Therefore, since we have been justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Through him we have also cobtained access by faith
into this grace in which we stand,
and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
-Romans 5:1-2 (ESV)
Someone has said that,
“Jesus Christ came from the bosom of the Father to the bosom of a woman. He put on humanity that we might put on divinity. He became Son of Man that we might become sons of God. He was born contrary to the laws of nature, lived in poverty, was reared in obscurity, and only once crossed the boundary of the land in which He was born-and that in His childhood.
He had no wealth or influence and had neither training nor education in the world’s schools. His relatives were inconspicuous and uninfluencial. In infancy He startled a king. In boyhood He puzzled the learned doctors. In manhood He ruled the course of nature. He walked upon the billows and hushed the sea to sleep. He healed the multitudes without medicine and made no charge for His services. He never wrote a book and yet all the libraries of the world could not hold the books about Him. He never wrote a song, yet He has furnished the theme for more songs than all songwriters together. He never founded a college, yet all the schools together cannot boast of as many students as He has.
He never practiced medicine and yet He has healed more broken hearts than all the doctors have healed broken bodies. This Jesus Christ is the star of astronomy, the rock of geology, the lion and the lamb of zoology, the harmonizer of all discords, and the healer of all diseases. Throughout history great men have come and gone, yet He lives on. Herod could not kill Him. Satan could not seduce Him. Death could not destroy Him and the grave could not hold Him.”
Amen!
Jesus Christ came to be our sin-bearer; for it took a perfect life lived as the Last Adam to bear every sin, that would ever be committed, by everyone, that would ever be saved.
Jesus Christ came to be our divine substitute; for only God the Son could endure the demands of the Law and the penalty of the Law upon the cross. He died the death we could not die for only He could endure upon the cross the eternal wrath of the Father that burns against us and our sins.
Jesus Christ came to be our Savior. In Christ alone is our redemption and salvation and sanctification and wisdom and righteousness. Christ died for God saving us from Himself so that we might live for Him!
May you each know and celebrate the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ this Resurrection weekend.
Pastor Steve Camp
The Cross Church
