Our sin cannot outweigh the cross | The Whole Counsel

His first argument here is that there's such virtue in the blood of Christ because Jesus did actually

Suffer the legal and full curse of the offended and the broken law And he does this in his body in a real physical death where he he actually suffers

He gives a quote Where he says God was not angry with Christ for taking his office upon him

But for our sins his anger was directed toward our sin not because he took the office God's wrath burned against him

God looked on him as if he were the guilty person God looked upon him as the object of his vindictive justice and Jesus was pursued by divine vengeance for our sins

The second argument he gives for why there is such a virtue to cleanse our sins in the death of Christ Is that Jesus suffered as the eternal

Son of God and not just as the sinless man? And he gives a couple of verses here 1st

Corinthians 2 8 they crucified the Lord of glory Acts 3 15 they killed the

Prince of life This one really answers the objection that comes to our minds when we look at the magnitude of our sins

So we look at the frequency perhaps of a heinous sin We you know the repetitive nature in our life and we wonder have

I sinned against God one too many times you know has the pile grown so high and so it's good to contrast that the

Size of our sin, which is terrible with the infinite Dignity and magnitude of the sin -bearer.

He is the Prince of life He is the Lord of glory and there is no reason to fear that our sin is is too great for that cross

I do think it's important to make some distinctions here We have the

God -man with two natures and if we're not careful we can come up with some really bad ideas We understand it and Stoddard mentions this that Christ suffered in his humanity the deity cannot suffer pain

Christ died in his humanity the deity cannot die God is eternal and Yet we can say that Jesus the

God -man suffered and died because there is one person with two natures and he endured all of that and his deity lent such

Dignity to his humanity that this this sacrifice becomes of infinite value.

Mm -hmm. Yeah. Yeah, that's really Important to keep one person two natures not two persons with a mingled nature yeah, and if you you can go too far one way and think that the deity of Christ died somehow which is is

Problematic, but you could also go too far the other way and think because The deity cannot be touched with that we could say that the humanity somehow

Was lessened and the sacrifice was lessened and it does not bear the dignity that it actually does

He mentions also that the suffering was of a perfectly holy sacrifice and we see that foreshadowed in the

Old Testament the spotless lamb We see that clearly described in the New Testament John 14

At the end of that chapter when he's with his disciples the night of his crucifixion He tells them that they need to get up and leave the room.

They're gonna go out to Gethsemane and He says to them it's time for us to get up and leave because the evil one has no nothing in me

I'm not going to go and be taken and crucified because of anything wrong in me But because there's nothing wrong in me, you know

He can be the sacrifice and I think that that applies in a second way to the objections of the heart

Not just the bigness of my sin, but the the shamefulness this stain The dirtiness of every sin and when we see them as God sees them, you know as we begin to see them more clearly

Then there might be that feeling that nothing nothing could ever make me right with God now

And so we must contrast the horrible stain of every sin with the infinitely

Beautiful holiness of the sacrifice and find all of our confidence there

Yeah, I think this is probably to me one of the sweetest points and one of the most astounding to think about too you know that Christ wholly not just in lack of original sin, but actual sin that he does not

Commit any deeds that are sinful but thoughts and attitudes and no sin not only of commission but of omission