Luke 24:6-7 “He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you,
while he was still with you in Galilee: ‘The Son of Man must be delivered
over to the hands of sinners, be crucified and on the third day be raised
again.’ ”
The gospel message is that Jesus
Christ came into the world to be the death of sin, and in His death, there
would be the salvation of the world. I read that when Jesus was on trial, the
eternal bliss or woe for countless hundreds of millions hung delicately in the
balance. But, if anyone will honestly examine Jesus’ trials (both Jewish and
Roman) there can only be one conclusion, these trials were, in almost every
detail, totally illegal. When Jesus stood before the bar of human justice, He
received nothing but injustice. But, we must keep in mind that one day we shall
all stand before the bar of divine justice.
2
Corinthians 5:21 “For He (God the
Father) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we
might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
The article pointed out though that
in another sense, the trial of Christ was perfectly legal. Looking at Jesus’
trial from the divine perspective, we see that God convicted Him of real sin –
our sin – which were imputed to Him. It was our sin that was on trial. Jesus paid the wages of sin in our place as an atoning sacrifice. In the
highest sense, Jesus was legally tired and legally condemned by God for us. How
can we ever thank Him enough?
1 John
2:2 “He (Jesus) Himself is the
propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.”
In Christ, Brian
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