“HE BORE OUR SINS”

Could it be said that when Messiah “carries up our sins in his body onto the pole” (1 Peter 2:24; cf. Heb. 9:28), what he in effect absorbed into his own flesh was all that our sins had deprived him of as the one to whom we owed sinless obedience—our Maker and Master? In other words, was he not experiencing total loss of his own rightful sovereignty, authority, power, lordship, reputation, throne, glory, honor, and might? For these are what belonged to him as flawlessly obedient Son of God and son of mankind and son of David! He had a divine right (if anyone ever had!) to inherit and exert these over the works of his Father’s hands. All should have been subordinated underneath his feet and swayed to his scepter!

Is it fair to say that in his willingly giving up or surrendering all these that were rightfully his possession and property, and which we his proper subjects owed him but refused to pay him, crucifying him instead—that in doing this, he bore our sins instead of bearing our praise, worship, thanksgiving, blessing, glory, honor, etc., and equally bore the loss of his inheritance of his rightful kingdom, i.e., sovereignty, authority, power, lordship, might, throne, strength, wealth, wisdom, reputation, thanks, blessing, etc., anent the house of Israel? Is all this what it really meant for him to “bear our sins” on the cross? If so, then that wooden cross was the absolute antipode, antithesis, and diametric opposite of the throne of glory that ought to have been his at that moment instead.

Therefore, He to whom he “gave it over,” “who is judging justly” (1 Peter 2:23) “highly exalted him and favored him with THE NAME THAT IS ABOVE EVERY NAME/REPUTATION, that in the name of Jesus every knee should be bowing, celestial and terrestrial and subterranean, and every tongue should be acclaiming that Jesus Messiah is Master, for the glory of God the Father”! (Phil. 2:9-11)

THUS GOD HIMSELF PROVIDED COVERAGE CONCERNING OUR SINS! AND MESSIAH WAS THE INSURANCE POLICY OR SURETY THAT PAID UP TO US (“THE PARTY OF THE SECOND PART”) WHEN HE BECAME THE COVENANT VICTIM TO OUR INJUSTICE! WHAT A POLICY! Messiah in this way took responsibility for our misdeeds, and by God’s super-excessive repayment to him for what we did to him, he received enough wealth (etc.!) in superfluity, in turn, to enrich us, his enemies! That’s love and pardon…THAT’S GRACIOUSNESS BEYOND MEASURE AND BEYOND DESERTS! That merciful exhibit, that kindness, that longsuffering, is calculated to CONCILIATE ENEMIES, WIN FRIENDS, AND (okay…) “INFLUENCE PEOPLE”! [4/18/06; 11/16/25]