Who for the Joy that was set before HIM endured the CROSS, despising the shame. Exceeding sorrow was on Christ Jesus when my Sins were laid on HIM, but Joy crossed His mind when He saw that I would be rescued from my sinful state/bondage through His sufferings and bloody death. JESUS tasted DEATH for every man, even me. JESUS bore my Sins, so that I will never come into Condemnation. The full Penalty of my Sins was laid on HIM. Substitution is the heart of the Gospel, the root of the whole matter: my heart is Joyful when I hear the Truth of the Gospel. The HOLY CREATOR can only reconcile your guilty Soul back to HIMSELF *BY THE CROSS*. (Ephesians 2:16)
The Son of God Himself, assuming human flesh in the womb of Mary, living a sinless life here on Earth, and in His flesh bleeding and dying in my place and stead: this is the Revelation of revelations, the Wonder of wonders, the GLORY of the Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God. Your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your Sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear. But God is RICH IN MERCY, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; He came to seek and to save that which was Lost. The Gospel is very precious to the repenting heart, but the Gospel is all terror to the obstinate rejecter of Christ. Your Faith in God must be fixated in the Precious Blood of Christ Jesus, JEHOVAH manifest in the flesh.
Rejecting Christ and loving sins only hardens your heart into cold steel. Put your Trust in the Substitute for sinners, and be spared from your just eternal death sentence. JESUS paid the dire consequences due to Divine Vengeance, Wrath, and Justice for all my sins, iniquities, transgressions, wickedness, ungodliness. The Lord Jesus Christ endured reproach, pain, suffering, humiliation, bloody death on the behalf of guilty sinners like you and me. JESUS kept and magnified the LAW of God perfectly, and His Soul turned into Sin and made an Offering for SIN. JESUS endured Grief and Affliction on my behalf at Gethsemane, Gabbatha, and Golgotha for me. The LORD JESUS CHRIST offered up Himself as a willing Surety and Substitute for all of guilty mankind. JESUS died the dreadful death, nailed naked to the CROSS like a guilty felon, between two thieves/malefactors, He was numbered with the transgressors, utterly forsaken and friendless, the object of cruel ridicule as He was writhing in agony bleeding and pouring out His own life's BLOOD, as He was bearing MY SINS in His own body on the TREE. NOW Turn your Heart's Eyes to the Lamb of God on Calvary's TREE, and see the Son of God in agonies of body and Soul for your transgressions against God Himself.
JESUS was born of a Jewish virgin; He was the stepson of a Jewish carpenter. He wore a peasant's coat. He was friends with fisherman, nobodies, publicans and sinners. (II Cor 8:9) The Gospel without Christ's Personal Blood ATONEMENT for human sin is like a body without the Soul. The CROSS is the Stumblingblock of the Gospel of Christ. The Gospel is a stumblingblock to self-righteous religionists, and utter foolishness to educated scorning smart alecks: you must receive the Gospel as a little child, believe in thine heart that God raised JESUS from the dead, repent of your Sins, renounce your self-righteousness, believe and receive the Lord Jesus Christ in thine heart for yourself. The Gospel is very humbling to self-sufficient human nature. Proud hectoring human nature wants to save itself its own way.
The Gospel of the CROSS OF CHRIST is an offence to human nature, that is, the Gospel needs no grand oratory, no flowery speech, no worldly philosophy, no cogent arguments, no words of splendor, no dazzling of the intellect; but the Gospel is simple words of Truth and Soberness put to you plainly, humbly, coarsely. Very simple words: Believe/Receive JESUS and Live Eternally at once. Quit your sinning against God, and your rejecting of His dear Son. Christ Jesus suffered in your place, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring you back to God by His free grace. The common people heard JESUS gladly, will you?. Immediate, Eternal, Irreversible, Free SALVATION is yours for the taking Now. From your heart, Cast away your righteousness, and Cry Out to JESUS Now a great deal: Have Mercy on ME, Save my guilty Soul! If you want go to Heaven, Trust/Receive JESUS CHRIST; if you want to go to 🔥Hell🔥, just trust something else. I am going to Heaven *BY THE CROSS*, and nothing else.
