I don't think its humanely possible to even imagine what kind of suffering our Savior went through so we could have eternal life with Him. I hope this study will brighten our understanding a little so that we will not want to hurt the One that died to save us. I surely hope that this will give us some under-standing as to what Christ went through.
Isaiah 50:6 "I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. I hid not my face from shame and spitting." Can you imagine being smitten, having your beard pulled out if you are a man, and being spit on?
Isaiah 53:5 "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed." He was wounded for our sins, and was bruised for our iniquities and with His stripes we are healed from our sinful life.
Mark 15:34 "And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me? What a horrible thought to think that your God has forsaken you. That's a horrible thought for me, if I thought He had forsaken me, which I know He hasn't. But the agony that Jesus went through He was feeling forsaken by His Father. I can't imagine that at all.
Luke 22:44 "And being in an agony He prayed more earnestly: and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." Being in such agony as sweating great drops of blood, it is so unreal to us today to imagine anything like that.
Hebrews 2:10 "For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." We can be brought to glory by the One who suffered for like this for us."
Hebrews 13:12 "Wherefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered without the gate." Jesus suffered outside the gate of Jerusalem on a hill called Golgotha.
1 Peter 3:18 "For Christ also hath once suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit." Christ did all this suffering to bring us to God and to put to death our sinful flesh and quicken us by His Spirit.
I have a simple mind, I guess because I like to say some of the verses using my own words to help me understand what the verse is saying. I hope you don't mind. You can do the same with your own thoughts. It puts a better light on it for me I hope it doesn't distract you in the least. It is very hard for me to understand and I doubt if I ever will until some day when I see Jesus face to face, what He went through on Calvary. I know it was an excruciating experience for Him, it wasn't the physical torture that He went through it was the fact that He had the sins of the whole world placed upon Him, yes your sins and mine. He suffered for all the murders, rapes, tortures, robberies, abuse, and you name it plus all the things that you would consider small sins, which I don't believe any sin is small but certainly some are much worse than others. Can you imagine all of that weight upon your shoulders? Every sin that was ever committed He suffered for. It is so hard to comprehend, I can't begin to fathom it. All I can say is, 'Thank you Lord Jesus for doing that for me' and I hope that you can say the same thing. We need to be so grateful that He carried all our sins to the cross and we do not have to pay the penalty for any of them if we have repented of them and confessed them to the Father, through Jesus. It is so important and then remember what He said to the woman that was caught in adultery, 'Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more'. Grandma Joan
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