- 00:00
- not only to fulfill it, so Jesus is under the law, he stands up, he meets the law, he looks the law in the eye, the law says do this, and Jesus says yes, and he's obedient.
- 00:09
- But he's not here just to fulfill the law, but also to bear its curse.
- 00:15
- So by his own righteousness, he stands up under the law, but instead, he allows himself to be crushed by the law's power.
- 00:25
- Well, how can the law crush a righteous man? We talked about it this morning in Proverbs, but I'm just gonna read from Galatians 3 .13.
- 00:32
- In Galatians 3 .13, it says, Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.
- 00:39
- As it is written, curse is everyone who is hanged on a tree. The law doesn't crush
- 00:45
- Jesus as righteous, but it crushes Jesus as curse. You getting that?
- 00:51
- The law crushes Jesus. God's wrath in response to the law crushes
- 00:59
- Jesus as curse in our place on the cross. Jesus paid the price.
- 01:09
- This is not a price that he pays to Satan. It's not a price he pays to the church or whatever.
- 01:15
- That's weird. It's not a price that he pays to some higher power. It's the price he pays to God, because the law of God demands this for sinners.
- 01:27
- Death. You sin, I've sinned. So what does the law bring? Death. And as Christ hangs suspended between heaven and earth,
- 01:37
- God unleashes the fury of his wrath upon the son in our place. The wrath of God is satisfied in the work of Christ by his righteous living and then by his vicarious death, his substitutionary death, his death in our place, him becoming a curse in our place.
- 01:54
- This is what the Bible calls propitiation. Wrath, satisfying, sacrifice.
