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“This is why Jesus came to die. God meant to show the world that there is no sin and no evil too great that God cannot bring from it everlasting righteousness and joy. The very suffering that we caused became the hope of our salvation.”

“The death of Jesus was the decisive defeat of ‘the ruler of this world’—the devil. […] Not that they were put out of existence. We wrestle with them even now. But they are a defeated foe. […]

[Col. 2:14-15] This is how he ‘disarmed the rulers & authorities & put them to open shame.’ …if God’s law no longer condemns us, b/c Christ canceled our debt, then Satan has no grounds to accuse us.”

“Then, in the grave, he had the right and the power to take the keys of death and open the door for all who come to him by faith. If sin is paid for, and righteousness is provided, and justice is satisfied, nothing can keep Christ or his people in the grave. That’s why Jesus shouts, ‘I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades’ (Revelation 1:18).”

Amen🙌

“Jesus suffered for us uniquely, that we might suffer with him in the cause of love. […] Our suffering for others does not remove the wrath of God. It shows the value of having the wrath of God removed by the suffering of Christ. It points people to him.”

“That’s the first way Gal. 2:20 speaks of the new self: a Christ-inhabited, Christ-sustained, Christ-strengthened me. That’s what Christ died to bring about. That’s what a Christian is. The other way it speaks of the new self is this: it lives by trusting Christ moment by moment. ‘The life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.’”

“His suffering absorbed all the judgment that guilty sinners deserved and purchased all the good that forgiven sinners enjoy. […] When our hearts run back along the beam of blessing to the source in the cross, then the worldliness of the blessing is dead, and Christ crucified is everything.”