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Now why did Jesus thus die? Not to show us how a good man dies; not to teach us how even before the threat of death to remain true to our convictions; nor to prove that martyrdom is better than compromise. No, it was because in and by His death He must bear the curse of God against sin. The curse of
Christ's Death and Its Significance We are coming to the close of the season of Lent, that season of the year in which the church more than at any other time meditates upon and preaches about the suffering and death of our Savior on Calvary's Cross. In fact, just three days after you are supposed t
Christ’s suffering and death would have been defective had not Christ risen from the dead. The outward signs of a mocked Christ, a dying Savior, and a dead body, reveal to us nothing but defeat and subjugation. Though it be by his death that we are reconciled to God, satisfaction given to God’s just
The death of Jesus Christ It's the heart and center of the Christian faith. The heart and center of our theology. The heart and center of all true preaching of the Gospel. 1 Corinthians 2, verse 2, the Apostle says, For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him cruc
About The Death of Christ From a Grand Rapids reader we received the following question: "What death did our Lord Jesus Christ die on the cross? Men that sin are dead; and when they pass on, they pass on into eternal death. The believers' punishment, including eternal death, is laid upon our Lord
Question and answer 42, since then Christ died for us, why must we also die? 43, what further benefit do we receive from the sacrifice and death of Christ on the cross? And even though question and answer 44 does not mention Christ's death explicitly, it too is dealing with Christ's death in as
Finally we did crucify and kill Him. Yet, only as we are in Him whom we slew, do we love Him, follow Him, and become willing to die for Him. Does not therefore Christmas also point out to us the second advent of Christ when He shall come to receive us unto Himself in final glory? As the world tried
And all of human history that follows thereafter can only be understood in the light of what Jesus Christ endured at Calvary. The death of Jesus Christ is at the heart of the Christian faith, of the theology that we believe and confess from the heart, and is at the heart of the preaching of the
Our Lord Himself had challenged the rulers in Jerusalem, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." On another occasion Jesus reminded them of Jonah who was three days and three nights in the belly of the fish, as prophecy of His death and burial. Repeatedly Jesus had forewarned Hi
And then secondly, seeking to apply that to ourselves, we consider the meaning of our death and burial. And then finally, we look at the descent of Christ into hell. A study of the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, reveals to us that Jesus Christ of Nazareth, when he was about 33 yea