On this most awful and wonderful day we remember what we did to God... but on Sunday we can celebrate and remember what God did for us!
"He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement for our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed." ~Isaiah 53:5
"'It is finished. That’s the message. It’s the message that Jesus gave from the cross as He realized that the sacrifice had been paid, that God’s anger against sin, God’s righteous wrath against sin, God’s holiness, God’s justice had been fully satisfied. The sacrifice had been made once and for all and it was finished.
The plan of redemption was accomplished. There was no more offering of sacrifices, no more lambs to be brought and offered up on those altars every time somebody sinned. The sacrifice was finished. The price was paid. The gospel was accomplished. It was at that moment when He cried out, “It is finished,” that the curtain that separated men from the presence of God in the holy temple, that curtain was torn in half from top to bottom opening up access for sinners who came through Christ into the holy presence of God. "
The plan of redemption was accomplished. There was no more offering of sacrifices, no more lambs to be brought and offered up on those altars every time somebody sinned. The sacrifice was finished. The price was paid. The gospel was accomplished. It was at that moment when He cried out, “It is finished,” that the curtain that separated men from the presence of God in the holy temple, that curtain was torn in half from top to bottom opening up access for sinners who came through Christ into the holy presence of God. "
~Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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