Sunday, March 14, 2010

At The site of the Cross , Firstly :- Intercessor crucified Redeemer YouTube - Thank you for the cross Lord...by Hillsong

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                         Introduction     

John Calvin (9b* J . Calvin " The Institutes of Christian Religion , Trans., J. Allen. pub., Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian church in the U.S Vol I,II,XVI,1 ) commented on these events by saying " These events leads us to the quit contemplation more than to use a rhetoric words " he refused the defamation with Christ's pains on the cross.
        Refer to H.E Hopkins ( 15*H.E. Hopkins ., " The Mystery of suffering " 1959 ) the pains of Christ were not resulted by the pains of His body only , in spite of it was very hard , because they have treated him fiercely ,but the real reason of His pains was The rejection of the Jews to him . So in the site of the cross we have many biblical doctrine subjects, He revealed himself as Intercessor , He was a crucified redeemer and priestly King who suffers to qualify the Gentile , paving the way for them to enter the Grace covenant as He is the human sacrifice to redeem them , but at the same time He is the second person of the Holy Trinity who raised again from death as a live person again. 
                    Firstly :- The Intercessor Crucified Redeemer
       The Father turned His face away ( 16*C.W. Lowry , " The Trinity and Christian Devotion " ,1946 ) So Christ said on the cross " Eli Eli lama sabachthani " The Christ called his Father - in the past -  using a private titles but he was playing the part of a human sacrifice instead of all the mankind then He played their part with humility asking His Father using His name of glory , and His Father blocked his face because He hates the evil of the man and refused it ,on the cross Christ was carrying  all the sins of the people who have trust in him, He preferred to use the title of God which was used by the people who believe in his mercy , The same title was used by the psalmist ( psalm 22:1 )
       when He asked the Father to forgive the sins of the people who crucified him He was playing the part of the Intercessor between God and the4 people on the cross ( 17*G. Stevenson , " Treatise on the offices of Christ " 1845 Remark :-I am not agree with the writer that the soldiers were innocent because they were ordered by their leaders , and that they were ignorant Gentiles who have not the knowledge about the Messiah , and that the Jews were obeying their religious leaders as well but I agree with him in the rest of his thoughts ) He was the legal Intercessor between God and all the mankind.
       On the cross , Christ was playing the Intercessor's part depending on the value of His innocent blood and His breaking body for the sake of all who believe him .
       Refer to Marshall ( 18*J.H.Marshall " art., Commentary on Luke " p 923 , 924 ., The New Bible Commentary Revised , 1977 " ) who said that the cross proclaimed Christ as a redeemer and Messiah , His pains were the price of His people's sins , these pains has completed the process of the redemption due to the words of G. E. Graham ( 19*G.E. Graham Swift " art., Commentary on Mark " p 884 , 885 The new Bible Commentary Revised ).
       Our Lord Jesus Christ agreed to obey using his full freedom , to be on cross, when He was feeling the pains of the sin which blocked the face of the Father away of him , we came to the secr5et of the redemption ,so, his call to God reflected his full conscious of pain , the pain which was a legal punishment in return of the mankind's sin , He carry it alone to free his sons and daughters from that moment till his second coming , to use his Intercession , and to find help and care Hebrew 13 : 5 .
     The pains of Christ was in fact the most surprising sort of pains that has ever been among all the mankind . V. Taylor has said " he was twisted and reduced with pains to ensure the contradiction between the reaction of God's love inside the man's heart ( 20*V. Taylor ., " Jesus and His Sacrifice ".1943.), it was clear in that situation  the integrated  work of the Trinity to complete the process of the redemption , because the Trinity united together to complete that work ( 21*R.E.Nixon ., " art., Commentary on Matthew " p 864-865 , The New Bible Commentary Revised ).
       It is important to remember that no one of the Evangelists who wrote the four Gospels used the Greek word which means the natural death ,They used another word to reveal that the death of the4 Christ was unique , because He has at that moment the authority of life and death , He posses the authority to die and the authority to revive again , before the activation of the decay elements ( 23*In our creed of faith Ch IIV,14 " that Jesus Christ has accepted this possession [Intercession] with His free will, and accepted to do its orders, so He was born under the legal law of the Nomos  and complemented  it , carry on the justice commandments , accepted the pains in His body, crucified, died , buried ,became under the authority of death , but His body did not decay  )He was not decayed as all the dead ,but He sent His spirit to the hands of His Father after completing His task, that was why Pilate exclaimed when they told him that Christ was dead ( Mark 15 : 44 , John 10 : 17 ) Also the priests who observed that accepted the faith later ( Acts 6 : 7 ).
          When the soldier stabbed Him with a spear in His side , the water and the blood came down , although every element of these has a definite meaning ,but it was sufficient proof to reveal His death , so, John recorded it to defend against the attacks of " The Docetists " who proclaimed that He was playing the part of a dead person ( as if His death was not true ) refer to ( 24*Donald Guthrie ., " art., Commentary on John " p 964-965 ., The New Bible Commentary Revised ) .
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