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Excerpted from: Justice and GraceIf you want my opinion as to where the most brutal example of divine justice is, it is in the New Testament, not the Old. The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the crucifixion. If there was anybody who had room to complain that He was not being treated fairly, it was Jesus Christ who was not guilty of even one sin. He was the only innocent person who ever lived, and if we are going to get upset or offended at something that is seemingly unjust, this is it.
You see, the crucifixion, like the flood and the casting out of the Amorites and so forth, is at one and the same time the most just and the most gracious act in history. It would have been absolutely diabolical of God to punish Jesus if Jesus had not first taken on Himself voluntarily the sins of all the world. Even though He was innocent to that point, once He took upon Himself that concentrated mass or load of sin, He became the most repugnant thing that ever existed on earth before God. He became an obscene and accursed thing, and God executed His wrath.
There was no partiality. God could not overlook sin, even when it touched His Son. Now, it was done for us, because Christ took that justice that was to come on you and me, and He paid for it. It is that "for us" aspect that displays the majesty of the grace of God. We cringe at God's justice. Do you know why? Because it is so unusual—because most of the time, He is so gracious that human nature deceives us into taking it for granted.
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Excerpted from: Jesus in the Feasts (Part Four): AtonementYou see what Peter does here? Peter states the cause and the effect of Christ's sacrifice, very simply. Jesus bore our sins because encumbered and crushed by them, we could not live righteously. There was no way possible that we would be able to live a life that would please God.
So by taking those sins away, He gives us the opportunity to live godly lives now. Our sins kept us cut off from our Shepherd. And by accepting His awesome sacrifice for our sins, now we have returned to Him.
It is a glorious, joyous reunion that we have been called to be under Christ in this age. Why is this so important? So He could shepherd us, so that He could guide and oversee our lives because frankly, coming from the cesspool of sin, we need a Shepherd.
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