| Today, we look back at the cross of Christ. What was the Lord Jesus doing there? Was He judging the repentant thief? No, He said to him, “To day shalt thou be with Me in paradise” (Luke 23:43). Peter then tells us what He was doing on that cross. “Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24). He has taken our sins and borne our burdens. The work of redemption is perfectly finished, nothing can be added to it: and, because the work was done, He sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. He has gone back into heaven because He has finished the work. He died for our sins, and “was raised again for our justification” (Romans 4:25). His resurrection is the proof that God has accepted the work and that we too, have been “accepted in the Beloved” (Ephesians 1:6). |
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