OPC'n
Puritan Board Doctor
The other day I was thinking about Christ's death on the cross. Two aspects popped into my head: Him bearing and satisfying God's wrath (or literally going to hell for us but actually paying our debt which we would have had to pay in hell for forever) and His actual death.
Let me know if I have this messed up or not. The first mission accomplished on the cross was Christ bearing God's wrath in three hours for His children, because we could have never bore it no matter how much time was given to us. This He did before He died. But was there another mission He determined to accomplish? The age old enemy that came into this world at the time of the fall.....spiritual and physical death. God had promised Adam and Eve death if they disobeyed Him. That was the consequence of sin. Now Christ paid for our sins on the cross giving us eternal, spiritual life ridding us of spiritual death. Then He died Himself.....in order to raise from the grave in order to conquer physical death and give us eternal physical life. So He bore our sins to pay for them, but He died to give us eternal life....two separate but mutually needed missions.
Let me know if I have this messed up or not. The first mission accomplished on the cross was Christ bearing God's wrath in three hours for His children, because we could have never bore it no matter how much time was given to us. This He did before He died. But was there another mission He determined to accomplish? The age old enemy that came into this world at the time of the fall.....spiritual and physical death. God had promised Adam and Eve death if they disobeyed Him. That was the consequence of sin. Now Christ paid for our sins on the cross giving us eternal, spiritual life ridding us of spiritual death. Then He died Himself.....in order to raise from the grave in order to conquer physical death and give us eternal physical life. So He bore our sins to pay for them, but He died to give us eternal life....two separate but mutually needed missions.