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1 | Christ's Descent... | Eph 4:10 | DocTrinsograce | 241511 | ||
"Throughout the course of church history, many people have taught that Jesus' spirit descended into hell after His death on the cross. Basing this idea on Ephesians 4:8–10 and 1 Peter 3:18–20, most of those who have taught that Jesus' spirit went to hell after His death have said that He went there to proclaim judgment to sinners and/or rescue the saints of the Old Testament. Today, many in the heretical Word of Faith movement teach that the crucifixion was insufficient to atone for our sins and that Jesus also had to suffer three days of torment in hell. "Faithfulness to all of Scripture, however, requires us to deny that Jesus' spirit went to hell after He died. First, Jesus told the repentant thief on the cross that he would be with Christ in Paradise on the same day of their crucifixion (Luke 23:39– 43). Second, nothing in Ephesians 4:8–10 says Jesus descended into hell; Paul means only that Christ descended into the grave. Third, 1 Peter 3:18–20 likely refers to the Son of God preaching by the Holy Spirit through Noah to the people of Noah's day. Finally, Jesus finished His atoning work on the cross. The New Testament speaks of propitiation, the turning away of the Lord's wrath, only in relation to Jesus shedding His blood on the cross (Romans 3:25; Hebrews 2:17; 9:1–10:18; 1 John 2:2; 4:10; 5:6–11). Moreover, our Savior's last words on the cross were 'It is finished' (John 19:30). He saw His work as completed when He died. "Jesus' spirit never went to hell, but on the cross He suffered the full wrath of God that is poured out in hell. True, the scourgings of the guards, the nails in Christ's hands, and the other physical pains Jesus suffered manifested God's wrath. Nevertheless, the most intense suffering Christ experienced was spiritual in nature, the hopelessness of losing the gaze of His Father's blessing and the torment of experiencing God's wrath for the sins of His people (Mark 15:34). John Calvin comments, 'After explaining what Christ endured in the sight of man, the Creed appropriately adds the invisible and incomprehensible judgment which He endured before God, to teach us that not only was the body of Christ given up as the price of redemption, but that there was a greater and more excellent price -- that He bore in His soul the tortures of a condemned and ruined man' (Institutes 2.16.10). "Sin against an infinite being demands an infinite punishment in hell. In a few hours, Jesus suffered and exhausted the infinite punishment that impenitent people cannot exhaust even after an eternity in hell. He could do this because, in His deity as the Son of God, He is an infinite being. This is a great mystery, but as the Heidelberg Catechism states, it does assure us that we are fully delivered from the anguish and torment of hell in Christ (Q and A 44)." --R. C. Sproul http://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/christs-descent-into-hell/ |
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2 | Christ's Descent... | Eph 4:10 | jeremiah1five | 241512 | ||
Let's not forget the lesson in the story of the Lazarus and the rich man. Luke 16:30-31 (KJV) 30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. They and we have the Scriptures. When Jesus died they had the Hebrew Scriptures and no one, according to Jesus, will be persuaded if one rose from the dead. Today, this rings true...Jesus rose from the dead and no one is persuaded. This, incidentally, is why it requires God to make the first move upon an individual for as Jesus said in John 3:19-20 John 3:19-20 (KJV) 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. Because of the BONDAGE of sin upon a person this prevents them from choosing the good as Christ said, "neither cometh to Him [the Light], because men love darkness RATHER THAN light, they NEITHER COME TO HIM." We must take these words of Christ as written else we call Him a liar if we refuse to believe His Word. |
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