RBDERRICK
Supporter
First let's dismiss what is not the Jesus' finished work on the cross:
1 Peter{1:3} Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Since only by His resurrection Jesus Christ saves and justifies them that believe, His work of saving and justifying the ungodly cannot be only by His death at the cross.
Rom 10:9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
The faith that saves by Jesus Christ, is not beleiving in His death on a cross by the hands of men, but believing in His resurrection from the dead by the power of God.
Since it's not the salvation and justification of believers that Jesus accomplishes at the cross, then what is the work accomplished by Jesus Christ on the cross?
1Pe 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Luk 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Jesus' work finished on the cross, was to fulfill all the prophecies of the promised Christ suffering unto death, which included the meek and righteous way He suffered on a cross.
Isa 53:7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
1 Pe 2:22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
Act 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
The determined will of God was not only for the Son to submit to wicked hands, but especially to do so meekly as a lamb to the slaughter, not opening His mouth in defence, nor for mercy, nor reviling them that reviled Him.
The work of the Son on the cross was obeying the Father in all things perfectly in life and in death, without any sin of disobedience.
Isaiah{50:5} The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. {50:6} I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Psa 22:16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
That perfect work of Jesus' obedience to the Father at the cross, thus included suffering the sinful stripes and smitings and piercings of sinful men, without a word of protest nor pity nor wrath.
1 Peter{1:3} Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Since only by His resurrection Jesus Christ saves and justifies them that believe, His work of saving and justifying the ungodly cannot be only by His death at the cross.
Rom 10:9That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
The faith that saves by Jesus Christ, is not beleiving in His death on a cross by the hands of men, but believing in His resurrection from the dead by the power of God.
Since it's not the salvation and justification of believers that Jesus accomplishes at the cross, then what is the work accomplished by Jesus Christ on the cross?
1Pe 1:10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
Luk 24:25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
Jesus' work finished on the cross, was to fulfill all the prophecies of the promised Christ suffering unto death, which included the meek and righteous way He suffered on a cross.
Isa 53:7He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Isa 53:3He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
1 Pe 2:22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
Act 2:23Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
The determined will of God was not only for the Son to submit to wicked hands, but especially to do so meekly as a lamb to the slaughter, not opening His mouth in defence, nor for mercy, nor reviling them that reviled Him.
The work of the Son on the cross was obeying the Father in all things perfectly in life and in death, without any sin of disobedience.
Isaiah{50:5} The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. {50:6} I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.
Psa 22:16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
That perfect work of Jesus' obedience to the Father at the cross, thus included suffering the sinful stripes and smitings and piercings of sinful men, without a word of protest nor pity nor wrath.