HOW CAN ONE MAN PAY FOR ANOTHER’S SINS? (3 OF 6)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Isaiah 53:7-8
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How Can One Man Pay for Another’s Sins? (3 of 6)
Series: In the Shadow of the Cross: Isaiah's Portrait of Jesus
Scott Maze
Isaiah 53:7-8
This series is a tool to help shape your heart in preparation for Easter. Here are three brief reasons why you should rehearse the narrative of our Lord's grief carefully:
1) Seeing Jesus' Sorrow Lightens My Pain
One cannot think long about Jesus' agony without tears. I have personally have had to pause in reading about Jesus' week of trials and pain because of excessive emotion. When you stop to consider what Jesus went through, your heart breaks for His grief dwarfs our grief. While I would not want to minimize your grief even for a moment, for there is substantial pain and hurt in our world today. Yet, His agony makes our pain into light affliction. My pain can never been healed other than by His nailed-pierced hands.
2) Seeing Jesus' Sorrow Stimulates My Passion
Not only does our hearts break at the sight of Jesus' pain, but the cross of Jesus stimulates a passion for Christ inside me. Though you are nearly crushed by the sight of Jesus, there's within you a strong, resolute and fervent passion for Him that explodes forward. Nothing is too hard for us to attempt and nothing is too difficult to endure for the One who sacrificed Himself for us. And while we are grieved to consider that our best will be so little in comparison to what He did, we are resolved in this: He deserves nothing less than our best.
3) Seeing Jesus' Sorrow Destroys My Carelessness
His shame makes my indifference unthinkable. When I see His sufferings, my careless heart is disturbed and disrupted. I am weaned from my love of sin by hearing about Jesus' pain on my behalf.
We are just four Sundays away from Easter - one of biggest celebrations in Christianity. Easter is the time when non-Christians will more easily come to church and we want to be prepared. We want to see people come to Christ this Easter. I want to see ...
Series: In the Shadow of the Cross: Isaiah's Portrait of Jesus
Scott Maze
Isaiah 53:7-8
This series is a tool to help shape your heart in preparation for Easter. Here are three brief reasons why you should rehearse the narrative of our Lord's grief carefully:
1) Seeing Jesus' Sorrow Lightens My Pain
One cannot think long about Jesus' agony without tears. I have personally have had to pause in reading about Jesus' week of trials and pain because of excessive emotion. When you stop to consider what Jesus went through, your heart breaks for His grief dwarfs our grief. While I would not want to minimize your grief even for a moment, for there is substantial pain and hurt in our world today. Yet, His agony makes our pain into light affliction. My pain can never been healed other than by His nailed-pierced hands.
2) Seeing Jesus' Sorrow Stimulates My Passion
Not only does our hearts break at the sight of Jesus' pain, but the cross of Jesus stimulates a passion for Christ inside me. Though you are nearly crushed by the sight of Jesus, there's within you a strong, resolute and fervent passion for Him that explodes forward. Nothing is too hard for us to attempt and nothing is too difficult to endure for the One who sacrificed Himself for us. And while we are grieved to consider that our best will be so little in comparison to what He did, we are resolved in this: He deserves nothing less than our best.
3) Seeing Jesus' Sorrow Destroys My Carelessness
His shame makes my indifference unthinkable. When I see His sufferings, my careless heart is disturbed and disrupted. I am weaned from my love of sin by hearing about Jesus' pain on my behalf.
We are just four Sundays away from Easter - one of biggest celebrations in Christianity. Easter is the time when non-Christians will more easily come to church and we want to be prepared. We want to see people come to Christ this Easter. I want to see ...
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