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that Christ uttered in the midst of his passion, out of the darkness, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Awful suffering. Suffering, thank God, that we will never know. I call your attention this morning to Christ's suffering and our suffering in order next week, God willing, to call at
First of all, the nature of his sufferings, according to the Catechism, is that he sustained in body and in soul the wrath of God against the sins of all mankind. We need to be clear about the sufferings of Christ, that he was not merely enduring troublesome circumstances. Jesus Christ was not
Certainly this was suffering for Christ. After this, of course, Christ suffered all through His life. Try to picture, for instance, the Holy Christ walking in the streets of today. How it would pain Him to see His own chosen ones going along with the world, cursing and fighting against Him. We can u
Christ, Cross, Suffering
So those three things this evening. Christ's suffering includes many different things. And the Heidelberg Catechism is right when it says that especially at the end of his life, he suffered. We saw that in Psalm 22. All the emphasis there is on his suffering as it reached its worst during those l
God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform. God suffered. When we think of the suffering of our Lord, our attention is usually drawn to the short time immediately before his death, to the crown of thorns, the buffetings at the hands of the soldiers and the spiritual agony of separation fro
If you compare the Catechism to the Apostles' Creed, you will notice that in this and the next Lord's Day the Catechism moves very slowly through the creed, stopping at every word and asking a question. The reason is that here we are looking at the greatest historical event, which is also the grande
Suffering for Christ’s sake, therefore, is an absolute must. Not because Christ’s work for us is insufficient. Nor because the effect of His suffering depends upon our suffering. But because our suffering is the inevitable result of His suffering. Hence, you cannot have the one without the other. Wh
The catechism describes in three ways The lifelong suffering of Christ takes all that we know of the sufferings of Christ in scripture and says, first of all, when we think of the lifelong suffering of Christ, it means this, that he sustained in body and soul the wrath of God against sin, the s