(13) Fixated on Jesus
the Renewal of All Things - Hebrews 2:9-10 (p39f)
Fixated: Advent Meditations from the Book of Hebrews
Tim Chester
10 of those, 2020 ISBN:
9781913278953 73pp
https://www.10ofthose.com/uk/products/26683/fixated
As a human being, Jesus
was a suitable substitute for human beings (in a way that the animal sacrifices
of the Old Testament never really were – Hebrews 10:4). As a human being, Jesus
kept the law we could never keep and faced the penalty of death our sins
deserved (Romans 6:23). As a human being, he could die. As God, his death was
of infinite value. Of course as God Christ could not die (he died as a man,
according to his human nature). It makes sense that the grave could not hold
the Son of God, that he overcame death and hell.
Jesus tasted death, the
writer to the Hebrews says, “for everyone.” All who are saved will be saved
through the blood of Jesus. He died for all sorts of people, for Jews and for
Gentiles and people of all sorts of different backgrounds, men and women, young
and old, rich and poor. Jesus’ death was sufficient for the salvation of all –
it was of infinite worth and power. But Jesus only paid the penalty for sin for
his sheep, his people. He redeemed all those he intended to redeem by paying
the price for their sins. His death is efficient for all who will trust in him,
all whom he will effectually call to whom he will grant saving faith. His death
did not merely make salvation possible for us. He tasted death for us. He died
for us. He died our death. We died in him, that we might live.
What grace of God that we
do not taste the death we deserve! What grace that Christ (God the Son) should
drink the cup of God’s wrath to its very dregs. Praise God that there is none
left for us! Jesus gives us the cup of salvation and blessing.
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