Grosey's Messages

40. Q. Why was it necessary for Christ to humble himself even unto death?

A. Because of the justice and truth of God satisfaction for our sins could be made in no other way than by the death of the Son of God.

"It is finished"

1. The Suffering of the Cross

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,

The Sufferings               The Substitute                      The Salvation

Isa 53:4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned---every one---to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

  41. Why was He "buried?"              To testify that He was really dead.

 1 Corinthians 15:1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you---unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day

Christ's burial proved he was truly dead (John 19:38-42).

33 Kilos of Spices

Isa 53:8 that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people?

9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for guilt,

44. Q. Why is there added:  He descended into hell (the dead)?

A. In my greatest sorrows and temptations I may be assured and comforted that my Lord Jesus Christ, by his unspeakable anguish, pain, terror, and agony, which he endured throughout all his sufferings but especially on the cross, has delivered me from the anguish and torment of hell.

2. His Announced Success

being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,19 in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison,

A Victorious Announcement

2 Corinthians 2:14 But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.

Col 2:15. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.

An Authoritative Announcement

Rom 14:9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living. Rev. 1:17,18  "Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one. I died, and behold I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of Death and Hades."

Trust Him As Your Saviour

Acknowledge Him As Your Lord