100:00:01,000 –> 00:00:09,620You could read through Mark’s Gospel in chapter 15 and see nothing more here than the terrible200:00:09,620 –> 00:00:15,800suffering of an innocent man. But when you know the Bible’s explanation, when you know300:00:15,800 –> 00:00:22,139what was really happening here, you pick up in the eye-witness accounts things that have400:00:22,139 –> 00:00:29,400significance you did not realize before. Welcome to Open The Bible with Pastor Colin Smith.500:00:30,100 –> 00:00:34,500I’m glad you could be with us today. And Colin, as we continue to look at the suffering of600:00:34,500 –> 00:00:39,020Jesus, there may be many who will say, well, this is about someone who was nailed to a700:00:39,020 –> 00:00:43,560cross 2,000 years ago. But how is that relevant to me today?800:00:43,560 –> 00:00:48,419And that’s exactly the question, isn’t it? What difference does this make to my life900:00:48,419 –> 00:00:51,580today? Here’s Jesus’s suffering. I’ve heard about that, I know1000:00:51,580 –> 00:00:56,759something about that. How does this impact me? The great things is that the New Testament1100:00:56,779 –> 00:01:02,500actually gives us the answer to that question. It describes the death of Jesus in all of1200:01:02,500 –> 00:01:08,220its horror, but it tells us why. And once we see why, then we begin to see1300:01:08,220 –> 00:01:12,500what that means for me today. We’re going to answer the why question in1400:01:12,500 –> 00:01:15,720today’s message. So, let’s not wait any longer, let’s dive1500:01:15,720 –> 00:01:20,540into Mark chapter 15. As we begin the message, Jesus suffered under1600:01:20,540 –> 00:01:23,540the judgment of God. Here’s Colin.1700:01:23,620 –> 00:01:26,580So, we’ve arrived at the beginning of Holy Week.1800:01:26,580 –> 00:01:32,839Mark devotes no less than six chapters of his gospel, chapter 11 through to chapter1900:01:32,839 –> 00:01:38,22016, is all a description of the events of Holy Week, and as we’ve been studying that2000:01:38,220 –> 00:01:42,540since the beginning of the year, I think it would be good for us as we move through this2100:01:42,540 –> 00:01:48,360week, beginning from today, for us to remember well the events that took place that we’ve2200:01:48,639 –> 00:01:49,919the gospel.2300:01:49,919 –> 00:01:55,300Sunday, the Lord Jesus Christ comes into Jerusalem riding on a donkey.2400:01:55,300 –> 00:02:01,660Monday, he goes into the temple and he clears out the money-changers opening up the court2500:02:01,660 –> 00:02:07,779of the Gentiles so that people from all nations can worship the living God.2600:02:07,779 –> 00:02:14,020Tuesday, questions and answers, debates in the temple, and at the end of Tuesday, Jesus2700:02:14,399 –> 00:02:20,460teaches his disciples, on the top of the Mount of Olives, the glorious hope of his return,2800:02:20,460 –> 00:02:24,559the great day when Jesus will come in power and in glory.2900:02:24,559 –> 00:02:27,399Wednesday, nothing recorded that we know of.3000:02:27,399 –> 00:02:33,380We must assume, in the silence of Scripture, that Wednesday was used as a day of rest,3100:02:33,380 –> 00:02:40,020in which our Lord Jesus Christ prepared for the terrible ordeal that was to come.3200:02:40,139 –> 00:02:47,479Thursday, the day of the Last Supper, the day of the Garden of Gethsemane and the night3300:02:47,479 –> 00:02:51,320of his arrest, and the beginning of his sufferings.3400:02:51,320 –> 00:02:57,160We’ve seen that the suffering of the Lord Jesus comes in three very distinct phases,3500:02:57,160 –> 00:02:59,479as it were, or stages.3600:02:59,479 –> 00:03:02,899His suffering begins at the hands of his friends.3700:03:02,899 –> 00:03:07,179Judas betrays him, Peter denies him, all of the disciples forsake him.3800:03:07,179 –> 00:03:08,179They run away.3900:03:08,179 –> 00:03:09,979Fear gets the better of faith.4000:03:09,979 –> 00:03:12,320It begins at the hands of his friends.4100:03:12,320 –> 00:03:17,020It intensifies, as we saw last time, at the hands of his enemies.4200:03:17,020 –> 00:03:20,899Jesus was bound, he was falsely accused.4300:03:20,899 –> 00:03:26,660He was flogged, and then he was ridiculed.4400:03:26,660 –> 00:03:31,979So we’ve looked at these first two stages of the sufferings of the Lord Jesus, as Mark4500:03:31,979 –> 00:03:36,059describes them, at the hands of his friends.4600:03:36,059 –> 00:03:39,559It begins at the hands of his enemies.4700:03:39,559 –> 00:03:42,300It intensifies.4800:03:42,300 –> 00:03:47,500Now today as we come to Mark’s Gospel and chapter 15, we’re going to look at the deepest4900:03:47,500 –> 00:03:50,899levels of the suffering of our Lord Jesus Christ.5000:03:50,899 –> 00:03:59,539And our title today is that Jesus suffered under the judgment of God.5100:03:59,539 –> 00:04:05,639Now it’s good for us to grasp that the New Testament gives us both a description and5200:04:05,779 –> 00:04:11,119an explanation of the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.5300:04:11,119 –> 00:04:15,820Let’s just look through the description as we have it here in Mark chapter 15.5400:04:15,820 –> 00:04:21,820If you had been there you would have seen precisely what Mark records.5500:04:21,820 –> 00:04:26,540Verse 24, the soldiers divided Jesus’ clothing by lots.5600:04:26,540 –> 00:04:28,959If you’d been there you would have seen them do that.5700:04:28,959 –> 00:04:30,540In verse 26.5800:04:30,540 –> 00:04:34,880If you’d been there you would have seen the notice that was fixed above Jesus’ head on5900:04:35,059 –> 00:04:39,019the cross saying that he is the King of the Jews.6000:04:39,019 –> 00:04:43,720If you’d been there, verse 27, you would have seen two robbers who were crucified on either6100:04:43,720 –> 00:04:50,779side of him, reminding us that crucifixion was not unusual during the days of the Roman6200:04:50,779 –> 00:04:51,940Empire.6300:04:51,940 –> 00:04:57,239It was their ultimate means of preserving public order.6400:04:57,239 –> 00:05:01,959If you had been there, verse 29, you would have heard people shouting insults at Jesus6500:05:02,200 –> 00:05:06,619As they walked by on the road beside the cross.6600:05:06,619 –> 00:05:12,720And you would have experienced if you had been there the eerie darkness that came over6700:05:12,720 –> 00:05:20,399the whole land at noon, that is, the sixth hour which is midday, verse 33.6800:05:20,399 –> 00:05:25,519Three hours later if you had been there you would have heard Jesus cry out with a loud6900:05:25,519 –> 00:05:26,519voice.7000:05:26,519 –> 00:05:29,799Notice the vividness of the direct witness description.7100:05:29,799 –> 00:05:31,059He cried out with a loud voice.7200:05:31,579 –> 00:05:37,420Eloi, eloi lama sabachthani, which means my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?7300:05:37,420 –> 00:05:42,100And if you’d been there a short time later you would have heard again Jesus make a loud7400:05:42,100 –> 00:05:48,619cry as he took verse 37 his last breath, and he died.7500:05:48,619 –> 00:05:56,000Now that’s what happened and that’s what the folks there heard and saw, and if you had7600:05:56,000 –> 00:06:00,260been there on that day, on that Good Friday when Jesus was crucified.7700:06:00,260 –> 00:06:05,779That is what you would have heard and that is what you would have seen.7800:06:05,779 –> 00:06:08,420That’s the description.7900:06:08,420 –> 00:06:11,420But what does it mean?8000:06:11,420 –> 00:06:14,279What does it have to do with us today?8100:06:14,279 –> 00:06:21,079Now, you see, that is why it’s important that alongside the description the Bible also gives8200:06:21,079 –> 00:06:24,519us an explanation of the cross.8300:06:24,519 –> 00:06:29,700These two are important and we have to keep these two together.8400:06:30,140 –> 00:06:35,179God tells us what the cross means and he tells us again and again in the Bible.8500:06:35,179 –> 00:06:42,000I want to give just seven examples of scripture where God clearly reveals8600:06:42,000 –> 00:06:48,739what he was doing at the cross, what was taking place in these great events.8700:06:48,739 –> 00:06:51,339You may like to note these down for future reference.8800:06:51,339 –> 00:06:53,920I’m going to move through them very quickly.8900:06:53,920 –> 00:06:57,980First, 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 3.9000:06:58,399 –> 00:07:00,179Here’s what was happening at the cross.9100:07:00,179 –> 00:07:07,320Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.9200:07:07,320 –> 00:07:12,519Now, understand this is something that could only have been revealed by God.9300:07:12,519 –> 00:07:17,079If you had walked past Calvary on the day when Jesus was fixed to the cross,9400:07:17,079 –> 00:07:22,000you would have no way of knowing that this man was dying for our sins.9500:07:22,119 –> 00:07:28,100You would not have known that unless God had told you and yet this is what God has revealed9600:07:28,100 –> 00:07:34,119in his explanation of the cross that is given to us again and again in the Scriptures.9700:07:34,119 –> 00:07:35,480What was happening there?9800:07:35,480 –> 00:07:37,600Christ died for our sins.9900:07:37,600 –> 00:07:38,959That’s the explanation.10000:07:38,959 –> 00:07:43,959Second, 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 24.10100:07:44,000 –> 00:07:52,480Jesus himself, he himself bore our sins in his body on the tree.10200:07:52,500 –> 00:07:57,200Now you see what the New Testament is telling us, what God is telling us here.10300:07:57,200 –> 00:08:01,559Our sins were transferred to Jesus.10400:08:01,559 –> 00:08:08,519He bore them, notice the language, they were imputed to him.10500:08:08,540 –> 00:08:15,160To put that another way they were counted, your sins were counted as if they were his.10600:08:15,160 –> 00:08:18,779The Old Testament has a vivid picture that helps us to understand this.10700:08:18,779 –> 00:08:25,440Leviticus chapter 16, the day of atonement, the high priest was to say a prayer of confession.10800:08:25,440 –> 00:08:30,440Confessing the sins of the Israelites while he held on to a goat’s head.10900:08:30,440 –> 00:08:36,260And the Lord says in Leviticus chapter 16 in verse 22, that in this prayer there was11000:08:36,260 –> 00:08:43,380to be a transfer of guilt that the high priest was to put the sins of the people on the goat’s11100:08:43,380 –> 00:08:44,380head.11200:08:44,380 –> 00:08:48,719And then the goat was to be taken through the camp and out of sight beyond the range11300:08:48,719 –> 00:08:51,080of the people of Israel.11400:08:51,080 –> 00:08:56,500In other words, guilt was in some way going to be transferred onto another.11500:08:56,500 –> 00:09:02,599And in 1Peter 2 and verse 24, God is telling us that this is what happened when Jesus died.11600:09:03,320 –> 00:09:08,820He bore our sins Himself in His body on the tree.11700:09:08,820 –> 00:09:12,140That is, on the cross, the wood to which He was fixed.11800:09:12,140 –> 00:09:22,280Number three, II Corinthians 5 verse 21, God made Him, that is Jesus, who had no sin, to11900:09:22,280 –> 00:09:29,440be sin for us so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.12000:09:29,900 –> 00:09:33,960Now, again, notice what God is telling us about His own action.12100:09:33,960 –> 00:09:35,520God is doing this.12200:09:35,520 –> 00:09:36,640God is active.12300:09:36,640 –> 00:09:38,280God is taking the initiative.12400:09:38,280 –> 00:09:44,919God made Him, Jesus who had no sin, to be sin for us.12500:09:44,919 –> 00:09:46,039This is explanation.12600:09:46,039 –> 00:09:51,739This is saying, when you read about the cross, this is what I, God, was doing.12700:09:51,979 –> 00:10:01,179I was making Jesus, who had no sin, to be sin for you, and you need to understand that.12800:10:01,179 –> 00:10:06,479The same thing is stated and taught in the Old Testament, Isaiah chapter 53 and verse12900:10:06,479 –> 00:10:07,5206.13000:10:08,299 –> 00:10:14,640The Lord has laid on him the iniquities of us all.13100:10:14,640 –> 00:10:16,559Again, notice the language.13200:10:16,559 –> 00:10:26,239Here is Almighty God taking the initiative to move human guilt onto one who will be a13300:10:26,239 –> 00:10:31,479sacrifice to move iniquity onto another person.13400:10:31,479 –> 00:10:37,440And when Christ bears our sin, the language of 1 Peter, when our iniquity, the language13500:10:37,440 –> 00:10:44,619of Isaiah is laid on him, inevitably what this means is that the transfer of guilt must13600:10:44,619 –> 00:10:50,619bring with it a transfer of punishment, culpability.13700:10:50,619 –> 00:10:52,280And Isaiah teaches this also.13800:10:52,280 –> 00:10:54,960Here is our fifth quotation from the scripture.13900:10:54,960 –> 00:10:59,500He was pierced for our transgressions.14000:10:59,500 –> 00:11:03,320He was crushed for our iniquities.14100:11:03,320 –> 00:11:10,320The punishment, notice that word, that brought us peace was upon him.14200:11:10,320 –> 00:11:14,479So again God is explaining in the scriptures what happened at the cross.14300:11:14,479 –> 00:11:20,380And here it is, Jesus endured the punishment that rightly belonged to us.14400:11:20,380 –> 00:11:21,799He endured it on the cross.14500:11:21,799 –> 00:11:27,280That is where he was pierced and his enduring of our punishment is the thing that brings14600:11:27,299 –> 00:11:30,320us peace with God.14700:11:30,320 –> 00:11:37,320That is why our title today for the sermon is that Jesus suffered under the judgment14800:11:38,820 –> 00:11:40,679of God.14900:11:40,679 –> 00:11:46,320Because the Bible makes it clear that this is precisely what was happening at the cross.15000:11:46,320 –> 00:11:51,500You say, well, did Jesus ever speak about this himself?15100:11:51,500 –> 00:11:52,979Yes, he did.15200:11:52,979 –> 00:11:57,440We’ve already seen it in Mark chapter 10 and verse 45.15300:11:57,440 –> 00:12:03,260The Son of Man did not come into the world to be served, but he came to serve, and he15400:12:03,260 –> 00:12:10,260came to give his life as a ransom for many, and we saw already that the ransom meant paying15500:12:11,260 –> 00:12:13,059a price.15600:12:13,059 –> 00:12:19,500That in his death, the Lord Jesus Christ paid a price in order to set us free.15700:12:19,500 –> 00:12:20,460Free from what?15800:12:20,979 –> 00:12:27,979Free from the awful judgment of God that was coming to us on account of our sins.15900:12:29,020 –> 00:12:33,799And here’s number 7, Romans chapter 3 and verse 25.16000:12:33,799 –> 00:12:40,799God presented him, that is Jesus, as a sacrifice of atonement through faith in his blood.16100:12:41,659 –> 00:12:48,659Now remember the Old Testament, in the Old Testament God had given a system of sacrifices16200:12:48,659 –> 00:12:52,460that were offered by the priests on behalf of the people.16300:12:52,460 –> 00:12:59,239The sacrificed animal died in place of the people to whom God had made his promise.16400:12:59,239 –> 00:13:04,739And the whole point of this was really to set up a way of understanding what would happen16500:13:04,739 –> 00:13:09,719when Jesus went to the cross and gave his life for us.16600:13:09,719 –> 00:13:16,739What was happening was this, God was presenting him as the sacrifice, making atonement, that16700:13:16,880 –> 00:13:22,080is making peace between man and God through his blood, and notice how this atonement,16800:13:22,080 –> 00:13:31,039this sacrifice becomes effective for you or for me, it is through faith in his blood,16900:13:31,039 –> 00:13:38,140that the sacrifice he made two thousand years ago becomes effective in regard to your life,17000:13:38,140 –> 00:13:42,000effective in covering your sin today.17100:13:42,000 –> 00:13:45,840You’re listening to Open the Bible with Pastor Colin Smith and we’ve got to pause our message17200:13:45,840 –> 00:13:47,520right there for just a moment.17300:13:47,520 –> 00:13:50,280Jesus suffered under the judgment of God.17400:13:50,280 –> 00:13:56,020It’s part of our series, The Gospel According to Jesus, a deep dive into the Gospel of Mark.17500:13:56,020 –> 00:13:59,880And if you’ve missed any of the series so far, you can always catch up or go back and17600:13:59,880 –> 00:14:01,599listen again on line.17700:14:01,599 –> 00:14:07,280Come to our website openthebible.org.uk and there you’ll find all the messages which have17800:14:07,280 –> 00:14:09,500already gone out on air.17900:14:09,500 –> 00:14:12,500Back to the message now, here’s Colin.18000:14:12,500 –> 00:14:18,619So very simply from the scripture I’ve wanted to demonstrate as we begin Holy Week that18100:14:18,619 –> 00:14:26,200God has given us not only a description of the cross, but he has also given us an explanation18200:14:26,200 –> 00:14:28,159of the cross.18300:14:28,159 –> 00:14:33,099And that explanation is consistent, it’s in the teaching of Jesus, it’s in the Old Testament,18400:14:33,099 –> 00:14:36,359it’s in the New Testament, it’s in Peter, and Its in Paul.18500:14:36,619 –> 00:14:45,719It is that Christ bore our sin, that he took our punishment, that he died our death, that18600:14:45,719 –> 00:14:49,440he became the sacrifice for our sins.18700:14:49,440 –> 00:14:55,099The explanation for what is going on at the cross is that Jesus suffered under the judgment18800:14:55,099 –> 00:14:56,700of God.18900:14:56,700 –> 00:15:04,500He put it another way, endured all the dimensions of hell on the cross for us and he did this19000:15:04,679 –> 00:15:17,619because he is our sin bearer, he is our substitute, he is our sacrifice and he is our Savior.19100:15:17,619 –> 00:15:28,619Now you need to know that there are a growing number of teachers in the church today who19200:15:28,619 –> 00:15:39,080deny these most precious truths. These folks think that it is unworthy to speak about God’s19300:15:39,080 –> 00:15:47,719wrath or about his judgement. And of course if you don’t believe that there is any wrath19400:15:47,719 –> 00:15:53,760or judgement from God on account of human sin, if you don’t believe that, then of19500:15:54,080 –> 00:16:01,080course there is no reason to think that Jesus should have endured these things on the cross.19600:16:01,080 –> 00:16:07,799But I want us as a congregation at the beginning of this Holy Week to see and to understand19700:16:07,799 –> 00:16:18,679beyond all question that the substitutionary atonement, that is Christ bearing our sin,19800:16:18,679 –> 00:16:24,919taking our place under the judgment of God, offering himself as our sacrifice, becoming19900:16:24,919 –> 00:16:32,359our substitute in the judgment of God, that this is clearly taught in the Bible and that20000:16:32,359 –> 00:16:40,140it is the center of Christ’s glorious accomplishment for us on the cross.20100:16:40,140 –> 00:16:45,599Now you say okay, I hear what you say.20200:16:45,599 –> 00:16:47,640There’s description and there’s explanation.20300:16:47,640 –> 00:16:52,179You’ve brought in explanation from all over the Bible.20400:16:52,179 –> 00:17:00,200But is there any evidence of the substitutionary atonement in Mark chapter 15?20500:17:00,200 –> 00:17:07,500I want to say to you yes there is, and that is precisely what I want us to see today so20600:17:08,380 –> 00:17:15,500that we will bathe ourselves in the deepest and greatest truths of the20700:17:15,500 –> 00:17:23,459gospel. I expect a good number of us enjoy to read now and again a detective20800:17:23,459 –> 00:17:27,140novel you like a detective novel you like to watch a good murder mystery now20900:17:27,140 –> 00:17:32,579and again and you know what the formula for these things is you watch a good21000:17:32,579 –> 00:17:37,760murder mystery right upfront in the different I witness accounts that are21100:17:37,760 –> 00:17:41,640all the clues you know why did the light go off when she came into the room and21200:17:41,640 –> 00:17:45,400why was the bicycle outside the shed when it would normally have been inside21300:17:45,400 –> 00:17:48,180and so forth and all these things if you’re like me they kind of blow past21400:17:48,180 –> 00:17:54,339you until eventually you find the explanation or Poirot or Miss Marple or21500:17:54,339 –> 00:18:00,500whoever it is works it all out use ah they’re you see and then if you read the21600:18:00,760 –> 00:18:05,199again or if you watch the film again there’s a certain pleasure in saying21700:18:05,199 –> 00:18:10,560well I know how this one ends and so when you know the explanation you then21800:18:10,560 –> 00:18:15,579see all kinds of things in the description and the eyewitness accounts21900:18:15,579 –> 00:18:19,000and so forth that you never saw before you’re familiar with this aren’t you and22000:18:19,000 –> 00:18:23,319some of us have watched a detective mystery more than once and gained much22100:18:23,319 –> 00:18:29,400greater pleasure the second time around now it’s rather like that with the story22200:18:29,400 –> 00:18:34,880of the cross you could read through Mark’s gospel and chapter 15 and see22300:18:34,880 –> 00:18:41,099nothing more here than the terrible suffering of an innocent man and some of22400:18:41,099 –> 00:18:45,079us that’s been what we’ve done you know at Easter we come to church and we’ve22500:18:45,079 –> 00:18:49,839seen that and that’s what we’ve understood but when you know the Bible’s22600:18:49,839 –> 00:18:54,599explanation when you know what was really happening here then when you come22700:18:54,599 –> 00:18:58,859back to Mark and chapter 15 and you read the story again you pick up in the22800:18:58,859 –> 00:19:04,800eyewitness accounts things that have significance you did not realize before22900:19:04,800 –> 00:19:12,439and you say ah now I see that that was really important never knew that before23000:19:12,439 –> 00:19:17,920now that’s what I want us to do today having looked at the explanation we now23100:19:17,920 –> 00:19:21,819come back to the description so that we will see the significance of things that23200:19:21,819 –> 00:19:26,680otherwise we would have missed and that is a perfectly valid way to approach the23300:19:26,979 –> 00:19:31,219study of the scriptures which is one word and one revelation that comes from23400:19:31,219 –> 00:19:36,339God we do it all the time with murder mystery so let’s come back to Mark and23500:19:36,339 –> 00:19:42,140chapter 15 and look at the story again to see what Jesus accomplished we’re23600:19:42,140 –> 00:19:47,780going to pick it up at verse 22 they brought Jesus to the place called Golgotha23700:19:47,780 –> 00:19:54,420which means the place of the skull and then they offered him wine mixed23800:19:54,420 –> 00:20:05,099with myrrh but he did not take it now the wine mixed with myth had the effect23900:20:05,099 –> 00:20:12,619of a mild sedative crucifixion of course was so barbaric and the pain involved so24000:20:12,619 –> 00:20:17,900horrific that at least according to tradition some relief was offered to the24100:20:18,900 –> 00:20:24,959just before he was nailed to the cross and Mark records that this was precisely24200:20:24,959 –> 00:20:31,040what happened in the case of Jesus we don’t know who offered this drink to24300:20:31,040 –> 00:20:37,119Jesus most likely it was the women who followed him all the way to the cross24400:20:37,119 –> 00:20:45,579but here in this primitive sedative drink there was at least the possibility24500:20:46,339 –> 00:20:54,020of some relief from the awful pain that Christ was about to endure he had the24600:20:54,020 –> 00:21:00,180opportunity here for at least some dulling of his senses as he faced the24700:21:00,180 –> 00:21:05,979ultimate horror of crucifixion the pain of course of crucifixion is so24800:21:05,979 –> 00:21:12,099awful that it underlies our English word that we still use have you thought about24900:21:12,099 –> 00:21:19,199this the word excruciating now where does that word come from ex cruciating25000:21:19,199 –> 00:21:29,079pain that comes out of the cross ex crus out of the cross excruciating and anyone25100:21:29,079 –> 00:21:35,839who had any compassion at all would see at this point as Jesus comes to be25200:21:35,839 –> 00:21:41,699nailed to the cross, Drink, take this small opportunity of relief25300:21:41,699 –> 00:21:46,920let the sedative at least in some limited degree dull your mind to the25400:21:46,920 –> 00:21:50,680nailing and the searing pain that is about to come upon your body and I want25500:21:50,680 –> 00:21:56,280you to notice what Mark says they offered him wine mixed with mir but he25600:21:56,280 –> 00:22:06,780did not take it that tells us that our Lord Jesus Christ was fully conscious25700:22:06,780 –> 00:22:14,359throughout his suffering. No sedation. But when you understand the New Testament25800:22:14,359 –> 00:22:18,359teaching about what was happening on the cross you’ll understand why Christ25900:22:18,359 –> 00:22:23,520could not have taken any sedative because he’s not only there to save he26000:22:23,579 –> 00:22:32,400is there to suffer. He is enduring all the dimensions of hell on the cross and26100:22:32,400 –> 00:22:44,160hell is conscious punishment. And he really took the punishment. The26200:22:44,160 –> 00:22:51,839punishment that was due to you and the punishment that was due to me. And we’ll26300:22:51,839 –> 00:22:56,260continue to look at what God was doing when Jesus was on the cross in the next26400:22:56,260 –> 00:23:01,439part of our message Jesus suffered under the judgment of God. 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