Tuesday

Day 32: Of Christ the Mediator, part 8



8.4 This office the Lord Jesus did most willingly undertake;[y] which that He might discharge, He was made under the law,[z] and did perfectly fulfil it;[a] endured most grievous torments immediately in His soul,[b] and most painful sufferings in His body;[c] was crucified, and died,[d] was buried, and remained under the power of death, yet saw no corruption.[e] On the third day He arose from the dead,[f] with the same body in which He suffered,[g] with which also he ascended into heaven, and there sits at the right hand of His Father,[h] making intercession,[i] and shall return, to judge men and angels, at the end of the world.[k]

(y) Psalm 40:7-8 — Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, Ver.8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Hebrews
10:5-10 — Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: Ver.6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Ver.7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Ver.8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Ver.9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. Ver.10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
John 10:18
— No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
Philippians
2:8 — And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

(z) Galatians 4:4 — But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.

(a) Matthew 3:15 — And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
Matthew 5:17 — Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

(b) Matthew 26:37-38 — And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Ver.38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
Luke
22:44 — And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Matthew
27:46 — And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

(c) Matthew 26-27 — (Read entire chapters.)

(d) Philippians 2:8 — And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

(e) Acts 2:23,24,27 — Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Ver.24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it. Ver.27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
and Acts 13:37
— But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
Romans 6:9
— Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

(f) 1 Corinthians 15:3-5 — For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; Ver.4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Ver.5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve.

(g) John 20:25,27 — The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. Ver.27 Then saith he to Thomas, reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.

(h) Mark 16:19 — So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

(i) Romans 8:34 — Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Hebrews
9:24-25 — For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us. Ver.25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

(k) Romans 14:9-10 — For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living. Ver.10 But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.
Acts
1:11 — Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
Acts 10:42
— And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
Matthew
13:40-42 — As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world; Ver.41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; Ver.42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Jude 6
— And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
2 Peter
2:4 — For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment.



Westminster Shorter Catechism
Q. 27
Wherein did Christ's humiliation consist?
A. Christ's humiliation consisted in his being born, and that in a low condition, made under the law, undergoing the miseries of this life, the wrath of God, and the cursed death of the cross; in being buried, and continuing under the power of death for a time.

Q. 28 Wherein consisteth Christ's exaltation?
A. Christ's exaltation consisteth in his rising again from the dead on the third day, in ascending up into heaven, in sitting at the right hand of God the Father, and in coming to judge the world at the last day.

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