August 14, 2020
FROM YOUR PASTOR’S DESK:
HOW THE CREATOR ‘PURGED’ AND ‘MADE AN END OF SINS’ IN HIS ADOPTED HUMAN NATURE
“Christ in earth gave a demonstration in earth when humanity is fully yielded to Him. In ‘the body prepared for Him,’ He was tempted as men are tempted. ‘He was oppressed and He was afflicted;’ ‘He hath borne our griefs, and carried out sorrows;’ was ‘wounded for our transgressions’ and ‘bruised for our iniquities.’ He ‘was despised and rejected of men,’ ‘poured out His soul unto death: and He was numbered with the transgressors;’ He ‘bare the sin of many’ and ‘made his soul an offering for sin.’ Because of this He was ‘to justify many [not everyone]: for He shall bear their inquiries.”
Isa. 58.
“This presents Christ as Sin-bearer. ‘God made Him to be SIN for us, who KNEW NO SIN.’ 2 Cor. 5:21. ‘His own self bare our sins in His body on the tree.’ ”
1 Pet. 2:24.
“He was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.’ Heb. 4:15. In the body prepared for Him, He gained the victory over every temptation, repelled every advance of Satan, triumphed over every obstacle, until Satan at last had no more ‘arrows’ in His quiver to point at Him. ‘The prince of this world,” said Christ, and hath nothing in Me.’ John 14:30. [Not even once in thought did Christ yield to any and all of Satan’s temptations!].”
M.L. Andreasen, The Book of Hebrews, pp.54,55.
“Think on these things.” Bless all! NMF