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Friday, February 20

What Jesus fulfilled on the Cross

In the first few scriptures below we see how Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of the Old Testament of His coming and The New Covenant.

Isaiah 53:1-12 (GNB)
(1) The people reply, "Who would have believed what we now report? Who could have seen the LORD's hand in this?
(2) It was the will of the LORD that his servant grow like a plant taking root in dry ground. He had no dignity or beauty to make us take notice of him. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing that would draw us to him.
(3) We despised him and rejected him; he endured suffering and pain. No one would even look at him--- we ignored him as if he were nothing.
(4) "But he endured the suffering that should have been ours, the pain that we should have borne. All the while we thought that his suffering was punishment sent by God.
(5) But because of our sins he was wounded, beaten because of the evil we did. We are healed by the punishment he suffered, made whole by the blows he received.
(6) All of us were like sheep that were lost, each of us going his own way. But the LORD made the punishment fall on him, the punishment all of us deserved.
(7) "He was treated harshly, but endured it humbly; he never said a word. Like a lamb about to be slaughtered, like a sheep about to be sheared, he never said a word.
(8) He was arrested and sentenced and led off to die, and no one cared about his fate. He was put to death for the sins of our people.
(9) He was placed in a grave with those who are evil, he was buried with the rich, even though he had never committed a crime or ever told a lie."
(10) The LORD says, "It was my will that he should suffer; his death was a sacrifice to bring forgiveness. And so he will see his descendants; he will live a long life, and through him my purpose will succeed.
(11) After a life of suffering, he will again have joy; he will know that he did not suffer in vain. My devoted servant, with whom I am pleased, will bear the punishment of many and for his sake I will forgive them.
(12) And so I will give him a place of honor, a place among the great and powerful. He willingly gave his life and shared the fate of evil men. He took the place of many sinners and prayed that they might be forgiven."

Psalms 40:6-8 (ESV)
(6) In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
(7) Then I said, "Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me:
(8) I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart."

Pro 8:35-36 (GNB)
(35) Those who find me find life, and the LORD will be pleased with them.
(36) Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death."

Malachi 4:5-6 (GNB)
(5) "But before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes, I will send you the prophet Elijah.
(6) He will bring fathers and children together again; otherwise I would have to come and destroy your country."

Here in these scriptures below from the New Testament we see how Jesus has saved us by His Blood, and how He has given us hope, mercy, favor, and God's love by taking on the burden of our sins. For through Jesus' death and resurrection He has given us a paved highway to the Most High in Heaven!! AMEN!!

Rom 5:8-12 (GNB)
(8) But God has shown us how much he loves us---it was while we were still sinners that Christ died for us!
(9) By his blood we are now put right with God; how much more, then, will we be saved by him from God's anger!
(10) We were God's enemies, but he made us his friends through the death of his Son. Now that we are God's friends, how much more will we be saved by Christ's life!
(11) But that is not all; we rejoice because of what God has done through our Lord Jesus Christ, who has now made us God's friends.
(12) Sin came into the world through one man, and his sin brought death with it. As a result, death has spread to the whole human race because everyone has sinned.

Rom 5:18-19 (GNB)
(18) So then, as the one sin condemned all people, in the same way the one righteous act sets all people free and gives them life.
(19) And just as all people were made sinners as the result of the disobedience of one man, in the same way they will all be put right with God as the result of the obedience of the One Man.

Hebrews 9:11-15 (GNB)
(11) But Christ has already come as the High Priest of the good things that are already here. The tent in which he serves is greater and more perfect; it is not a tent made by human hands, that is, it is not a part of this created world.
(12) When Christ went through the tent and entered once and for all into the Most Holy Place, he did not take the blood of goats and bulls to offer as a sacrifice; rather, he took his own blood and obtained eternal salvation for us.
(13) The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a burnt calf are sprinkled on the people who are ritually unclean, and this purifies them by taking away their ritual impurity.
(14) Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God.
(15) For this reason Christ is the one who arranges a new covenant, so that those who have been called by God may receive the eternal blessings that God has promised. This can be done because there has been a death which sets people free from the wrongs they did while the first covenant was in effect.

Pro 8:35-36 (GNB)
(35) Those who find me find life, and the LORD will be pleased with them.
(36) Those who do not find me hurt themselves; anyone who hates me loves death."

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