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GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 18

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GOD’S WORD FOR JUNE 18 ~ ~ Romans 10:13~ ~ “For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Continuing with John Piper’s book, “The Pleasures of God”

He says:

Isaiah 53:10says that the great transaction between God the Father and God the Son that took place in the death of Jesus was the Father’s PLEASURE. It PLEASED the Lord to bruise him. Or as Paul said, the sacrifice of Christ was “a fragrant aroma go God”(Ephesians 5:2) So the question we may be better able to answer now is, How could the Father delight in the sacrifice of his own Son?

One part of the answer is stressed at the end of verse 10, namely, that God’s pleasure is in what the Son ACCOMPLISHED in dying. It says, “THE PLEASURE of the Lord will prosper in his hand.”

God’s pleasure is not so much in the suffering of the Son, considered in and of itself, but in the great success of what the Son would accomplish in his suffering. For example, it says, “When he makes himself an offering for sin, HE SHALL SEE HIS OFFSPRING, HE SHALL PROLONG HIS DAYS; the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.”

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This means that by his death Jesus begets, as it were, spiritual offspring, and he goes before them into eternity, PROLONGING HIS DAYS forever. He rises from the dead and says, to use the words of Hebrews 2:13, “Here I am and the CHILDREN God has given me.” The way God’s pleasure prospers in the hand of the Son is by creating what we might call the “offspring of the cross” Who are these people?

Isaiah 53:11 describes who they are in terms virtually the same as those used by Paul in Roans 3:24. They are justified sinners—people who are recognized righteous because of the death of Jesus. “He shall see the fruit of the travail (suffering) of his soul and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my Servant, MAKE MANY TO BE ACCOUNTED RIGHTEOUS.” This is the pleasure of God that prospers in the hand of God’s Servant, Jesus—-the justification of the ungodly. This is the first part of the answer to why the Father was pleased to bruise the Son.

But I think another part of the answer must also be what we have seen in Romans 3:25-26—that the depth of the Son’s suffering was the measure of HIS love for the father’s glory. It was the Father’s righteous allegiance to his own name that made recompense for sin necessary. So when the Son willingly took the suffering of the recompense on himself, every footfall on the way to Calvary echoed through the universe with his message: THE GLORY OF GOD IS OF INFINITE VALUE!!! THE GLORY OF GOD IS OF INFINITE VALUE!!!

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