The Passion Narratives No 3 – The Suffering Servant
The very fact that the Hebrews writer refers to “this MAN” emphasises the point to Christ’s humanity as necessary to the sacrifice of Himself as an offering for sin (Heb.10:5, 10). Further references to His “body” and his “flesh” also emphasise this, “Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But a body You have prepared for Me” (Heb.10:5). “But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, from that time waiting till His enemies are made His footstool” (Heb.10:12-13). “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us[a] to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit” (1Pet.3:18). Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin (1Pet.4:1). I am not suggesting that our salvation was accomplished through the physical sufferings and death of Jesus as a man, but these Scripture make it clear that Christ’s humanity was necessary to His gaining salvation. Alongside the verse in Hebrews read, “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Heb.9:14). 2) “He was bruised for our iniquities”
New Life Radio – Talk No 23
34 Derrick Harrison
17/03/2021
