I Believe Jesus Died, Buried And Descended
Minister: |
Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: |
12/16/2018 AM
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Text:
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Psalm 16;
Lord's Day 16
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Psalters: |
351, 342, 47, 358 |
- The character of His death.
- First, consider what death is: the wages of sin, i.e., God’s just response of wrath against sin.
- Death by crucifixion means that one was cursed of God (Deut. 21:23; Gal. 3:13).
- Burial is a part of death, completing death.
- Hell shows the fullest reality of death, viz., it is the full concentration and experience of divine wrath.
- Jesus experienced death in all its parts, being more conscious of what death is than anyone else.
- Death was a contradiction for Him (as a human) because He never sinned and did not deserve to die.
- Thus Jesus died willingly, voluntarily, of His own will.
- The benefits.
- The willing obedience (lovingly) of Jesus to die is a marvel of grace and love.
- God’s grace sent His own Son “for sin” (Rom. 8:3), i.e., to deal with sin in all its nature and consequence.
- Jesus’ death was the only and the most perfect sacrifice for sin.
- How can death be considered “abolished” (II Tim. 1:10) (brought to nothing) when we still die?
- First, now the death of believers is an entrance into eternal life.
- Second, we must die to abolish sin which resides in the body of this death and the sinful desires of the flesh.
- The final, ultimate victory will be achieved in our bodily resurrection (I Cor.15:54-58).
- Jesus’ burial shows that Jesus left nothing out of our punishment (it did not prove that He was actually dead).
- Jesus’ death earned for us deliverance from hell’s agonies and it earned entrance into the presence of God’s love.