Revealed Will for Christian Servants #6

Driving home: And one such source of constant amazement to me is the way in which the most profound doctrinal truths are found embedded in the soil of the most mysterious, mundane and practical duties and responsibilities.

The way profound doctrinal truths are embedded in mundane duties is likened to rich soil, illustrating that Christian life derives its vitality from doctrine.

bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed, for you were going astray like sheep, but are now returned unto the shepherd and bishop of your souls. There are many things about the scriptures which ought continually to astound and to amaze. There are many things about the scriptures which ought continually to astound and to amaze anyone who reads them with serious attention. Many things which ought constantly to astound and amaze any thoughtful reader of the scriptures. And one such source of constant ama...

1:38 - 2:46 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Peter amplifies the nature of Christ's suffering, emphasizing its intensely personal and voluntary character through the phrase 'who his own self bore our sins,' contrasting it…

The anecdote of Peter rebuking Jesus for speaking of His suffering (Matthew 16) highlights Peter's transformation in understanding Christ's atoning work.

Here's the very man that the first time Jesus makes it plain to him that he must suffer to accomplish redemption. What does he do? He plants himself in front of his Lord and says, this will never happen to you. You can't hack a suffering Messiah.

13:15 - 13:37 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The sermon details Christ's suffering as genuinely sacrificial and substitutionary, using the word 'bore' (anaphero) to connect to the Old Testament sacrificial system and Isaiah…

The Septuagint is described as Peter's 'working Bible,' explaining how the word 'bore' (anaphero) would have resonated with sacrificial connotations for him.

Who? His own self bore our sins. Now the word Peter uses for bore our sins is a word that in Peter's working Bible, you've often heard us refer to the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament Scriptures that was the working Bible of that generation. And this word that Peter uses for bore was the word used dozens of times in that version referring to the activity of priests under the Old Covenant.

17:20 - 17:59 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: Martin explains that Christ bore our sins 'in his body,' emphasizing the tangible, physical reality of His sacrifice, drawing parallels to the concreteness of Old Testament animal…

The physical act of offering an animal sacrifice (slitting throat, blood, body on altar) illustrates the tangible, corporeal reality of Christ's sacrifice 'in his body'.

You've got to remember the Jewish background, the sacrificial system. When you came up to the place of God's appointment to offer a sacrifice, what did you present? You presented a lamb. You presented, a he-goat, a bullock, whatever it was.

24:20 - 24:39 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The phrase 'on the tree' is expounded to reveal Christ's suffering as publicly judicial and shameful, connecting it to Deuteronomy 21:22-23 and Galatians 3:13, where being hung on…

Peter's Jewish upbringing and initial prejudice against Gentiles are mentioned to explain why he would use the term 'on a tree' with its specific Old Testament connotations.

Remember, Peter's a Jew by birth, by upbringing. It took a long time for him to even believe that Gentiles were worthy of being entered into with open-faced, unrestricted social intercourse. God had to give him visions and then later on had to have an apostle rebuke him for his ethnic pride and prejudice and all the rest. When Peter uses the term upon the wood, upon a tree, what was in his mind?

31:37 - 32:10 Read in full sermon

Driving home: Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. How do we know he was made a curse for us? For it is written, cursed is everyone that hangs on a what? Same word, on a tree.

A commentator's explanation is quoted to clarify that crucifixion, though not Jewish, aligned with the Deuteronomic concept of an 'accursed death' by being hung on a tree.

One commentator writes helpfully, crucifixion was not a Jewish punishment. And the quotation from Deuteronomy, 21, 23, originally referred to the hanging of dead bodies of flagrant sinners on the tree of shame to show that they were accursed of God. So the very means of Christ's death showed it to be an accursed death. His being hanged on the tree proved that he was made a curse.

36:29 - 36:58 Read in full sermon

In this part of the sermon: The phrase 'on the tree' is expounded to reveal Christ's suffering as publicly judicial and shameful, connecting it to Deuteronomy 21:22-23 and Galatians 3:13, where being hung on…

The historical practice of stripping slaves naked and leaving them to die on a cross illustrates the public and shameful nature of Christ's death.

The artists are kind to us. But it is a known fact that that horrible death, invented as far as we know originally by the Phoenicians, was one in which they stripped the slaves naked. And hung them up sometimes to die in a process that took days. Publicly. Judicial.

38:59 - 39:31 Read in full sermon

The point: Manifest in your life that Jesus did not die in vain; demonstrate that what you were is dead and buried in Christ, and what you now are has no explanation but that you share in the resurrection life and power of Jesus Ch…

John Owen's quote, 'unless the death of Christ for sin has become your death to sin you are yet dead in sin,' powerfully summarizes the sermon's central ethical purpose.

died to sin how should we live any longer then? Or are you ignorant that as many of us as were baptized into Christ were baptized into his death we were buried therefore with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised by the glory of the Father even so we all should walk in newness of life death and life Colossians chapter 2 you died Colossians 3 you died and your life is hid with Christ in God this is the teaching of the word of God and as I pondered this and said Lord how do I illustrate it how do I explain it I finally had to say in frustration I can't I can only declare it th...

48:08 - 49:36 Read in full sermon