What did Christ give up?

[n2thelight]

Just a question Ive been asking myself for awhile now.I know why He died for us,please don't think Im diminishing that in any form shape or fashion.

My question is what did He give up,I ask because I think it's more than we could understand,so Im not looking for nor will I engage in any debates on this,just would like a few thoughts.

I say it was more to it than Him dying for us,because when He did,He knew He would live again,that's why I feel it was much much deeper than that,and would just like to hear other's thought's on it.....

God gave His only begotten Son,that I know,but God knew that He would get Him back,that's why I ask the question.....

Thanks in advance for all responses.....

 

[kimberlie]

My question is what did He give up....?

Hey, n2thelight -

What did Jesus give up? What did He sacrifice and give up if He and God knew that He would rise from the dead?

I found a commentary on that by a man named Glenn Miller. In his commentary on sacrifice, Miller says that a sacrifice is more about turning something over to God and not about the death per se.

Here is his commentary, entitled "If Jesus didn't stay dead, then how was it a REAL sacrifice?" Good question

It is quite lengthy and a little tedious, but an excellent read.

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As far as what I think, personally? The book of Philippians says that Jesus was in the form of God and yet humbled himself to even death on a cross. That's more "giving up" than I can fathom.

Death was a punishment for sin. The Bible say that the "wages of sin is death". Jesus did not deserve to to die. He had to endure something that was a punishment reserved for the wicked.

In the Garden of Gethsemane, he grieved to the point of almost DYING over what was about to take place.

He was going to be acutely and cognizantly aware of every single sin committed by every single human being that has ever lived or will live.

His body suffered pain like no other person. I don't see how Jesus knowing that He would be resurrected would diminish the experience of pain and make what He did less of a sacrifice and as the Bible says, BECOMING sin. So says 2 Corinthians 5:21. "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God."

Jesus didn't just take away our sins. Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, BECAME sin for us and died a cruel death so that his blood could save those of us who actually deserve the punishment.

Sacrifice isn't necessarily a permanent death or permanent loss. It's a surrendering over to God everything that you are and becoming what He wants you to be no matter what it takes.

The Bible always commands us to be a living sacrifice every single day.

 

[WIP]

What she said.

 

[Forgiven83]

Psalms 16:10-11
10) For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
11) Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures, forevermore.
By taking our sins as stated earlier, Jesus not only suffer three days in the belly of Hell (Matthew 12:39-40; Acts 2:25-35; I Peter 3:19); The Second Person of the Almighty Godhead Trinity suffer separation from the Father and the Spirit because of our sins for those three days. Jesus was made lower than the Angels for the suffering of death (Hebrews 2:9). We as humans could not fathom what it is to be greater then the Angels, but the Son of God, for my sins and everyone elses, who is so much greater than all the Angels put together was made lower than them for our sins.

God Almighty the Creator, who hates and loathes sin, became sin for us suffering the wrath of the Father for those three days so we might have His Grace freely (Romans 5:19-21).

 

[Sinthesis]

Christ gave up the dream life of every megalomaniac that has ever existed. The difference is that Jesus deserved that life, yet gave it up that we might have a fruitful purpose, if only we give up our own destiny to pursue His.

Sometimes it is useful to think about what you would have done in the same situation. Wouldn't it have been tempting for the Messiah to march to Rome and assume the leadership of the Roman Empire? Satan thought so. That's also what the Jewish leadership wanted from the Messiah, and it's still reflected in the desire of some Christians for an earthy millennial kingdom, not to mention the Islamic lust for a dominate caliphate.

Jesus as God incarnate rightly deserved everything the world could ever possibly offer; from the undying adoration of the masses to dominion over the entire globe. Yet He didn't insist on His earthly rights as the Messiah. Rather, in meekness He allowed the world to reject and crucify Him that He might demonstrate His love for us though the grace of an eternity which we can't deserve.