Adrian Rogers: The Purpose of His Passion [#2465]

welcome to love worth fun with pastor teacher and author Adrian Rogers reaching out with God's love bringing people to Christ touching lives around the world and helping you find the answers you need today join us as we prepare to open God's Word and discover how your life can be changed forever by his great love worth finding we're going to get Isaiah chapter 53 and then we're going to move to the New Testament to see what the Prophet was talking about turn to Isaiah chapter 53 in a moment we're going to look at verses five and the six 700 years before Jesus Christ in the flesh walk the dusty shores of Galilee 700 years before that the prophet Isaiah dipped his pen in gold and glory and wrote some amazing words that have an effect on us here in the 21st century Isaiah chapter 53 verse 4 surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God and afflicted 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 all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all now with that in your mind I want you to fast-forward in the Bible all the way to the book of first Peter chapter 3 and verse 18 and I want us to look at this verse that bass in the light of a prophecy of Isaiah so long ago first Peter chapter 3 verse 18 but Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God there it is folks Christ also hath once suffered for sin but just for the unjust all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the LORD hath laid on him on Jesus the iniquity of us all there's enough gospel dynamite in those verses if ignited by the spark of faith to blow the sin the hatred the discouragement the confusion out of any heart and give a hope that is steadfast and sure we're talking this morning on the purpose of his passion why did Jesus Christ died upon that cross the greatest tragedy the world ever knew took place on an ugly hill just outside at the ancient city of Jerusalem where the Son of God hung upon a cross where darkness veiled the glowing face of the Sun when there was an earthquake and the earth shook and trembled and the rocks split were Satan and the dark forces of hell were battering against the very gates of glory Jesus in agony and blood was dying now the question comes why why the cross why did Jesus have to die after all is him God a God of love and after all isn't God all-powerful now for loving God wanted to forgive sin why couldn't God just say are you sorry for your sin okay I forgive you question why did Jesus have to die what was the purpose of his passion you're going to learn that Calvary was not only the Earth's greatest tragedy but it was God's greatest triumph there was a purpose in all of this God had a reason for it as a matter of fact a reason that was so deep and so great that your destiny and my destiny is wrapped up in it one more time I turn your attention to first Peter chapter 3 verse 18 for Christ also hath once suffered for sin the just for the unjust now I want to lay several thoughts on your heart this morning the first is this the substitutionary purpose of the cross get it down if you don't understand that the purpose of the cross was a substitution for us than you miss the whole thing Christ also hath once suffered for sin the just for the unjust that is he the just one took our place we the unjust he died for us he died instead of us Jesus Christ did not die as a martyr he was not a helpless victim he said no man takes my life from me I lay down on myself nor did Jesus Christ die as an example though it was the greatest example of sacrifice the world has ever known that was not the major purpose of his death Jesus upon that cross died as a substitute now look at what Peter said God is just the just what does that mean he is perfectly totally completely righteous and holy his just now being just he cannot overlook sin if you were to go through all of the dictionaries and the lectionaries of the world to find one word would describe God what do you think that word would be most people would say well that word would be love what he is love he is infinite love matchless love indescribable thousand --less love he is love amazing love but if you were to find one word of course know one word nor all the words can describe God but if you had to be reduced to one word it would be the word holy holy God is holy holy holy holy is the Lord God of hosts God is holy now what does that mean it means that God is the complete other the complete antithesis of sin God being so holy his holiness burns against sin his holiness says that sin is a clenched fist in his face sin is a repudiation of all that God is God is holy he is the just one we are the unjust if you would take one word that would describe man by nature just one word it would have to be the word sin sin we are the unjust the just for the unjust so here's a holy God and here is sinful man man is the complete other the antithesis of God all have sinned and come short of the glory of God the glory of God is this holiness our condition is that we have sinned and come short of the glory now as you read the newspaper today or any day you read about murder you be to read about rape you read about homosexual marriage you will read about corporate scandal you will read about insider trading you will read about terrorism you'll read about all of these things but I doubt in today's newspaper you'll find the word sin used one one time you will put into words and use no we don't like the idea of sin man may be ill but is not evil man may be weak but he's not weak we don't like the word sin but Fred the problem is sin yes I am for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God so here is the problem God is holy he's the just we are unholy we are the unjust now God has a problem if we could speak respectfully about God having a problem how could God a holy God punish sin and love the sinner at the same time that's the problem well the problem is solved by Calvary God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself here the doctor not only makes a house call leaves heaven in comes to earth but the doctor himself makes the patient well by taking the patient's sickness he dies the just for the unjust here this time the judge not only adjudicates the criminal guilty but then the judge steps from behind the bench and goes out and stands in the place of the accused and takes the punishment upon himself the just for the unjust you'll never understand the cross until you understand the principle of a substitution Jesus Christ died for us now God cannot just overlook sin if God were to just simply overlook sin God would not be just I've told you before they say in a court of law when a guilty man is acquitted the judge is condemned if God would just say my love allows that sin to go unpunished then God though some might call him loving would be unjust God would be unholy he would topple from his throne of holiness God himself would have broken his own law that says the wages of sin is death the soul that sinneth it will surely die no God must be just God cannot merely overlook sin but God is a God of infinite love so God allowed his son the Lord Jesus Christ to take that sin upon himself and go to the cross therefore the cross is not an accident it is not an incident it is not an afterthought the Bible teaches that the cross was in the heart and mind of God before the world was ever framed putting your Marge in Revelation chapter 13 and verse 8 the Bible speaks there of Jesus as the lamb slain before the foundation of the earth before God framed this universe before God flung out the Sun Moon and stars scooped out the oceans and heaped up the mountains before you were ever born God saw the cross Jesus Christ was born in the shadow of the Cross if you open this book the Bible and begin in the very first book of the Bible you're going to find there is the cross is pictured prophesied and portrayed when Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden and they tried to hide their shame with fig leaves what did God do God clothed them with coats of skin animal skin well when you do Flay an animal when you skin an animal there is shed blood that's not incidental let's put there in the Garden of Eden to teach us that we need a covering for shame and that covering cannot come apart from shed blood Hebrews chapter 9 and verse 22 tells us without shedding of blood is no remission there is a river of blood that begins in the book of Genesis we see that Adam and Eve had two sons Cain and Abel the two sons came to make a sacrifice to God one son was a keeper of the flocks the other son was a farmer Cain tried to offer to God fruits and vegetables the fruit of the ground but God said cursed is the ground and here he is offering to God the works of his own hands it may have been beautiful it may have looked like a County Fair fruits and flowers and vegetables but the Bible said God had no respect to that offering then this time Abel the other son took the firstlings of the flock a lamb and slew the lamb and offered that to God and the Bible says God had respect to Abel's offering why was this without shedding of blood is no remission God destroyed the world with a flood God saved Noah and seven others with him and they came out of the ark what's the first thing that Noah did when he came out of that Ark into a new world he offered a blood sacrifice upon an altar why the red river is flowing without any without shedding of blood is no remission God takes the first Hebrew his name is Abraham and God calls Abraham out of paganism and God reveals himself to Abraham and God says Abraham I'm going to give you a son through that son all the nations of the world will be blessed Abraham Smith to old have a son my wife her womb is dead God said he's a son of miracle I'm going to give you a miracle son Abraham loved that son whose name is laughter Isaac and then when he was a young strapping boy God said to Abraham Abraham Abraham take Isaac take him to a place I will show you a very certain place and offer him up there a burnt sacrifice shed his blood Abraham can't believe it but he knows if God wants him to do this he must believe it because God will raise him from the dead because God has made a promise no one day Abraham is called the father of the faithful Abraham took Isaac to Mount Moriah as we're going to see later on became mountain Calvary and when Abraham is about to plunge the knife into the quivering bosom of his own dear son he hears a voice from heaven saying Abraham hold your hand don't kill the lad don't do it look over here Abraham and Abraham sees over here a ram with his horns caught in a thicket a ram if you will crown with thorns and God says Abraham offer that Ram in the place of your son Isaac is unbound the RAM is slain what is this again he is talking about sacrifice and he's showing Abraham without shedding of blood is no remission and so here an innocent animal dies in the place of Isaac this Red River blood continues to flow into Egypt the people of Abraham have become a nation their slaves in Egypt God is going to deliver them from Egypt and they're getting ready to go and make an exodus out of Egypt and God says to Moses Moses tell the people to take a lamb and kill that lamb and put the blood of that lamb upon the doorpost of the house because this night in the land of Egypt by death angel my angel of vengeance is going to come through the land and he's going to be looking for houses that have the blood on the doorpost and Moses said the angel is going to see the blood and God says if he sees the blood he will pass over that house hence the Jews have a feast call pass over because when I see the Blood I will pass over you and innocent lamb is killed the blood is put upon the doorpost of the house now had they put diamonds and rubies it would have done no good had they put poetry and sentiment rather than sacrifice it would have done no good had they taken a live spotless lamb and tied a live lamb there at the doorpost it would have done no good when I see the Blood I will pass over you people talk about Jesus as the example no friend he is the savior salvation does not come by learning lessons from the life of Christ but by receiving life from the death of Christ when I see the Blood I will pass over you this Red River of blood is flowing through the Bible the Jews continued every Passover to make a sacrifice of a spotless lamb that river of blood begins to widen and you have all of the Levitical laws and all of the sacrifices there in the Book of Leviticus every smoking altar is telling us a story without shedding of blood is no remission of sin one day John the Baptist standing by Jordan baptizing people looked up and saw the very Son of God coming the Lord Jesus Christ John said behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world pointing to Jesus Christ who was the fulfillment of all of these types and shadows hebrews chapter 10 verse 1 tells us that all of these sacrifices in the Old Testament beginning with the coats of skin for Adam and Eve and going all the way through all of them were only a shadow now what is a shadow a shadow is an outline that has no detail and no color all of these were shadows pointing toward reality you see my body is casting a shadow upon this stage now it's not the shadow that really matters it's the body that counts it is the Lord - Jesus Christ all of these things were just getting people ready for Jesus to come I've told you before about the Russian psychologist whose name was Pavlov he did some experience some experiments based on a principle that he called conditioned response and what Pavlov did was this Pavlov puts some dogs in his kennels and he trained them to respond a certain way he would ring a bell and then feed the dogs the next day ring the bell and feed the dogs over and over and over the Bell the food the bell the food after a while all Pavlov had to do was to ring the bell and the dogs would begin to salivate and drool because they knew that food was coming now what were all these Old Testament sacrifices they were God's conditioned response what God was doing was conditioning his people for Calvary what he was showing them by the shed blood of these innocent animals is without the shedding of blood is no remission the wages of sin is death the soul that sinneth it must surely die sin means death sin means death sin means death it is a conditioned response in the Old Testament to one of these days the Lamb of God the Lord Jesus Christ who was the fulfillment of all of this came and John said behold the lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world and he died the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God that's what it is all about my friend that there is the substitutionary purpose of the gospel and so the Lord Jesus Christ hung his head and died there on the day when the Passover lambs were being slain on Passover Jesus died because he was the fulfillment bear on that same limestone ridge where those priests were putting to death those little innocent lambs the Lamb of God the Son of God was there oh they're on that same limestone ridge Mount Moriah where so long ago God told Abraham God will provide himself a lamb jesus said Abraham saw my day and was glad that's what Abraham saw Mount Moriah so long ago Jesus dying in agony in blood and when Jesus Christ died upon that cross he said it's done it's finished now I want to say to all you Levitical priests out there on that Mount Moriah now your your work is over you put away your knives go home we don't need any more lambs we don't need any more sacrifice VLAN has died and is paid in full now here's the second thing we're talking first of all about the substitutionary purpose of the Cross second thing I want you to see is the suffering Passion of the Cross the suffering Passion of the Cross our text says Christ also hath once suffered and once suffered once suffered Jesus suffered in the words of another tongue cannot tell throat cannot sing hand cannot paint the tragedy that was enacted on that hill called Calvary only the damned in hell can begin to know the sufferings of the Lord Jesus upon that cross sin brings suffering as night follows day I want you to think of the suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ upon that cross think first of all of the emotional sufferings of Jesus think of dark Gethsemane think of Jesus they're in agony in Gethsemane I'm going to give you some scriptures you don't have time to turn to them but I want you to write them down Luke 22 verses 40 and 41 and when he was at that place he said unto them pray ye that she enter not into temptation and he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast and kneeled and prayed this place where Jesus is praying is called Gethsemane the word Gethsemane literally means Olive Press and you're going to see that it it speaks symbolically of pressure because Jesus Christ here is going through extreme emotional pressure Jesus has been with the disciples on Mount Zion for what we call the Last Supper and now Jesus leaves Mount Zion and he goes across the city of Jerusalem and he goes down into a valley the valley of Kidron that separates Mountain Zion and the Temple Mount from the Mount of Olives as he crosses that brook Kedron scholars tell us that most likely it was flowing red with blood because it was there into which the extraneous blood of the sacrifices was drained when he crossed that crimson stream doubtless it it spoke to him about his own blood that was going to be poured out very soon he went up into a little secret place there where he prayed there beneath the old olive trees and he began to pray and I want you to see what he is praying he is praying father if it be possible let this cup pass from me he spoke of a cup it was not a literal cup it is a metaphor he had an experience that he had to partake of and it was called the cup now what was in that cup what was it that the Lord Jesus Christ was shrinking back from what was it that Jesus was asking the father to take from him listen the pollution of sin was in that cup for he God hath made him Jesus to be sin for us who knew no sin he is the sinless spotless stainless Lamb of God but he is going to be made sin all of the sin of the world is going to be distilled upon the Lord Jesus cries he has this cup to drink blasphemy settled in that cup rape and adultery and sexual perversion settled in that cup child abuse and wife beatings settled in that Cup Hitler's gas ovens settled in that cup the murder of innocent children by abortion settled in that cup drug abuse settled in that cup satanic worship and murder settled in that cup pride lust Envy and self-righteousness settled in that cup and Jesus would bear all of that think of your sin my sin alone that's in that cup compound that by the sin of all of the people in this city and then by all of the people in all of the cities then by that by all of the people in all the cities in all of the world and then compound that by all of the people who've ever lived and who ever will live all of that sin was in that cup the pollution of sin was in that cup that filthy sin Jesus would put to his sinless litters not only was the pollution of sin but the punishment of sin was in that cup the Bible says in Isaiah chapter 53 verse 10 it pleased the Lord to bruise him some translations to give it to crush him Isaiah chapter Romans chapter 8 verse 32 speaks of God the Father and it says he spared not his own son got the father he'll back nothing when Jesus Christ was to be our substitute he took the full force of the father's wrath listen to me precious friends the fires of God's wrath burned themselves out on the Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary no one ever suffered like the Lord Jesus he the Son of God who had been in the bosom of the Father for all eternity now is not only abandoned by the father but has become the object of the father's loathing and all of the sin of the world was distilled into that cup people say how could Jesus in that period of time suffer an eternity of hell the reason is this he being infinite suffered in a finite period of time what we being finite would suffering in an infinite period of time the eternity z' work impressed upon jesus the sins of the world were distilled upon jesus you cannot begin to imagine the emotional suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ no wonder he lay there prostrate on the ground with red blood and black dirt on his face saying father if there be some other way please let this cup pass from me and the silence from heaven said there is no other way and the dear Savior said then not my will but thine be done the Bible says in Luke 22 verse 44 him being in agony he prayed more earnestly the word agony speaks of a a contest in the Greek language the agon was a wrestling match Jesus is in agony he is wrestling what is he wrestling with not with God the Father he wants the will of God the Father who's he wrestling with not was Satan Satan had nothing in him who's he wrestling with with his own humanity friend don't get the idea that Jesus just strolled to the cross and said I'm God this though that doesn't bother me you will never no never no never never ever understand the suffering of the Lord Jesus Christ upon that cross Christ also hath once suffered for sin the just for the unjust he saw you he saw me he saw our need and he said no price is too great to pay there was the emotional suffering there was the physical suffering upon that cross John 19 verse 1 then Pilate therefore took Jesus and scourged him a scourge was a terrible thing a man's wrists are tied to a column two volunteers probably psychopaths who volunteered for the job demented people who took pleasure in causing pain began to scourge the Lord Jesus Christ to whip him one would start at the nape of the neck and work downward the other would start at the ankles and work up word they used rods and then they used something called a flagellum which are we call a cat of nine tails the sturdy handle with leather thongs and bits of bone and and glass and led in there that would tear away the flesh these were experienced soldiers these were artists they knew how to lay the veins bare they knew how to tear away the flesh without disemboweling the person it was not meant to put him to death but to beat him so near to death that he could never walk away no one ever walked away some crawled away most were dragged away and after the scourging then he's taken there to the dungeon where the soldiers abused him put a crown of thorns upon his head beat him with bamboo clubs blindfold and strike him with their fists jerk the beard from his face spit in his face and mock him he's already been given false trials six of them every one of them a a mockery of justice and then they laid him out along the way of Sorrows to Calvary and they nail him on the cross a crucifixion was meant to cause the person to flirt with death to extend death as long as they could they would put searing nails through the separated metacarpals trying to find the median nerve because if they could touch that nerve that would cause fiery pain to shoot up the body they would dislocate the arm so as to stretch them out and you imagine what it would be to have your shoulders dislocated then that individual is nailed to the cross and then also tied most of the time to the cross to keep the flesh from tearing and then the feet the knees are bent and the feet are nailed to a post and a protrusion so that you can push with your feet the idea is this the individual has his arms extended at 90 degrees when that cross is dropped into the hole their arms go up to 65 degrees the weight comes down upon the chest the victim cannot breathe he's suffocating so he must push with his legs in order to breathe when he does the pain comes up the legs in the and the the nails that are holding him to the cross cause excruciating pain again when he's relaxed the suffocation begins and the pain shoots through the median nerves there and this individual is there with nausea and pain and shock and loss of blood and all of these every nerve every nerve is a pathway for the feat of pain you've heard the word excruciating excruciating means out of the cross crus is cross excruciating out of the cross the Latin word screw Tatas is put into English which means out of the Cross Jesus is dying in agony and blood I've talked to you listen I've talked to you about the substitutionary purpose I've talked to you friend about the the fring passion now what about the settle provision of the cross look at the text again look at it Christ also hath once suffered once suffered not twice one time hallelujah it'll never happen again when he died upon that cross he said it is finished what that means is it is paid in full in Rome if a man were put in prison for crime they would take a certificate of debt and nail it to the prison door this is what he has done this is his crime this is the penalty after he pays society his debt they take that writing that is against him and they bring it to the judge the judge says has he done his time as he paid his price yes then the judge writes across that thing tetelesti paid in full finished and gives it to the man and the man if he's ever arrested again for the crime says no wait a minute wait a minute you can't condemn me that crime has been paid for now what Jesus said on the cross when he hung his head and died is Teta let's die it is finished it is paid in full and friend when the devil comes to taunt you since Jesus died for you you can say see that that is my bill of deliverance my price has been paid he hath once suffered for sin that just for the unjust that he might bring us to God now that brings me to the final point and that is the saving power of the cross look at it again Christ also hath once suffered for sin the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God bring us to God the Greek word therefore bring is pro se go and what it means is to take someone and bring them to another person it was often used when a person would bring a man a woman into the throne room I've had a privilege not that I deserve it but to be in the Oval Office well I say this much if you get invited to the Oval Office I'll tell you what will happen you will not just go walk in someone will bring you in someone will meet you and take you and bring you in you don't just walk in and I tell you when you come into Heaven's throne room there's one who will take you by the hand and bring you in his name is Jesus that he might bring us that he might bring us to God and by the blood of his cross he reconciled God and man a man imagine himself dying and warning into heaven but he's watching others as they're trying to get into heaven one man knocks on heaven's door the voice within said who is it that seeks entrance said to heaven and what is the password a man said I'm a moral man what is the password he said honesty the voice within said depart from me ye that work iniquity I never knew you another not who is it that seeks interested to heaven and what is the password he said I am a humanitarian what is the password charity love for the poor the voice within said depart from me ye that work iniquity I never knew you another not who is it that seeks interests into heaven and what is the password I am a religious man what is the password church attendance offerings baptism ritual the voice were then said depart from me you that work iniquity I never knew you at last one came and knocked the voice were then said who is it that seeks entrance into heaven and what is the password the man said in my hand no price I bring simply to like cross I claim and the voice within said open wide the gates and let him in for of such is the kingdom of heaven Christ also hath once suffered for sin the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God that's what it's all about bow your heads in prayer now Jesus this morning wants to take you by the hand and bring you to God and the way he will do that is through the sacrifice of Calvary all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned every one to his own way and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all would you like to be saved would you I mean today now right now forever and ever and ever would you like to become a child of God have been born in heaven bound then I invite you to pray this way Lord Jesus you are the just and I am the unjust but Lord you suffered bled and died to bring me to God I opened my heart I receive you now by faith as my Lord and Savior save me today Lord Jesus I want to be your child I want to be in the family of God I want you to live in my life and let me live my life through you and for you and then I want to be received into heaven save me Jesus pray that friends saved me Lord Jesus did you ask him and pray this way thank you for doing it begin now to make me the person you want me to be in your name I pray amen we pray God has blessed you as you've watched this message if you'd like additional copies or information on other resources write us at love worth finding p.o box 38 800 memphis tennessee 38134 at lwf dot o-r-g in the US you can place Visa or MasterCard orders by calling 1-800 two seven four five six eight three Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Central tea thank you and may God richly bless you

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Length: 43min 50sec (2630 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 30 2016