The Perfect Redemption

 

Pastor Young Joon Park

September 20, 2009

 

The meaning of the redemption

The purchase back of something that had been lost, by the payment of a ransom.

 

Acts 20:28

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.

 

Revelation 5:9

And they *sang a new song, saying,

“Worthy are You to take the book and to break its seals; for You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

 

Mark 15:33-41

33 When the sixth hour came, darkness fell over the whole land until the ninth hour.

34 At the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice,

    

Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?" which is translated as,

    

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" 

35 When some of the bystanders heard it, they began saying, "Behold, He is calling for Elijah."

36 Someone ran and filled a sponge with sour wine, put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink, saying, "Let us see whether Elijah will come to take Him down."

37 And Jesus uttered a loud cry, and breathed His last.

38 And the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

39 When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, ?u>Truly this man was the Son of God!?

40 There were also some women looking on from a distance, among whom were Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses, and Salome.

41 When He was in Galilee, they used to follow Him and minister to Him; and there were many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.

 

I. Jesus and the Cup of the Wrath of God

 

A. The worst darkness

1. When the sixth hour came,

2. darkness fell over the whole land

3. until the ninth hour.

 

Jesus was on the cross for 6 hours,

Meaning of 6 - man

First 3 hours - beginning of the wrath of God

Latter 3 hours - the final of the wrath of God

 

When Jesus was born

As we know that the angels of the Lord appeared when Jesus was born.

 

Luke 2:13

Suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God

 

Hebrews 1:6

And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says,

 

According to the Hebrews 1:6, all God’s angels were sent to Jesus and to worship Jesus.

When Jesus was born, all God’s angels were appeared, because this is so important God’s Great Plan for us in the heavenly spiritual realm and the natural realm. That’s why God sent all of His angels when Jesus Christ was born.

 

But in this time Father God Himself turn His Face away from Jesus, and I could not find any record of the angels in this dark time through the Bible.

 

Satan and his evil angels are gathering together against Jesus, demonic dark forces oppression completely cover Jesus and there was no protection for Him from the Father.

He was totally exposed to be condemned.

 

It seemed as if this moment was satan’s victory to destroy Jesus life.

Satan’s strategy is always to steal, to kill and to destroy.

 

He did steal the hearts of spiritual leaders and the Israelites and used them and Pilate to execute Jesus on the Cross, and finally satan brought all of his evil angels against Jesus for 6 hours to destroy Him.

 

Jesus was dealt with all the evil forces during these 6 hours.

All of satan’s evil forces

The spirit of rejection

The spirit of accusation

The spirit of bitterness

The mocking spirit

 

For 3 hours there was no light, but black darkness in the middle of the day.

 

This was the worst day of the human history, because God turned His Face away from Jesus as the last Adam, as a human being.

 

This was not just darkness, but Father’s Judgment and no God's Mercy at all.

Jesus received the wrath of God and the cost of sin of the world fully 100% during these 6 hours.

So there is no more other sacrifice at all. Jesus' death has redeemed us 100% about our sin once and for all.

 

He was on the Cross in the middle of the day, 9 AM to 3 PM.

 

No one knew Jesus when He was born, but His Cross was done in the public.

 

His redemption was not done in secret, but exposed to everyone because of His Redemption for the world.

 

Jesus' Cross was not done only by Israel priests, but also by Roman government.

Israelites are represented as God’s people; the Romans are the representative of the Gentiles.

 

Jesus' Cross was done both in spiritually as well as naturally.

Jesus? Cross is for Israel people and for the Gentiles, because all of them were involved for this big event of the Cross.

 

We can see what Jesus was doing while He was on the cross through Psalm 22:

 

PSALM 22

PS 22:1 My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?

Far from my deliverance are the words of my groaning.

PS 22:2 O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer;

And by night, but I have no rest.

PS 22:3 Yet You are holy, O You who are enthroned upon the praises of Israel.

PS 22:4 In You our fathers trusted; They trusted and You delivered them.

PS 22:5 To You they cried out and were delivered;

In You they trusted and were not disappointed.

PS 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man, A reproach of men and despised by the people.

PS 22:7 All who see me sneer at me;

They separate with the lip, they wag the head, saying,

PS 22:8 “Commit yourself to the LORD; let Him deliver him;

Let Him rescue him, because He delights in him.?

PS 22:9 Yet You are He who brought me forth from the womb;

You made me trust when upon my mother’s breasts.

PS 22:10 Upon You I was cast from birth; You have been my God from my mother’s womb.

PS 22:11 Be not far from me, for trouble is near; For there is none to help.

PS 22:12 Many bulls have surrounded me; Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

PS 22:13 They open wide their mouth at me, As a ravening and a roaring lion.

PS 22:14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax;

It is melted within me.

PS 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd, And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;

And You lay me in the dust of death.

PS 22:16 For dogs have surrounded me; A band of evildoers has encompassed me;

They pierced my hands and my feet.

PS 22:17 I can count all my bones. They look, they stare at me;

PS 22:18 They divide my garments among them, And for my clothing they cast lots.

PS 22:19 But You, O LORD, be not far off; O You my help, hasten to my assistance.

PS 22:20 Deliver my soul from the sword, My only life from the power of the dog.

PS 22:21 Save me from the lion’s mouth; From the horns of the wild oxen You answer me.

 

B. At the ninth hour (3 PM)

1. Jesus cried out with a loud voice,

1) Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?"

2) which is translated, My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"

 

Have you been in the hopeless situation?

You need a big help, but there is no one to ask for help. How are you going to feel?

 

He cried out His Father God, but He did not answer, and He turned His Face away from His Extreme Pain and the capital punishment for the sin of the world.

 

My mother is in hospital with very serious situation, and her situation is FULL CODE, so I made a decision NO CODE but medication treatment.

My mother is almost at the edge of her life, but she is under proper care.

Jesus, however, did not receive any bit of care from Father God Himself, because of the seriousness of the Judgment on the sin of the world.

 

Jesus called Father "My God."

He was disconnected from Father God as His Son, but He received all the wrath of God from the Judgment of God for all humans including me as the Last Adam.

All the wrath of God for the capital punishment of the world was poured out to Jesus at this moment and to put every sin to death on Jesus Body as the Lamb of God for the redemption of all.

 

God had forsaken even His Son, Jesus, because of the sin of the entire human beings.

Jesus is our Defender and the Protector.

He died for us, and He is with us, then we have everything what we need in our life.

He died for us, and He will protect us and guide us until we die.

 

Jesus was abandoned by the Father God because of yours and my sin.

This is the moment of His Crying about the abandonment from His Father God.

2. Jesus' Last Breath

1) And Jesus uttered a loud cry,

2) He breathed His last.

 

He shouted on the Cross for the victory.

"It is finished!"

Jesus came to earth to fulfill the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 5:17

Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill.

 

Jesus fulfill the Law and the Prophets is

Mark 10:45

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.

 

Jesus' total commitment

Matthew 26:42b

"My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done.

 

Jesus finished once and for all

Hebrews 10:12a, 14

12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, ¡¦

14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.

 

He shouted on the Cross for the victory.

"It is finished!" "Father, into Your Hands I commit My Spirit."

 

This was the moment to fulfill His Purpose on earth.

He did finished His Race very well and did claim His Victory in the spiritual realm and in the natural realm as well.

 

Satan thought that finally he destroyed Jesus?life and nullified all God's redemption plan.

But it was the victorious moment for the Kingdom of God and the best news for all human who did not have hope at all.

 

Satan thought himself was smart from all his hard works against Jesus, but He was not smart enough to realize the real meaning of the Jesus' Cross.

 

There is no more sacrifice again. Every sacrifice was the shadow of Jesus, and Jesus came and He finished all the law of the sacrifices.

 

No more sacrifice

Hebrews 10:18

Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.

 

From this moment our bondage of the satan was broken, and we are freed just as Barabbas was. He had a heavy shackle on his feet and chained on his hand, but suddenly all his chains were off from him, and he became a free man because of Jesus.

 

Jesus' Last Breath is the beginning of our new Life.

 

But you have to accept in your heart to believe in Him. You have to receive Jesus Christ as your Savior and have to commit to Him as your Lord.

 

3. The sign of the Temple

1) the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

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The temple was not the real thing of Heaven, but it was the shadow or example of the Heavenly Temple on earth, so God put the example of the Heaven on the earth. God will use them to manifest Himself and signs and wonders among us.

 

As soon as Jesus breathed His Last Breath on the Cross, the temple?curtain was torn down from the top to bottom that divided between Holy Place and the Holiest Place. No one besides the high priest was allowed to enter the Holiest Place, to carefully follow the Lord's instruction, otherwise the high priest is killed by God.

 

The temple has two inner places, one we called Holy Place, and the other one is the Holy Holy Place (the Holiest Place). Priests can enter the Holy Place, but not the Holy Holy Place. The high priest is the only one allowed to enter the Holiest Place.

 

(The picture of High Priest)

Before they enter the inner place the high priest and priests have to cleanse themselves with the blood of the sacrifice animal, otherwise they cannot enter this place at all.

 

Because of Jesus?Blood whoever comes to the Lord will be cleansed, thus there is no blockage between God and men.

 

But only the people who are already in the temple can come to the Holy Place and the Holy Holy place to meet the Lord in person and personally.

 

There is no limitation for the people who are in the Holy Place to go to the Holy Holy Place to have the intimate relationship with the Lord.

Every one is invited and welcomed to the Throne Room of the Lord.

 

Even it was impossible to tear the veil, because of the thickness in human view, but by the Grace of God He tore down from the top to bottom completely and welcomed everyone.

 

Jesus is the Life, the Way and the Truth.

 

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

 

Revelation 3:20 - to church

Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

 

4. the centurion's witness

1) When the centurion, who was standing right in front of Him,

2) saw the way He breathed His last,

3) he said, "Truly this man was the Son of God!"

 

Many people were there watching Jesus on the Cross at Golgotha, but not all of them had the revelation.

The Gentile who did not know God had a revelation that Jesus was the Son of God.

He is the only one who received the revelation to know who Jesus was and confessed who Jesus was. I believe that he came to the Lord even if there is no mention about his faith in the Bible.

 

There were so many people there, but all of them did not have any revelation from the Lord nor understood who Jesus was for them.

 

This centurion saw the all Jesus life on the cross and the signs, and he did not ignore anything, but paid his attention to every signs to understand and realize who Jesus was.

 

We need to pay attention to every sign and capture our mind and to receive Lord? Revelation and understand the spiritual meaning and the revelation.

 

Many times we ignored the signs, or we do too much of analysis in our brain in rationalism way. God wants us to have a simple heart in front of the Lord.

 

5. Other witnesses

1) There were also some women looking on from a distance,

  a) Mary Magdalene,

  b) Mary the mother of James the Less and Joses,

  c) and Salome.

    d) When He was in Galilee, they used to follow Him and minister to Him;

  2) there were many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.

  3) all the crowds Luke 23:48)

And all the crowds who came together for this spectacle, when they observed what had happened, began to return, beating their breasts.

 

These women knew Jesus and believed in Him, and they are the true followers of Jesus.

Even as women they followed Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem until He died on the Cross as His witnesses.

I have to follow Jesus with simple mind like these women.

I need to give the special care for the godly women among us.

They do not care who they are, but they care who Jesus is in their life.

 

Conclusion

 

We need to realize that how much God loved us.

God even gave up His Son Jesus for you and me.

We cannot find any place in the Bible that God sent Jesus for the fallen angels, but He sent Jesus for you and me only.

 

It means that God put the highest value in us than in the angel, and God never gave any chance to restore the fallen angels.

Our Father did give up His Son Jesus for us, and He also sent Him to restore us with His Life and Blood.

 

Psalm 8:5

Yet You have made him a little lower than God,

And You crown him with glory and majesty!

 

Him - man or son of man

 

This word said that God has made man a little lower than God. This means that man could be above the angel or at the same level with angel. One thing I understand is that man was not created lower than angel at all, because we were not compared against angels but God in this word,.

 

This word was written before Jesus Christ's redemption.

 

We are different than first Adam, because we are Jesus as the Last Adam's descendant in His Blood.

We are Jesus?blood value.

 

This was proved by Jesus Himself through

Acts 9:4-5

4 and he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me??

5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord??And He said, “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting,

 

Jesus said that “why are you persecuting Me,?also “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.?/span>

Jesus does not treat us as one of His angels, but Himself as His highest value.

We can do anything what Jesus did. So do not fear the devil, and stand up against and destroy them. Are you depressed? Let's break it as who you are in Jesus.

 

Here is the Great Promise of Jesus for you

John 14:12

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.

 

We are here to represent Jesus to the world, and we are here doing Jesus?work.

 

Let's be a real Christian. We do not need to play any more Christians roles.

You are the real God's value than any other angels.

 

Please do not misunderstand what I am saying. I am not saying that we are a lot better than angels.

 

I am talking about our value in God's Heart. We are bought by His Son Jesus? Blood.?God put us in His highest value.

 

The angel's role for us

1. Servant to ministry us (Heb 1:14) - Jesus on the Gethsemane

 

Hebrews 1:14

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent out to render service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

 

2. Guardian (Matthew 18:10)

 

Matthew 18:10

See that you do not despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father who is in heaven.

 

3. God's messenger (Heb 2:2) ?Michael to Daniel, Gabriel to Mary

 

Hebrews 2:2

For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every transgression and disobedience received a just penalty,

 

We should not worship the angels because the angels from the Lord are for us.

 

The day of The Last Breath of Jesus

This is the day of victory of the Lord and the biggest celebration for all God's children and for all human beings.

 

Let's follow Jesus with full heart!

Luke 9:23

And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me.?/span>