Transcript Diapositiva 1 - Your Life

Lesson 3 for
January 21, 2012
What was the reason for Jesus’ death,
God’s love or God’s wrath?
“But God demonstrates his
own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us”
(Romans, 5: 8 NIV)
“The wrath of God is being
revealed from heaven
against all the godlessness
and wickedness of people,
who suppress the truth by
their wickedness”
(Romano, 1: 18 NIV)
The reason for the sacrifice of Jesus was
God’s love for us. God’s wrath is because
of sin and not because of sinners.
Love, justice and compassion are the
source for redemption. When we
understand how horrible is sin before
God’s eyes, we understand better His
love which He showed by becoming sin
for us.
“And I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your seed and her Seed; he shall bruise
your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Genesis, 3: 15)
“These observations clearly show that in this
pronouncement is compressed the record of the
great controversy between Christ and Satan, a
battle that began in heaven (Rev. 12:7–9), was
continued on earth, where Christ again defeated
him (Heb. 2:14), and will terminate finally with
Satan’s destruction at the end of the millennium
(Rev. 20:10). Christ did not emerge from this
battle unscathed. The nail marks in His hands and
feet and the scar in His side will be eternal
reminders of the fierce strife in which the
serpent bruised the woman’s seed (John 20:25;
Zech. 13:6; EW 53)
“And the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly”
(Romans, 16: 20)
In this act, we can see how the Father
gives His Son and how the Son willingly
gives His life.
“The offering of Isaac was designed
by God to prefigure the sacrifice of
His Son. Isaac was a figure of the Son
of God, who was offered a sacrifice
for the sins of the world. God desired
to impress upon Abraham the gospel
of salvation of men.... He was made
to understand in his own experience
how great was the self-denial of the
infinite God in giving His Son to
rescue man from ruin”
E.G.W. (That I may know Him, January 14)
Who has believed our report? And to whom
has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For He shall grow up before Him as a
tender plant, and as a root out of dry
ground. He has no form or comeliness; and
when we see Him, there is no beauty that
we should desire Him.
He is despised and rejected by men,
a Man of sorrows and acquainted with
grief. And we hid, as it were, our
faces from Him; He was despised,
and we did not esteem Him.
Surely He has borne our griefs and
carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed
Him stricken, smitten by God, and
afflicted.
But He was wounded for our
transgressions, He was bruised for our
iniquities; the chastisement for our peace
was upon Him, and by His stripes we are
healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we
have turned, every one, to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity
of us all.
He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
yet He opened not His mouth; He was
led as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a
sheep before its shearers is silent, so
He opened not His mouth.
He was taken from prison and from
judgment, and who will declare His
generation? For He was cut off from the
land of the living; for the transgressions
of My people He was stricken.
And they made His grave with the
wicked; but with the rich at His death,
because He had done no violence, nor
was any deceit in His mouth.
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He
has put Him to grief. When You make His
soul an offering for sin, He shall see His
seed, He shall prolong His days, and the
pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His
hand.
He shall see the labor of His soul, and be
satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous
Servant shall justify many, for He shall
bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide Him a portion with
the great, and He shall divide the spoil
with the strong, because He poured out
His soul unto death, and He was
numbered with the transgressors, and He
bore the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.
“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son
of Man will be betrayed to the chief priests and to
the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death,
and deliver Him to the Gentiles to mock and to
scourge and to crucify. And the third day He will
rise again” (Matthew, 20: 18-19)
The ministry of Jesus was centered on the cross.
During His ministry, He tried to make His disciples
aware of His death many times (Matthew, 17: 2223; Mark, 9: 31; 10: 33-34; Luke, 9: 44; 18: 32-33;
John, 3: 14; 12: 32-33)
The last reminder of His ministry He
left was the Lord’s Supper, where we
commemorate His death.
“For as often as you eat this
bread and drink this cup, you
proclaim the Lord’s death till
He comes” (1 Corinthians, 11: 26)
Have you ever thought about
what Jesus risked by loading
our sins?
“And now the Lord of Glory was dying, a ransom for the race… Upon Christ as
our substitute and surety was laid the iniquity of us all. He was counted a
transgressor, that He might redeem us from the condemnation of the law… The
Saviour could not see through the portals of the tomb… He feared that sin was
so offensive to God that Their separation was to be eternal… It was the sense of
sin, bringing the Father’s wrath upon Him as man’s substitute, that made the
cup He drank so bitter, and broke the heart of the Son of God”
(EGW, The Desire of Ages, pp. 752, 753)
“The value of a soul, who can estimate? Would you know its worth, go to Gethsemane, and there watch
with Christ through those hours of anguish, when He sweat as it were great drops of blood. Look upon
the Saviour uplifted on the cross. Hear that despairing cry, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken
Me?” Mark 15:34. Look upon the wounded head, the pierced side, the marred feet. Remember that
Christ risked all. For our redemption, heaven itself was imperiled. At the foot of the cross, remembering
that for one sinner Christ would have laid down His life, you may estimate the value of a soul”
E.G.W. (Christ’s Object Lessons, cp. 15, pg. 196)