![]() ![]() Our text today is one of those lovely OT prophecies from Isaiah, in which the Holy Spirit has Isaiah record the words that the Father speaks to the Son. Pondering Jesus’ suffering and death for our sin, seeing what our sins earn us and what we deserve because of them, becomes an occasion for us to see the depths of God’s love for us and leads us to love Him all the more for His grace and mercy.Īs we examine our text today, we begin to ponder Jesus’ journey to the cross and see both how difficult the road was for Him but the blessings resulting for us.ġ. The examination of our heart and life in the light of the Law that Lent leads us to does not bring us into despair because we have looked ahead toward Easter and saw Jesus’ victory and now are certain of our forgiveness and peace with God and nothing can destroy that. As we look ahead to Easter-Jesus’ resurrection victory-we are strengthened in our faith we are assured that Jesus’ work for us is certain and complete, that indeed our sins are forgiven-a forgiveness won for us by Jesus’ perfect, once for all, suffering and death on the cross.Īssured that Jesus has paid for our sins and that God’s wrath over our sin has been poured out on Jesus and that we are now, in Christ, reconciled to God, forgiven our sins, we can use the 40 days of Lent to seriously and thoroughly examine our hearts and lives, recognize our sin, sorrow over our sin and strive by the Holy Spirit’s power to root sin out of our lives. That’s what we have been doing this entire season of Pre-Lent: we have been looking at Easter. It is a Latin word that tells us that today we are 50 days from Easter. It is a path that leads to His crucifixion but ultimately, finally, to the empty tomb, to victory over our greatest enemies, our spiritual enemies-sin, death, devil and hell. Today we prepare to leave the short season of pre-Lent and during the 40 days of Lent to travel with our Lord Jesus to Jerusalem. ![]()
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