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Deuteronomy 21:23 - his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Galatians 3:13 - Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”

When most people speak today of the idea of curse, what do we think of?

Is everyone that fails to keep God’s law cursed? Are we justified by the law?

Jews executed by stoning, why is this significant?

“Just as the scapegoat was driven outside the camp, outside of the Holy City where the presence of God was concentrated, so Jesus was sent into the outer darkness.” On the cross, was Jesus forsaken by the Father and sent into the outer darkness, away from the merciful presence of God?

“The sign of the new covenant was circumcision.” “The rite had two meanings, a positive and negative.” What are the meanings?

Many have died on a cross, but did anyone else receive the full measure of the curse of God?

“It is finished.” What was over, His life, the pain of the nails?

What does it mean to us that the curse is over?




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Matthew 27:46 - And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

“Even in His agony Jesus was still praying.” When life strikes Jesus, in His humanity, the hardest what comes out of Him is what is in Him. It is the Word of God.

When someone suffers, do you find out what is on the inside of them? What can Christians learn from this?

Is Jesus’ cry, a cry of unbelief?

Do Christians need to feel the weight of Jesus’s suffering?

“Jesus did not just feel forsaken He was forsaken.” Jesus did not cry out “My God, My God, why do I feel forsaken by You?” Jesus was forsaken. As a sinner, is that my only hope to be saved?

Is it a serious sin to diminish the sufferings of Christ in any way?

“God the Father could not bear to look at the sin or His Son.” Does God hide His face from the one He forsakes?

“God did not let Jesus rot in the grave.” Matthew Henry writes: “Christ, by dying, has taken out the sting of death. He has made atonement for sin; he has obtained remission of it. Death may hiss therefore, but it cannot hurt.”

“God will forsake sinners, but He will not forsake you if you will come and meet Jesus Christ at the cross.

How does someone meet Jesus Christ at the cross?




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John 19:28 - After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.”

Jesus was dying, He was hot and thirsty. Are food and water luxuries?

Food and water are necessities, not luxuries; if we don’t eat or drink, we will die.

And so it is in the spiritual realm: Is Jesus a luxury? Jesus Christ is not some luxury; He is a necessity. Without Him, our spirits will die.

“Spiritually speaking, if God is not at the center of our souls, then we do not have that which can ultimately meet our thirst and quench it. The real danger of that thirst is eternal death in hell.”



Luke 16:19-31 - The Rich Man and Lazarus – Tell us how the rich man’s heart is revealed. “The water he seeks will not fill his soul and not satisfy him.”

John 4:13-14 - Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

What is the secret of satisfaction?

“In the whole passion account we never once hear Jesus complaining about any of the physical torture and agony into which He was placed.” When Jesus says, “I am thirsty”, do you think He means physical thirst?

John 7:37-38 – On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

Is water an image of spiritual abundance?

Exodus 17:5-6 - And the Lord said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.

1 Corinthians 10:4 - and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.

Is it a stretch to say this was a glorious illustration of our salvation? First Corinthians 10:11 says, “All these things happened to them as examples.”

Isaiah 53:4 says, “Yet we esteemed Him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.” Did that rock picture the Lord Jesus Christ, the Rock of Ages, stricken for us?

Jesus, the Rock of Ages, was smitten for us. And because Jesus was smitten for us, out of His side came forth water.

He was stricken and smitten, that we might be refreshed.




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Hebrews 2:14-15 - Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, 15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

“Have you ever been filled with a sense of amazement and wonder at the drama of the cross? - the drama, the conflict, the fight?”



“As we look at the cross, why do we see all this feeling, why all this hatred? There is only one explanation. It is the devil that is fighting. It is the devil in these men and women.”

“The world was very pleased with itself, as it looked upon Him there dying upon the cross. That is why they laugh. That is why they are joking. At last they had got Him, they had nailed Him, they had killed Him. They thought He was finished. - Was He?”

Colossians 2:13-15 - And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This He set aside, nailing it to the cross. 15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in Him.

“The devil has no power of his own.” What does he mean by this?

“The moment we are out of touch with God, we are the devil’s helpless tools. And that is the position of the entire human race.”

“Christ defeated our ultimate enemy, the devil, the one who originally brought man and the universe down.” Was it the devil that brought us down or Adam’s sin?

1 John 3:8-9 - Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.

To bring us to glory and to destroy the works of the devil. That is the object of our Lord's coming, correct?

Also, sanctification?

I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God. You see that you present your bodies a living sacrifice.

On the cross, Jesus ruined Satan’s kingdom, and now Satan has no power or authority over us.

So, Jesus destroyed the destroyer.




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Matthew 27:46 - And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”



Psalm 22:1 - My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning?



Hebrews 5:7-8 - In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to Him who was able to save him from death, and He was heard because of his reverence. 8 Although he was a Son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.



1. In prophecy the supplications here intended are called his “roaring:”



Psalms 22:1-3, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from דִּבְרֵי שַׁאֲתִי ,” “the words of my roaring?” “Rugitus,” the proper cry of a lion, is κραυγὴ ἰσχυρά , “clamor validus,” “a strong and vehement outcry.” And it is used to express such a vehemency in supplications as cannot be compressed or confined. For it is not merely the outward noise, but the inward earnest intension and engagement of heart and soul, with the greatness and depth of the occasion of them, that is principally intended.



2. We may consider the same matter as related in story by the evangelists. The prayers intended are those which he offered to God during his passion, both in the garden and on the cross. The first are declared Luke 22:44, “And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was as drops of blood falling on the earth.” The inward frame is here declared, which our apostle shadows out by the external expressions and signs of it, in “strong cries and tears.” ᾿Εν ἀγωνίᾳ γενόμενος , “constitutus in agonia.”



Psalms 22:15, “I am poured out like water;” that is, ‘my blood is so, by an emanation from all parts of my body, descending to the ground.’



In what sense were His prayers heard if He was praying that He be saved from death?



His outward sufferings were indeed grievous; but yet, considered merely as such, they were, as to mere sense of pain, beneath what sundry of His martyrs have been called to undergo for his name’s sake. And yet we know that many, yea, through the power of his grace in them, the most of them who have so suffered for him in all ages, have cheerfully, joyfully, and without the least consternation of spirit, undergone the exquisite tortures whereby they have given up themselves unto death for Him. And shall we imagine that the Son of God, who had advantages for his supportment and consolation infinitely above what they had any interest in, should be given up to this dreadful, trembling conflict, wherein His whole nature was almost dissolved, out of a mere apprehension of those corporeal sufferings which were coming on him? Was it the forethought of them only, and that as such, which dispelled the present sense of divine love and satisfaction from the indissoluble union of his person, that they should not influence his mind with refreshments and consolation? God forbid we should have such mean thoughts of what he was, of what he did, of what he suffered. There were other causes of these things, as we shall see immediately.





That he learned obedience by what he suffered;





Was Jesus 'delivered from his fear' or 'delivered because he had fear' of God?


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Luke 23:34 - And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.



Was the whole point of the incarnation forgiveness? It was the very thing Jesus was dying for. It was what He was praying for. And it is what He exemplified in His death. Again, He gave us an example we are solemnly charged to follow.



Why did He pray, “Father, forgive them,” when in the past He had simply forgiven sinners Himself (cf. Luke 7:48)? Hadn’t He already shown that “the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins” (Matthew 9:6)?



Whom Christ was praying for? Was it the Jews who had conspired to sentence Him to death? The Roman soldiers who actually nailed Him to the cross, then gambled for His clothing? The mocking crowd who taunted Him? The answer must be all of the above, and more.



Extended Forgiveness - In a sense, is every pardoned sinner who ever lived an answer to Christ’s prayer? Since our guilt put Him on the cross in the first place, we bear responsibility for His death just as surely as those who actually drove the nails through His hands and feet. Is the forgiveness He extended on the cross to those who put Him to death the same forgiveness He extends to sinners today?



We who have experienced such forgiveness have a solemn duty to extend a similar mercy to others as well (Ephesians 4:32).



Can we look at this scene on the cross and understand the depth of His passion, then justify our own unwillingness to forgive our neighbor?



Should we show mercy even as we have received mercy (cf. Matthew 18:21–35)?



Is forgiving enemies, and to beg forgiveness for them, the true character of the Christian spirit?



May the Lord grant us grace to follow in His steps of mercy!




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