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Imagine this scenario, just for a moment. It’s coming to the end of tax time, and you need to get your taxes filed. Imagine, if in a couple of weeks, you get a letter from the IRS informing you that not only are you being audited, but as they’ve gone back over your records for the last seven years, it turns out you owe some back taxes you weren’t aware of. By the time you add in the back taxes, the fines and the penalties, you owe the IRS approximately $250,000 and you have 30 days to come up with the payment or make arrangements for the payment. Otherwise, you’re going to face ten years in prison. You have $100 left in your check account. $250,000 isn’t anywhere near what you can pay the IRS. You’ve got a no win situation. Even if you do find someone to loan you the money, it is going to financially destroy you for years to come. If you don’t pay it, you’ve got ten years of prison ahead of you, which will completely destroy your life. Think of the horror that would come over you as your read that letter from the IRS- the panic, the fear, the dread, the terror of what you just readp.

That’s an imaginary scenario, but the reality of what humanity faces is real- and it’s far more worse than anything the IRS could levy against us. We begin to get the sense of that in Matthew 27:

• 1 When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death. 2 And they bound him and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate the governor.

  3 Then when Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” 5 And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself. 6 But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is blood money.” 7 So they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field as a burial place for strangers. 8 Therefore that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. 9 Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the sons of Israel, 10 and they gave them for the potter’s field, as the Lord directed me.”

  11 Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus said, “You have said so.” 12 But when he was accused by the chief priests and elders, he gave no answer. 13 Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?” 14 But he gave him no answer, not even to a single charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.

  15 Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted. 16 And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. 17 So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” 18 For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. 19 Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.” 20 Now the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy Jesus. 21 The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.” 22 Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?” They all said, “Let him be crucified!” 23 And he said, “Why, what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more, “Let him be crucified!”

  24 So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” 25 And all the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!” 26 Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.

  27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters, and they gathered the whole battalion before him. 28 And they stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on his head and put a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” 30 And they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head. 31 And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.

  32 As they went out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name. They compelled this man to carry his cross. 33 And when they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Place of a Skull), 34 they offered him wine to drink, mixed with gall, but when he tasted it, he would not drink it. 35 And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots. 36 Then they sat down and kept watch over him there. 37 And over his head they put the charge against him, which read, “This is Jesus, the King of the Jews.” 38 Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. 39 And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads 40 and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.” 41 So also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, mocked him, saying, 42 “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God; let God deliver him now, if he desires him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44 And the robbers who were crucified with him also reviled him in the same way.

  45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 47 And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” 48 And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. 49 But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.

  51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many. 54 When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said, “Truly this was the Son of God!”

  55 There were also many women there, looking on from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him, 56 among whom were Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Joseph and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

  57 When it was evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also was a disciple of Jesus. 58 He went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 59 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen shroud 60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away. 61 Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were there, sitting opposite the tomb.

  62 The next day, that is, after the day of Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate 63 and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’ 64 Therefore order the tomb to be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples go and steal him away and tell the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last fraud will be worse than the first.” 65 Pilate said to them, “You have a guard of soldiers. Go, make it as secure as you can.” 66 So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard.

The question before us is what happened that day? What exactly took place on the day Jesus was crucified? It’s been 21 years since the Lord has saved me, and I never thought that we’d be at the point we’re at today as American Christians, debating what we are debating nowadays. When the Lord first saved me, one of the debates was “Is the Bible truly inerrant? Is the Bible without error?”

We essentially forfeited that debate and we went on to another debate: “We can disagree on inerrancy, but let’s agree on the authority of Scripture.” Once you forfeit the grounds of inerrancy, you’ve got no ground to stand on to defend the grounds for authority. We begin to see the snowball put into effect. As Christians, we want to make the Gospel more relevant- to throw open the doors for more people to respond to the Gospel. The cover on the latest edition of Newsweek is “The Rise and Fall of Christian America.” Inside, a story tells that over the last 20 years, the number of those who profess to be Christians has drastically decreased and the number of those who profess no religion (or atheists) is drastically increasing.

It says we are now seeing the early signs of a post-Christian nation. They point out in the last couple of elections that those who profess to be Evangelicals have lost their influence in shaping our society. I think much of it is due to what we as Christians are doing to the Gospel. The same thing that happened here in Matthew 27.

The best selling book in Christian stores right now is “The Shack” by William Paul Young. The author, in several of his interviews, has been flat out asked and he has flat out denied what is called the substitutionary atonement. We have now taken the atonement of Jesus Christ and thrown it out the window- and we wonder why our Gospel seems so irrelevant. Sadly, in many ways, we have reserved theology for the pastors and the seminary classrooms- thinking you aren’t equipped enough to handle theology.

Miller Erickson has one of the standard theology books. In it, he says, “In the atonement, we come to the crucial point of Christian faith.” The atoning work of Jesus Christ is a vital component of the Christian faith. Once we start to play fast and loose of the atoning work of Jesus Christ, we’ve about sealed our own fate.

I want us to go through Scripture and talk about some of the things that took place when Jesus died upon the cross. We’re going to use some theological terms, but I think they’re terms worth defining and understanding.

The first term is propitiation from the Greek hilasterion, which is defined as “a means of appeasing or satisfying.” In Romans 3 we see how this plays out- what it means to have a means of appeasing or satisfying.

In Romans 3:23-26:

• “But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it— the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

What is the sense of the propitiation or the means of appeasing or the means of satisfying? Romans 3 tell us that first, God is the just and the justifier. He is the just, holy and righteous judge of all the universe.

When Jesus died on the cross, he was our propitiation, our means of satisfying, our means of appeasing- and it has something to do with our sins and God’s justice.

Let’s add to this by reading from Hebrews 2:17:

• Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

In other words, someone who could come into the world and be like us, but better than us. Whereas we have sinned and broken God’s commandments. Whoever was to make propitiation for our sins had to be somebody who had never sinned- who knew no sin, was perfect, was spotless and blameless. Who could then satisfy and appease the wrath of God.

In 1 John 2:2:

• He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.

The first issue we’re faced with is what the cross is all about. Somehow the wrath of God needs to be appeased, satisfied- there needs to be propitiation. God needs to punish sin, period- because is he holy and loving.

Consider the man who recently shot and killed three police officers in Pittsburgh. When that man stands before the judge, imagine this response from the judge: “I’m such a loving, compassionate, good man, I’ll just let you walk out of the court room. I know you just had a bad day. Don’t worry- shrug it off and start over.” There would be a national outrage because his crimes need to be punished.

Sin needs to be punished. The wrath of God needs to be poured out upon sin.

We have two options according to Scripture. Either you can suffer under the weight of God’s wrath, or there can be someone to make propitiation for you. This is where we come into the concept of a substitutionary sacrifice. We should have been the objects of God’s wrath, but somebody else stepped in and was our substitute.

In 1 Peter 2:24:

• He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Jesus Christ bore our sins upon Himself. He took all our sins- put them in one big pile and said give them to me. He will take them upon Himself and be our substitute. God needs to punish our sins and Jesus said, “Give them to me.”

In Hebrews 9:27-28:

• And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.

The reality we face is that we’ve broken God’s law and we deserve the full weight of God’s wrath. That punishment is set to begin on Judgment Day, but Jesus took that upon Himself- the full weight of God’s wrath so that when we stand before God on Judgment Day, our sin has already been paid for and punished in someone else.

In Isaiah 52:13-53:6; 53:10:

• Behold, my servant shall act wisely; he shall be high and lifted up, and shall be exalted. As many were astonished at you— his appearance was so marred, beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind— so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand. Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.Yet it was the will of the Lord to crush him.

When you read that description, immediately a movie like “The Passion of the Christ” should come to mind and just how horrible the flogging and crucifixion of Jesus Christ really was, even though the movie doesn’t get to the beginning of what Jesus suffered. Isaiah 52 says you couldn’t even recognize he was human by the time it was done.

Then it says it pleased God to do that. That’s where we begin to get into trouble because there are many who say the cross wasn’t about some substitutionary atonement or sacrifice, it was just a demonstration of love. Which to that, I say to every husband, to show your wife how much you love her, schedule yourself a crucifixion for next February 14th. Nothing says I love you like a crucifixion. That makes no sense.

If Jesus just wanted to show love, wouldn’t it have made more sense for Him to stay in the world and continue to teach what it meant to love? To exhibit and demonstrate to His followers what it looked like to love people around Him?

Rather, between the age of 30 and 33, He allowed Himself to be brutally crucified- and this pleased God. Why would it please God? Why would it be God’s will to crush His only Son? I can’t imagine ever doing that. Even for the people I love most in the world, I wouldn’t take one of my kids and have them slaughtered for anyone. I love my kids too much.

But it pleased God to crush Jesus for His enemies, no less. Jesus was punished for our sins. The wrath of God had to be appeased, satisfied- and Jesus took the full weight of God’s wrath.

Leon Morris wrote a book in 1965 titled “The Cross in the New Testament” and in it he said, “Christ took our place, as a sacrificial victim took the place of the worshiper. I realize that the significance of sacrifice is widely disputed and that there are some who reject any substitutionary aspect. I can only state dogmatically that in my judgment, sacrifice cannot be satisfactorily understood without including an aspect of substitution. Christ died as our sacrifice. He died accordingly as our substitute.”

The wrath of God had to be poured out upon sin. Jesus took that sin upon Himself in what became the Great Exchange.

In 2 Corinthians 5:21:

• For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

There are a couple of points that are portrayed in that verse. God made Him who knew no sin to be sin. In other words, you have Jesus on one side and all of us on the other. Jesus is standing on one side with a garment that is pure, spotless, blameless, radiant, perfect, holy and glorious- and we’re on the other side, in our garments that are filthy, rotten, stench-filled, disgusting garments of sin. Every single one of us.

The Great Exchange is that God took Him who knew no sin and took all our garments, all of our disgusting robes of sin and put them on Jesus and took his spotless and radiant robe and put it on us, so now that in Christ, we might be the righteousness of God. In Greek, the word righteousness is dikaiosune which means “the state of being as one ought to be” or “the state of being acceptable to God.”

I’m not trying to split hairs on terminology, but we often hear people say “Accept Jesus Christ.” I understand what’s said there and I’ve said the phrase many times. The reality isn’t that we need to accept Jesus, it is that Jesus needs to accept us- and we can’t do that ourselves because we’ve had those disgusting robes on for so long.

If you have kids, you will know they want to wear the same thing over and over everyday. It gets to the point where their clothes stink pretty bad. You could use the phrase “they could stand up by their selves” to describe them.

We have so worn those garments of sin that they have so conformed to us that we can’t even take them off by ourselves. We’re helpless to do it. If you have a heart attack and fall over and just collapse, there is nothing you can do to revive yourself. If there’s any hope for you, someone else needs to step in and do CPR. Somebody else has to come in on your behalf to revive you.

Spiritually, all of us are in that position. There’s nothing we can do to revive ourselves. We’re in trouble. There’s nothing we can do to get that garment of sin off of us. We need someone else to take that off of us and give us the garment we should have. To put that garment of righteousness on us in what’s call imputed righteousness- that God takes the righteousness of Christ and imputes it upon us.

When Jesus died on the cross, in that bloody, gory mess, the full weight of the wrath of God was poured out. Every garment of sin was put upon Jesus in that afternoon. That’s what happened on Good Friday.

And here we are on the other side. The ones who stained those garments that Jesus died for. Where do we come out at the end of the day? We’ve got the spotless, radiant robe of righteousness that was put on us by God the Father Himself.

Let’s go back to the original illustration about your letter from the IRS. Just after you finish reading the letter, your friend calls. He asks you, “What’s going on?” You tell him you just received a letter from the IRS and are in huge trouble. He says, “Tell me about it.” You explain it, and he says “No problem. It just so happens I thought this might happen. In the event of it happening, I’ve already sold my house, sold every possession I’ve had to my name. I’ve got $250,000- the check is in the mail to the IRS tomorrow. Throw the letter away. You’re clear.”

Imagine the relief- all that tension, horror, dread and panic that was overcoming you moments ago just disappears. How would you feel toward that friend who has sacrificed so greatly so that you could be free? There’s more to Good Friday and the story than just that.

There are two types of people reading this. The first type are the people who still need to have that Great Exchange take place. The Bible says if you want that Great Exchange to take place – it doesn’t happen automatically – there needs to be a response. You can still stand before God on Judgment Day in one of two ways.

You can take the chances and roll the dice and say, “I’m good enough.” Despite your wretched garment, you think maybe you can get off on your own good works. Isaiah 64:6 says all of our righteous deeds are filthy rags. Even the best we can be possible do for God is not much better than that wretched robe we’ve been wearing.

If you want to stand before God on your own merits, your own good works, you’re in huge trouble on Judgment Day. Your only hope is to repent of your sins – turn away from your sins – and allow the Lord to cast that garment off of you. Trust in Jesus Christ. Let Him put that robe of righteousness on you. Surrender your life to Him.

I would encourage you to not go another second without knowing that Great Exchange has taken place- that you’ve given your life to Jesus Christ, surrendered your life to Him fully.

The other type of people reading this are those who’ve already had the Great Exchange take place. They need to remember the Gospel isn’t just the entry point to the Christian life, but the everything of our Christian life.

Here’s the reality of the magnitude of God’s love. Obviously, I believe the cross was a massive demonstration of God’s love, but not so much that Jesus just wanted to show us that love. Something happened that was a demonstration of love. Jesus took our place- our punishment upon Himself.

Think about this reality. Let’s go back to your friend who paid off your debt to the IRS. Next year at tax time, you do your taxes and realize you owe the IRS $1,000. You’ve got no money to pay the IRS and you panic again. Your friend calls and tells you, “Just in case this happened- even though I still have no home, nothing to my name,  I’ve been saving all year every penny I could, just to help you out.” He saved up enough money to bail you out with the IRS, once again.

Not only does he do this every year, but when he calls you and finds out that you’ve maxed out your credit card, he pays off the statement. Whatever your electric bill- he’s got it covered. Your gas bill- he’s got it. You own nobody anything because he keeps sending checks on your behalf.

One of two things can happen there. First, that could enable you. This guy is going to bail me out? This summer I’m cranking up the Air Conditioner. This winter, it’s going to be nice and toasty in my house, because I’m not flipping the bill for it- he is! He’s going to pay off my credit card? Great! That means I have $10,000 at my disposal again- I’m going to rack that thing up.

So every month you rack up the bill and he pays it off. You spend like there is no tomorrow because someone is always going to bail you out. As you consider your friend, who has sacrificed everything for you, for your freedom, would that not be an insult to his sacrifice?

Too often as Christians people will say “If God is going to forgive me anyway, I might as well go ahead and do it.” This is the same thing Paul talks about in Romans.

In Romans 6:1-2:

• “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?”

Does the grace of God give us a license to sin and just do whatever we want because God is going to forgive us? Don’t be crazy! What a gross insult to the one who was sacrificed in our place!

Here is what should happen with you towards your friend. You are so overwhelmed and humbled by his sacrifice that you say, “I am not turning on that Air Conditioner this summer because I don’t want him flipping the bill for it. I’m not going to put a penny on my credit card because I don’t want him writing a check to cover the bill. I’m going to make sure my taxes are paid so I don’t owe anything at the end of the year so he won’t have to send a check on my behalf.” You will be so humbled by his generosity that you want to do everything you could so he wouldn’t have to do it anymore, out of respect for him.

As Christians we can sit back and say, “God so lavishes His love that I can do whatever I want.” What an insult. Your motive should be in light of what He has done for you. I don’t want to hurt Him. I don’t want to sin against Him. I don’t want to do anything that’s going to offend Him. All the things that He bore on the cross in my place, how dare I reach back and ask, “Can I borrow that garment again? It was a lot of fun the other day.” Absolutely not. You should want nothing to do with it anymore.

I want to live my life to honor and please Christ and appease Him in every way. Not because I have to or I somehow think I can earn His favor, but out of gratitude for His generosity and His sacrifice. I want to live a life that pleases Him.

How do we respond to the cross? Think about what God has done for you. We didn’t deserve the cross. We deserve to bear the cross. We didn’t deserve Jesus taking the cross in our place. We did not deserve that, but God didn’t stop there. He continues to bless us and lavish His love upon us if we’re His children.

I looked up that great old hymn “Count Your Blessings.” In the second verse of that hymn:

• Are you ever burdened With a load of care,
  Does the cross seem heavy You are called to bear.
  Count your many blessings Every doubt will fly,
  And you will be singing As the days go by.

Count your blessings. Name them one by one. Count your blessings and see what God has done. How often do we do that? How often when we start our prayer time do we rush and say “Lord, thank you for the cross. I know I said it yesterday, but I’ll say it again today. Lord, thank you for the cross.” Then we move on. We typically just say “OK, Lord, let’s get to business. I need this, this and this.” Why don’t we say, “Lord, thank you so much for what you’ve done for me. Thank you for propitiation. Thank you for the substitutionary atonement. The rest of the world wants to chuck it out the window, but Lord I thank you for it.”

Think about every single moment of every single day. Every breath you’ve taken so far has been a gift from God. The fact that we are alive today to live for Him and to enjoy Him is a gift from Him. The fact that you have people around you who love you and care for you is a gift from God. The fact that we have a roof over our heads is a gift from God. The fact that you have food in the cupboard and refrigerator is a gift from Him.

We can be so ungrateful. Not only do we not deserve what Jesus did on the cross, we don’t deserve what He does for us every single day. Just as that friend who is so sacrificing to cover us and pay for our debts, we should be overwhelmed to humility. To think of what Jesus did on the cross and what God does for us every single day ought to overwhelm us to humility.

Often we look to Scripture at the promises God has given us and get an attitude of, “OK, Lord. You’ve promised it, now give it.” That’s like calling your friend and saying, “My electric bill is sitting here and you haven’t paid it yet. Where’s that check?” That is oftly arrogant.

My prayer for you is two things. If you have never, by faith, repented of your sins and placed your trust in Christ, that today is the day you would make things right with God through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Number two, that the cross of Jesus Christ would overwhelm you to humility and what He has done for you.

Perhaps you have heard it said, “If you’ve forgiven much, you’ll love much.” I don’t think it’s necessarily that if God doesn’t have a lot to forgive you for that you’re not going to have as much as a love for him. If all of us only realized just how much we’ve been forgiven and how much God has done despite our not deserving it. Pray that you’d be overwhelmed by His love. Overwhelmed by what He’s done for us. That we might desire to live a cross centered life, Christ centered life. One that seeks to honor and glorify Him in every possible way. Not that we’d be perfect, but we’d strive to give Him glory in all things.

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