
The episode discusses the cosmic significance of Jesus' death and its implications for humanity's salvation.
Mark 14:32-42 The death of the Lord Jesus Christ is a judicial event of cosmic significance. As He hung upon the Cross, He was proclaiming His love for underserving sinful men, for He was bearing in His person the justice of God upon the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2), so that all might have opportunity to escape that justice in their own persons. The prophet Isaiah, foretelling our Lord’s sufferings, sums up the message for us : “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6). However, until each individual repents of sin and trusts in Christ’s death as the only means of finding mercy, he or she remains in a state of condemnation, which leads on to an eternal punishment (see John 3:18 and Mark 9:45 , where the Lord Jesus speaks of “hell … the fire that shall never be quenched”. In the Saviour’s sacrificial death we are presented with the vey heart and substance of the Christian gospel and can only declare with the hymn writer, “Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all”.(Isaac Watts). ********* Thank you for listening. We give this podcast the subtitle of…
Host: Pastor Peter Simpson
Books & works: The 33:12 Report, Isaiah 53:6, John 3:18, Mark 14:32-42, Mark 9:45
Places: Middlesbrough, England
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