PT-1 "The Proportion And Power of His Suffering" (Matt. 20:19b)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/23/2023 7:57 AM

 

My Worship Time                              Focus:  PT-1“The Proportion And Power of His Suffering”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  Matthew 20:19b

 

            Message of the verse:  “to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up//”

 

            “To mock and scourge and crucify Him” is the first phrase and it describes what might be called the proportion of Jesus’ suffering, the degree of agony to which He was unjustly but willingly condemned. 

           

            What Jesus went through in the mocking and scourging was actually the custom with prisoners who were not Roman citizens, even if they had not been convicted of a crime.  We can see that the Roman’s were ruthless people when it came to punishing criminals, and even though Jesus was not a criminal as He did nothing wrong, this was what was going to happen to Him in order for my sins and your sins to be paid. 2Co 5:21 “ He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

 

            The first thing that happened to Jesus was that Pilate had Him scourged with leather whips in which sharp pieces of bond and metal were embedded.  Then this soldier “took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole Roman cohort around Him.  And they stripped Him, and put a scarlet robe on Him.  And after weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they kneeled down before Him and mocked Him, saying, ‘Hail, King of the Jews!’  And they spat on Him, and took the reed and began to beat Him on the head’ (Matt. 27:26-30).  Only after that painful humiliation did they take Him away and crucify Him.

 

            John MacArthur writes “IT is significant that, when referring to Christ’s sufferings before and during His crucifixion, the New Testament always uses the plural (see 2 Cor. 1:5; Phil. 3:10; Heb. 2:10; 1 Pet. 1:11; 4:13).  His pain was not on dimensional, but involved sufferings of many sorts.”  Now in the three SD’s in which I quoted from MacArthur’s sermons we saw that he went into detail about the different kinds of sufferings that Jesus went through for the likes of me and everyone else.

 

4/23/2023 8:20 AM