CHRIST ON THE CROSS: HIS PORTION

 

CHRIST ON THE CROSS: HIS PORTION

Isaiah 53:10-12

Isaiah predicted that not only would Jesus come and die, He would come for a purpose. We cannot understand Jesus or live for Him unless we can understand His portion in life. What makes Jesus stand out from all the other people who have died cruel deaths before and after Him?

Jesus did not just die, He died to lay down His life for our sins. No one who has ever lived on earth was qualified to die for our sins except for Jesus. He did what no one else could ever do, He lived a sinless life. 10 He alone was able to satisfy God’s wrath against sin. He laid down His life, no one took it from Him. Everyone who participated in Jesus’ death was helpless to stop doing what they did. Jesus had to die.

Jesus died to lift off the curse of sin from our souls. God’s holiness demanded that he who would sin against Him must experience the death of their soul. No one with a heart full of sin could be with Him. Jesus, who knew no sin, is perfectly righteous and holy before God. He broke down the curtain that separated sinful man from God. He stands between us and God and is our righteousness and holiness so we can draw near to God.

God commands us to be holy, even as He is holy. When Jesus rules our hearts, we become a holy people, a people after God’s own heart. We become victors over sin instead of victims to it. Instead of living in sin to sin, we live in Christ to sin no more.

Jesus not only paved the way for us to be a people well-pleasing to God, He is the way. He forever changes our standing before God when we abide in Him. He changes our hearts. He changes our thinking. He changes our living. The old us gives way to the new us.

Jesus did not die in vain when we open up our hearts and lives to Him. He forgives our sins when we confess them to Him and ask for His forgiveness. He takes the controls away from us and gives us a new life, and abundant life, now and forever. But for those who reject Him, nothing changes in their lives. They remain slaves to their sins and hell awaits them when they die. They spend their lives without hope and die without hope of ever escaping hell’s clutches.

Is Jesus your Savior and Lord today?