God Bruised Jesus Because He Loved You

 This is copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church of Portsmouth NH. The date of the bulletin is 05/05/2024.



God Bruised Jesus Because He Loved You

        "Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when thou shalt make His soul and offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand." (Isaiah 53:10).


        The suffering Lamb of God! Oh, what an incentive to labor for souls. What an incentive to seek the lost in all the earth. What an incentive to activity, to be "... steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord ..." (1 Corinthians 15:58). It is only by winning soul that we can reward Jesus for His sufferings; only by seeking the lost in all the earth can we satisfy Him for the travail of soul, which He bore for us upon the cross of Calvary.

        Nothing but souls, SOULS will ever compensate Him for those years of suffering which culminated in Gethsemane and Calvary. Our Lord Jesus " ... poured out his soul unto death  ... " (Isaiah 53:12). And what for, beloved? All four souls! All for a lost world!

        Oh, how strange and thrilling are the words of God's amazing love for souls. Who can measure the words of John 3;16? Yet as they fall upon dull ears of sinful man, there is nothing to respond, there is no real comprehension of what it means. Gradually it begins to dawn upon us that there is something super-human, something not of earth, something that most surely must have come from another world.

    In the sufferings of God's Lamb upon the cross of Calvary, God manifesting His wonderous love to the world, that we might learn what John 3;16 means.

    God bruised Jesus because His love for us. He put His only begotten Son to grief and suffering because of love for a lost world. Jesus was stricken, smitten of God the Father because "God so loved the world .." Jesus " ... poured out His soul unto death ... " because He loved a sinful, guilty, rebellious, heathen, God-hating world. Marvel of grace!

    Who can measure such love? Earth has no rule, no measuring rod for Heaven's amazing store of love. If God so loved lost souls, we ought also to love them and give our lives in reaching them with the Gospel, that they might " ... not perish but have everlasting life.".

        "But God cammendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Roman 5:8).

        Let us take a moment to offer praise and meditate together upon God's own Word to our hearts found in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.".

        The matchless grace and love of God cannot be fully described or understood but we know what He has revealed about Himself through His inspired and preserved Word. All three persons of the Godhead were involved in our salvation. God the Father showed His love to a lost and dying world by sending His only begotten Son to this earth to be our Savior. He so loved us that He gave His very best gift! The Lord Jesus demonstrated His love to us and to His Father by willingly and obediently paying for our sins with His own blood on Calvary's cross. The Holy Spirit lovingly drew us to the Savior. 

                    Pastor Donald Gum



TomLeeM

2024 / 05 / 07

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