PUNISHED FOR YOU AND ME! So what did God do to bring us back into His eternal fold? God would send the Messiah to bring us back into the fold. The Chief Shepherd laying down His life for the lost, straying, rebellious sheep. Our consequences were made to fall on the Servant. The effects of our behavior were made to fall upon Jesus. The Good Shepherd laid down His life for the sheep, to create the way back to God. God made this One suffer the consequences, the result, of our rebellion. The iniquity of all of us fell on Him on an old rugged cross. Who would do such an valiant and amazing thing? God pulled aside the curtain of time to let the people of Isaiah’s day look ahead to the suffering of the future Messiah and the resulting forgiveness made available to all mankind. We have the hindsight to see and know the identity of the promised Messiah who came and died for our sins. He did so to bring you back into the fold of God. Have you given your life to Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd (John 10:11-16) or are you still like a straying sheep, going your own way? Some EARLY SETTLERS were traveling together across the western prairies of the United States. One day they were horrified to see a fire fanned by strong wind coming their way.As the flames raced closer and closer, one man, to the amazement of the others, set fire to a large patch of grass downwind. The tinder-dry grass burned quickly and left behind a charred and barren area. Then he told them to move onto the burned-over place. They watched as the fire swept toward them until it reached the burned area-and then stopped! They were safe as the fire passed by them on both sides. The fires of God’s judgment will descend on a wicked world, but God has provided a burned-over place. At Calvary, the fire of God’s justice was met by Jesus. He bore our sin there and fully paid for our transgressions. He made full satisfaction for our sins, and we who have taken our stand by faith in the finished work of Christ are safe in the burned-over place. There is nothing left to burn.Jesus bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness-by whose stripes you were healed from living a life of iniquity (1 Peter 2:24). Are you in the burned-over place? Jesus died in our place to provide a place of safety.The flames of God’s judgment can never touch me, For Jesus has borne all God’s wrath on the tree; I now stand secure in the burned-over place, a sinner, unworthy, yet saved by His grace.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 01:44:19 +0000
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