{"id":38686,"date":"2013-03-29T05:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T10:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/?p=38686"},"modified":"2013-03-25T19:19:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T00:19:40","slug":"good-friday-briefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2013\/03\/29\/good-friday-briefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday, Briefly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>On Good Friday we remember the story of Jesus\u2019 death. We participate in that death through eucharist in faith. And we celebrate the good news of that death in thinking and pondering the immense love of God for us \u2014 to clear our debt, to shoulder our load, and to remove our sins.<\/p>\n

Perhaps three prepositions of atonement will be of some use to you today:<\/p>\n

He died with<\/em> us. At the heart of the death of Jesus is that he has completely identified with us. One of the earliest Christian hymns, Philippians 2:6-11, said it like this:<\/p>\n

6<\/sup> Who, being in very natureGod,
\ndid not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
\n7<\/sup> rather, he made himself nothing
\nby taking the very natureof a servant,
\nbeing made in human likeness.
\n8<\/sup> And being found in appearance as a man, <\/em>
\nhe humbled himself
\nby becoming obedient to death\u2014
\neven death on a cross!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice that his death is part of his utter identification with us even to the death. He enters into our life all the way down into the darkness of death.<\/p>\n

He died instead<\/em> of<\/em> us. But death is the punishment of God for sin, and we read about this from Genesis 3 on in the Bible\u2019s Story. The immensity of the good news of the cross is that he shouldered our load and took upon himself our debt, the punishments of our sin, and did so in our place. He took upon himself the justifiable punishment of sin that we have incurred in dying instead of us. Romans 5:16: \u201cThe judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation.\u201d Romans 6:10: \u201cThe death he died, he died to sin once for all\u201d and 6:23: \u201cThe wages of sin is death.\u201d And Jesus became that sin instead of us. 2 Cor 5:21: \u201cGod made him who had no sin to be sinfor us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

He died for<\/em> us. That is, his death (and resurrection) set us free. He died for our benefit<\/em>. The benefits of his death with us and instead of us is salvation, but I want to focus today on liberation. At Passover the theme was liberation from Egypt and the hope of liberation from Rome. That liberation is not just a political liberation but a liberation from sin that led to captivity. So, when Jesus says in Mark 10:45 that he came to serve and to give his life a \u201cransom\u201d for many, he is saying he has entered into enemy territory by dying in our place in order to be the ransom price so that we might be set free from slavery \u2013 in its full compass.<\/p>\n

See A Community Called Atonement: Living Theology<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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