its evil, & the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pomp of the arrogant, & lay low the pompous pride of the ruthless. I will make people more rare than fine gold, & mankind than the gold of Ophir. Therefore I will make the heavens tremble, & the earth will be shaken out of its place, at the wrath of the LORD of hosts in the day of his fierce anger.

2) On that cross, God struck down Jesus with His sword of anger: Jer. 46:10: That day is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour & be sated & drink its fill of their blood.

3) On that cross, God's anger covered Jesus in darkness: Joel 2:31: The sun shall be turned to darkness, & the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes.

- Amos 5:20: Is not the day of the LORD darkness, and not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

- Zeph. 1:14-15: The great day of the LORD is near, near & hastening fast; the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter; the mighty man cries aloud there. A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress & anguish, a day of ruin & devastation, a day of darkness & gloom, a day of clouds & thick darkness

- The Day of the LORD was executed upon Jesus on that cross so that we will never face the terrifying descriptions of the Day of the LORD at the end of history! Hallelujah! What a Savior!

9. God brings light out of the darkness:

- Ps. 18:28: For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.

- Ps. 112:4: Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, & righteous.

- Isa. 42:16: I will turn the darkness before them into light (Jesus brought light like no other!) 

10. God does His greatest work of love and grace and mercy in and through darkness:

Gen. 15:12, 17-18: As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. & behold, dreadful & great darkness fell upon him . . . When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, "To your offspring I give this land (Flood; Joseph; Exodus; Barren wombs [Sarah, Mary])

a. Jesus’ death: Matt. 27:45: Now from the sixth hour [noon] there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. [3pm] Ligon Duncan: About the time of the evening sacrifice.

- Origen quotes historian Phlegon: . . . the day was so turned into night that the stars appeared.

- Lk. 23:44-45: It was now about the sixth hour, & there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, while the sun's light failed. [The sun failed!] [Lk. 22:32: I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail.]

- Josh. 10 & 2 Kings 20 & Isa. 38: Sun stood still at Gibeon (battle); Shadow moved back 10 steps (Hezekiah)

- Ps. 88:6, 18: You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark & deep . . . You have caused my beloved & my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness.

- R. C. Sproul: The attendant darkness on the land signifies the removal of the benediction of God (“The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace” Num. 6:24–26). In His presence is light. The ultimate desired destination was to see the glory of God. But the darkness on the land at noon is God removing all favor from Christ, the cursed One. This dereliction is in sharp contrast to “My Beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased.”

b. Jesus’ resurrection: Jn. 20:1: Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

- Mk. 16:1-2: When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, & Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2 & very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.

- B. B. Warfield: Jesus is the destroyer of all darkness.

- Jonathan Edwards: He who made the sun to be a type of Christ saw [it fitting] that when Christ died, [it] should be darkened, that while Christ's sufferings on the cross continued, and he was deprived of joy and comfort, the sun should be deprived of light. That the sun is a type of Christ was probably one reason why Christ's resurrection was about the time of the rising of the sun, i.e. its first rising by its light, because the rising of the sun is a type of the resurrection of Christ, as the sun's setting is a type of the death of Christ.

Jesus bore the darkness of God’s anger, so that you might enjoy the light of God’s love forever!

11. Jesus is the Light of the world:

- Matt. 4:16-17: the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, & for those dwelling in the region & shadow of death, on them a light has dawned." From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

- Jn. 1:1-9: In the beginning was the Word, & the Word was with God, & the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, & without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, & the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, & the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

- Jn. 8:12: Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

- Jn. 12:46: I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

- D. A. Carson: The light metaphor is steeped in Old Testament allusions. The glory of the very presence of God in the cloud that led the children of Israel to the Promised Land (Ex. 13:21-22) & protected them from those who would destroy them (Ex. 14:19-25). The Israelites were trained to sing, "The LORD is my light & my salvation" (Ps. 27:1). The word of God, the law of God is a light to guide the path of those who cherish instruction (Ps. 119:105; Prov. 6:23); God's light is shed in revelation (Ezek. 1:4, 13, 26-28) & salvation (Hab. 3:3-4). Light is Yahweh in action (Ps. 44:3). Isaiah tells us that the servant of the LORD was appointed as a light to the Gentiles, that he might bring God's salvation to the ends of the earth.

- Kennedy Adarkwa: Throughout history, nobody has made such bold, unapologetic, & emphatic statement besides Jesus. Herod the Great could not make such a statement; Caesar Augustus could not make such a proposition. Julius Caesar could not make such affirmation. Napoleon Bonaparte could not make such an assertion. Moses did not make such proclamation. Buddha could not make such a declaration. Krishna could not make such an announcement. Muhammad could not make such an utterance. The reason is obvious. These were . . . leaders in their own right, but all of them were mortals & finite. Death would not allow them to utter such a declaration. This is a statement of Deity; it is a declaration of Divinity & Immortality. [Jesus is God!]

12. God saves us by shining the light of His glory in Christ in our hearts:

- 2 Cor. 4:6: For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

- Col. 1:13-14: He has delivered us from the domain of darkness & transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

13. In Christ, we no longer walk in darkness:

- Rom. 13:12-14: The night is far gone; the day is at hand. So then let us cast off the works of darkness & put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies & drunkenness, not in sexual immorality & sensuality, not in quarreling & jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, & make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

- Eph. 5:6-11: Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not become partners with them; for at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good & right & true), & try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

- 1 Pet. 2:9: But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

- Mic. 7:7-9: I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD will be a light to me. I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause & executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.

- 1 Jn. 1:5-9: This is the message we have heard from him & proclaim to you, that God is light, & in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, & the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, & the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful & just to forgive us our sins & to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Jesus bore the darkness of God’s anger, so that you might enjoy the light of God’s love forever!

14. We are called to turn people from darkness to light:

Acts 26:16-18: But rise & stand upon your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to appoint you as a servant & witness to the things in which you have seen me & to those in which I will appear to you, delivering you from your people & from the Gentiles – to whom I am sending you to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins & a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

15. Someday, there will be no darkness – at all – forever:

Rev. 21:22-23, 22:3-5: I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty & the Lamb. 23 & the city has no need of sun or moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, & its lamp is the Lamb . . . No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God & of the Lamb will be in it, & his servants will worship him. They will see his face, & his name will be on their foreheads. & night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, & they will reign forever and ever.

Christ Jesus Died In Darkest Night

Though It Was Day At Noontime Light

He Bore God's Outer Darkness Fright

Like Those In Hell The Flames Ignite

Like Curses From The Egypt Flight

Darkness Is God’s Angry Smite

He Crushed His Son With All His Might

Forsaken, Dead His Hellish Plight

Appeared Not As A Man By Sight

He Died To Take Your Darkest Night

And Paid For All Your Sins Outright

Then Rose Alive God’s True Delight

By Faith Alone You're Just, Made Right

His Holy Spirit Does Ignite

In You Good Works, Makes Garments Bright

For Christ Is Now Your Living Light

Your All In All And Chief Delight!

God And The Gospel

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Resources On Darkness And Light

1. A Biblical Theology Of Light And Darkness by Nick Batzig

2. The Destroyer Of All Darkness by Nick Batzig

3. Light And Darkness by Ligonier

4. Darkness To Light by Thomas White

Christ Jesus Died In Darkest Night!

Christ Jesus Died In Darkest Night

Though It Was Day At Noontime Light

He Bore God's Outer Darkness Fright

Like Those In Hell The Flames Ignite

Like Curses From The Egypt Flight

Darkness Is God’s Angry Smite

He Crushed His Son With All His Might

Forsaken, Dead His Hellish Plight

Appeared Not As A Man By Sight

He Died To Take Your Darkest Night

And Paid For All Your Sins Outright

Then Rose Alive God’s True Delight

By Faith Alone You're Just, Made Right

His Holy Spirit Does Ignite

In You Good Works, Makes Garments Bright

For Christ Is Now Your Living Light

Your All In All And Chief Delight!

God And The Gospel

To learn more about the great and true Triune God, the God-Man, Jesus Christ, His cross, and His glorious Gospel message and everlasting Kingship, please watch American Gospel: Christ Alone. You can watch the full documentary here with a free, 3 day trial.

God's Anger Toward His Son Displayed In The Book Of Lamentations

I had never noticed this before! I was reading the book of Lamentations, and I kept smelling the cross of Jesus Christ all over it - seeing parallel after parallel of what Jesus suffered on the cross! Of course! The cross is the Lamentation of all lamentations! And Jesus endured the greatest lamentation on that cross so that we might never lament again for all eternity in the presence of God where there's fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore! He will wipe away every tear someday!

It also confirms that God was angry with Jesus on the cross so that He might never be angry with us in Hell!

Hallelujah! What a Savior!

So I checked to see if anyone has written on this, and sure enough, C. J. Williams has written a book: The Shadow Of Christ In The Book Of Lamentations: A Guide To Grieving With Faith

About this book, Joel Beeke writes:

Especially intriguing is his thesis that we often hear the voice of Christ in Lamentations, revealing the supreme and substitutionary sufferer. This is an excellent resource for preachers, teachers, and students of the Holy Scriptures.

On Lamentations, Graeme Goldsworthy writes:

For ultimately, this biblical book must be seen as Christ’s cry from the cross, as he suffers for the sin Lamentations mourns.

See how the book of Lamentations points us to the cross:

* Lam 1:1: has become a slave.

Phil 2:7: made Himself nothing, taking the form of a slave

* Lam 1:3: Judah has gone into exile because of affliction

Heb 13:12: So Jesus also suffered outside the gate

* Lam 1:6: all her majesty is departed

Isa 53:2: He had no form or majesty that we should look at Him

* Lam 1:11: for I am despised

Isa 53: He was despised and rejected by men

* Lam 1:12: Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow

Isa 53:3: a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief

* Lam 1:12: which the LORD inflicted on the day of His fierce anger

Isa 53:4,10: we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

Gal 3:13: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"

* Lam 1:14: He caused My strength to fail; the Lord gave Me into the hands of those whom I cannot withstand.

Ps 22:15: My strength is dried up like a potsherd

* Lam 2:3: He has cut down in fierce anger all the might of Israel; he has withdrawn from them his right hand in the face of the enemy; he has burned like a flaming fire in Jacob, consuming all around. [See also Lam 3:53-54 as well for the "cut off" language]

Isa 53:8: He was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?

Dan 9:26: the Anointed One will be cut off and will have nothing

* Lam 2:4: He has killed all who were delightful in our eyes

Matt 3:17: This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

Rom 8:32: He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all

* Lam 2:4-5: He has poured out His fury like fire. The Lord has become like an enemy

Matt 27:46: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

* Lam 2:6: in His fierce indignation has spurned king and priest

Rom 8:32: He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all

* Lam 2:7: The Lord has scorned His altar, disowned His sanctuary

John 2:21: But he was speaking about the temple of his body.

* Lam 2:12: Life is poured out

Ps 22:14: I am poured out like water

Isa 53:12: Because He poured out His soul to death

Matt 26:28: this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

* Lam 2:15: All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads

Ps 22:7: All who see Me mock Me; they make mouths at Me; they wag their heads

Matt 27:39: those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads

* Lam 2:21: my young men have fallen by the sword; you have killed them in the day of your anger, slaughtering without pity.

Matt 26:31: For it is written, "I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered."

* Lam 3:1: I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of His wrath

John 19:5: Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!"

Isa 53:4: yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

* Lam 3:2,6: He has driven and brought me into darkness without any light . . . He has made me dwell in darkness

Matt 27:45: Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.

* Lam 3:4: He has made my flesh and my skin waste away

Ps 22:17: I can count all my bones - they stare and gloat over me

* Lam 3:8: though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer

Matt 27:46: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

* Lam 3:43-44: You have wrapped Yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity; You have wrapped Yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.

Matt 27:46: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

* Lam 3:45: You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.

2 Cor 5:21: For our sake He made Him to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.

* Lam 3:53: They have cut off in a pit my life, And they cast a stone against me.

Matt 27:66:  So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.

* Lam 3:54: The waters flowed over my head; I said, "I am cut off!"

Luke 12:50: I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is my distress until it is accomplished!

 * Lam 4:11: The LORD gave full vent to His wrath; He poured out His hot anger, and He kindled a fire in Zion that consumed its foundations.

Rom 3:25: Whom God put forward as a propitiation by His blood

* Lam 4:20: the LORD's Anointed, was captured in their pits

John 18:12: So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound Him.

* Lam 4:21: to you also the cup shall pass

Matt 26:39: "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will."

* Lam 5:7: Our fathers sinned, and are not more; and we bear their iniquities

Isa 53:5: But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities

* Lam 5:12: Princes are hung up by their hands

Gal 3:13: Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"

* Lam 5: and boys stagger under loads of wood

Luke 23:26: And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.

* Lam 5:20: why do You forsake us for so many days?

Matt 27:46: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

* Lam 5:22: and You remain exceedingly angry with us.

Matt 27:46: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

God And The Gospel

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Christ Jesus They’d Mock And Deride!

Christ Jesus They’d Mock And Deride

He Is God’s Temple Crucified

The Son Of God Pierced In His Side

He Could Come Down, But He Complied

He Did Save Others When He Died

The God-Man King They Crucified

With Two Robbers Side By Side

My God Why I’m Forsaken Cried

He Bore God’s Wrath For Sinners Died

Then Rose Again To Save Worldwide

Converting Those Who Did Deride

Into His Loving Precious Bride

This All By Mercy He’ll Provide

By Faith Alone In Him We Hide

And Live For Him, By Faith Abide

In Him Where All Our Joy’s Supplied!

God And The Gospel

To learn more about the great and true Triune God, the God-Man, Jesus Christ, His cross, and His glorious Gospel message and everlasting Kingship, please watch American Gospel: Christ Alone. You can watch the full documentary here with a free, 3 day trial.