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    Apr 02, 2021

    Accomplished!

    Preacher: John Repsold

    Category: Good Friday Service

    Keywords: salvation, crucifixion, good friday, finished, accomplished

    Summary:

    Sacrifice should accomplish something. So just what did the sacrifice of Christ actually accomplish? This devotional takes a brief look at just some fo what the crucifixion of the Christ accomplished.

    Detail:

    Good Friday

    What Did the Death of Jesus Accomplish?

    April 2, 2021

     

    WHY do we as humans make sacrifices for others? 

    • Parents make great sacrifices of everything from sleep and wealth to convenience and health to bring children into this world and raise them to be productive, successful human beings.
    • Our military servicemen and women sacrifice safety and independence, even sometimes their very lives, to protect us from other evil nations and to guard our God-given rights.

    So WHY did Jesus make the horrific sacrifice He did?  What came of this terribly unjust and gruesome death of His? 

                As we draw tonight’s service to a close, I would invite you to consider what this sacrifice of Jesus 2,000 years ago did for YOU.  What changed because of His sacrifice?  What really got accomplished because Jesus willingly died for you when He didn’t have to?  Let me remind you of ___ different life-changing, eternity-shaping things that Jesus’ death for you accomplished that Good Friday so long ago.

    1.  Christ’s death actually removed/took away our sin and guilt.

    Sin = our rejection of God through thoughts, words and deeds that reveal we are rebelling against God’s nature, against His truth that flows from His nature and against His universal laws given to us about right and wrong.  Every human being from Adam on (with the exception of Jesus himself) has been born in sin and lived a rebel’s life against God.  The O.T. sacrificial system temporarily covered the sins of people who made those sacrifices in faith.  But when Jesus came and became the “Lamb of God” for us, He didn’t just cover our sin and guilt; He took it away…as far as the east is from the west…to a place no one will ever be able to go, grab it and wave it in our face again.  The guilt of our sin was taken from us and placed on Christ—“the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29)  For those who put their faith in this Lamb, Jesus, we will never have to answer to God Almighty for a single sinful thought, word, deed or failure to act as we should have.  Our sin is GONE! 


    1. Christ’s death gave us His righteousness. It replaced our bad spiritual record/rap sheet and actions with His own holy and absolutely sinless record and righteousness.  It’s never enough to just NOT do wrong.  We don’t reward people for not killing people, not stealing from us, not beating us up.  It takes more than just not doing evil to have relationship with someone.  We must be people who actually do others good before they want ongoing relationships with us. 

                So Jesus applied all his good living, all his holiness of nature, all his morality and kindness, his love and goodness from time and eternity to us in exchange for our sin. 

    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.

    1 Peter 2:24—He himself bore our sins in his body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness.

    1.  Christ’s death wiped out God’s wrath against us and our sin. By dying in our place for our sins, Christ removed the wrath of God that we sinners and our sins justly deserved. 

    Romans 5:9--Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

    1 Thessalonians 5:9--For God did not appoint us to suffer 

    wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

    1. Christ’s death redeemed us…it provided us with redemption. To redeem something simply means you pay the price for its release from whomever is holding it captive. Our sins had put us in captivity to God’s Law and sin itself.  We needed to be delivered. Christ’s death provided us with the appropriate and sufficient payment that would release us from the curse and power of God’s righteous Law.  That came to us through the cleansing of His blood.

    Galatians 3:13--Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”

    Ephesians 1:7--In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace

    Christ redeemed us from the power of sin. With this redemption from the power of sin, we are now free to live righteously… doing and being good just as God is and does good. 

    1 Corinthians 6:20--You have been bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your bodies.

    1. Christ’s death defeated the power of Satan.When Jesus died that day outside Jerusalem, Satan thought he had won. He thought he had defeated his arch-enemy, God.  But the fortunate reality for us was just the opposite:  God crushed Satan’s head.  God “disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him (Colossians 2:15). …having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross (Colossians 2:13-14).

                And his death gave us all the authority we need to defeat Satan and triumph over Him in this life and the next. 

    1. Christ’s death reconciled us to God. 

    We’ve all lived with unreconciled relationships in life, haven’t we.  If the other party is actually a really good person, that miserable.  We all needed someone to be a peace-maker for us, a reconciler of our broken relationship with God.  The death of Jesus so many years ago actually did that for us.  It actually reconciled us to THE most amazing Being ever—God. 

    Romans 5:10-11—For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

    Isaiah 53:5—“But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him….” Jesus’ death made peace with God possible.  For those who embrace Him by faith, it made that peace reality. 

    By the way, the prophet Isaiah prophesied about the death of the Messiah some 7 centuries before Christ came on the scene.  In Isaiah 53, Isaiah speaks about what this Divine Servant’s work would accomplish.  So here are a few more things the death of Jesus accomplished that day 2,000 years ago that were prophesied by Isaiah in the 8th century B.C. 

     

    1. Christ exchanged places with us as our substitute and accomplished all of the above benefits for us by dying in our place. 

    Isaiah 53:5-6—He was pierced through for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities. … the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him.

    1.  Christ paid for our spiritual, emotional, relational, mental and physical healing.  

    Isaiah 53:5—"…the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.”

    Got some emotional scars in life?  Have some memories that need healing?  Ever get sick or have a long disease?  Ever feel sick in your soul?  God arranged for your healing and mine at the cross of Jesus Christ. 


    CONCLUSION:  What difference did the death of that one man Jesus, that One God the Son, make that day?  More difference to more people for more time than any other human death could ever make in this world.  That is what we contemplate tonight.  Jesus is who we worship for all this tonight.