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words were the shrinking of His flesh. But He quickly added, “Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.” Even these words, it seems to us, referred only to the possibility that His physical man might succumb to the awful strain that was upon Him before He was ac tually crucified. 2. All the glories future, the added glories which were to be gained by our Lord through His sufferings, were at stake. Had Christ not died, He never could have entered into His present high priestly work in behalf of sinners. He is even now at the right hand of the Father in behalf of those who trust
aa It Is written.” The Lord made a partial belief in the prophets a solemn wrong. And in speaking thus to these two, He laid all their sadness, all of their misgivings, and their lack of com- prehepsion to the fact that they believed not all that the prophets had written. Christ’s Sufferings and Glory The a b s o l u t e reasonableness of Christ’s sufferings became the next subject of His discussion with these dis ciples. “ Ought not Christ to have suf fered these things . . . ?” (v. 26). The cross is shown to be necessary to sal vation. There was no other way by which we could be saved. Had the Lord not suffered, the sin question would never have been settled. The cross was also necessary to duty. The words “ought not” speak in the realm of duty. Christ was suggesting that His death on the cross was an obligation which could not be shunned, in spite of its tremendous cost and sacrifice. The cross was also necessary to Christ’s glory. Apart from dying, He could not have entered into His glory. The word “glory” seemed to suggest that in dying He anticipated our new birth, our redemption and all that it meant. He saw us saved and singing His praises. The Lord Jesus was sug gesting the eternal plight in which men would have been had He not died. Peter had said once, in effect, “Pity Thyself, Lord.” Had He done that and spared Himself the agony of suffering, He would not have entered into His glory; neither would we evér share His glory. Even the Old Testament saints in the four thousand years before the cross would have been lost had He not died. He had to die in answer to their faith as well as in answer to the eternal purposes and promises of God. I. All the glories past which belonged to our Lord were at stake. You remem ber how Christ on the eve of His cruci fixion said, "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was” (John 17:5). How could Christ have entered once again into those glories which from the beginning were His if He had refused the Father’s will and rejected the Father’s plan- and left us unredeemed? When God created man He knew that man would fall from his high estate and that it would be necessary for Calvary to ensue in order that man might be saved. God knew it, and Christ knew it, for Christ and the Father and the Holy Spirit wrought together in per fect unity in all things. But Christ never hesitatedJto die! He did not for one moment consider any side-sSepping of Calvary. He did cry, “If it be possible, let this cup pass . . (Matt. 26:39). Perhaps these
in Him. In addition to this glory of high priesthood, there was the added glory of being made Head of the church which is the “fulness of him that filleth all in all” (Eph. 1:23). Besides this, there is the coming glory of His millen nial kingdom. All of these things are based upon the accomplished fact of Calvary.
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