Episode 12: God Has ALWAYS Loved You

The full trinity was on the cross

'For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, '

(Colossians 2:9 ESV)

'All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. '

(2 Corinthians 5:18-19)

'For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. '

(Romans 5:10)

Note-Romans 5:9 tells us the cross saves us from wrath. Some translations add wrath of God, but this is nowhere in the original Greek. We are saved from the wrath of the law. 

Psalm 22 is a victorious Psalm. When the ancients quoted the first verse of a Psalm, they were also referencing the entire Psalm. Jesus was tempted in all ways just as we were. He felt abandoned at the cross, but the next few verses show us that God delivered Jesus and rose Him from the dead. 

God did not kill Jesus

'None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. '

(1 Corinthians 2:8)

The Law demands blood

'Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins. '

(Hebrews 9:22)

'For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression. '(Romans 4:15)

Hearts Sprinkled Free

'let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. ‘ (Hebrews 10:22)

We do not shrink back

'But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.’ 

(Hebrews 10:39)

God Hates Sacrifices

'When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. ‘ (Hebrews 10:8-9)

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Jeremiah 7:21-23 ESV

Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Give ear to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah! “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the Lord; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. “When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.

Isaiah 1:10-14 ESV

' In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. '

(Psalm 40:6)