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The following post is an excerpt of this year’s 2016 Youth Camp teaching of Manifold Grace by Gene Hawkins I am transcribing from six hours of CD’s.
"Php 2:8 Being found in fashion as a man, He humbled himself, He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, and that little word “Even” means that the death of the cross has been separated from all other deaths. There is no other death in history that can equal, or that can be in the same category with the death of the cross of Christ. Why? Jesus didn’t die as a good man, He didn’t die as a martyr, Jesus died as the worst sinner that this world has ever known, or ever will know. The reason being, that He represents the sin of every human being that has ever walked this earth, or ever will walk this earth. Christ represented all of them, He died as the worst convict, and criminal, and despicable sinner that ever there was.
Only God gave Him the grace to do that. You and I will never understand what that is. You and I will never understand what Jesus experienced on the cross of Christ. When God poured out all of His wrath against sin, look at some despicable act that we see today, look down in your own heart and tell yourself honestly what you would like to do to the person that was guilty. Multiply that by all of the sins of the world, and you find out what God did when He poured out all of His wrath on Jesus, on Jesus. I say again the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is not simply the grace that He showed to us, we’re talking about the grace that it took for Him in order to accomplish all of the purpose of God.
And now let us take it one step further as we close this session. I don’t know what battle you may be facing in your life, I don’t know what burden or difficulty that you may be facing in your own experience, but I can tell you this, the same grace that God put in Jesus in order to accomplish His purpose, God will put that same grace in me to endure any difficultly that I may have to go through in my life today. Grace is the key for that kind of a burden."
We are blessed in Christ Jesus.
The following post is an excerpt of this year’s 2016 Youth Camp teaching of Manifold Grace by Gene Hawkins I am transcribing from six hours of CD’s.
"Php 2:8 Being found in fashion as a man, He humbled himself, He became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, and that little word “Even” means that the death of the cross has been separated from all other deaths. There is no other death in history that can equal, or that can be in the same category with the death of the cross of Christ. Why? Jesus didn’t die as a good man, He didn’t die as a martyr, Jesus died as the worst sinner that this world has ever known, or ever will know. The reason being, that He represents the sin of every human being that has ever walked this earth, or ever will walk this earth. Christ represented all of them, He died as the worst convict, and criminal, and despicable sinner that ever there was.
Only God gave Him the grace to do that. You and I will never understand what that is. You and I will never understand what Jesus experienced on the cross of Christ. When God poured out all of His wrath against sin, look at some despicable act that we see today, look down in your own heart and tell yourself honestly what you would like to do to the person that was guilty. Multiply that by all of the sins of the world, and you find out what God did when He poured out all of His wrath on Jesus, on Jesus. I say again the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is not simply the grace that He showed to us, we’re talking about the grace that it took for Him in order to accomplish all of the purpose of God.
And now let us take it one step further as we close this session. I don’t know what battle you may be facing in your life, I don’t know what burden or difficulty that you may be facing in your own experience, but I can tell you this, the same grace that God put in Jesus in order to accomplish His purpose, God will put that same grace in me to endure any difficultly that I may have to go through in my life today. Grace is the key for that kind of a burden."
We are blessed in Christ Jesus.