13 - The High Cost Of Jesus

THE HIGH COST OF JESUS By: Jorge Villavicencio

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THE HIGH COST OF JESUS By: Jorge Villavicencio INTRODUCTION: Before evaluating the high cost that Jesus had to pay for the humanity's sin, we find that it also has a cost. I. - The high cost of sin. To sin is to miss the target. It is to fill not the standards of God. It is to break the moral law of God. "It is to choose our way instead of God’s way, and not to give Him his legitimate place in our life. The proof of that is in everything that surrounds us, in the moral chaos and in the anguish of our world. The news scream every day that we live in a broken and desolated world, because of the sin", says BILLY GRAHAM. To sin has a high cost. A. - The high cost of Israel’s people sin. The first generation of the people of Israel paid the high cost of the sin when they lost the promised land. Edwin Louis Cole says: "Five were the sins of Israel in the desert: Covetousness, idolatry, temptation to God, fornication and gossip. B. - The high cost that Adam and Eve had to pay for their sin was to leave the paradise. THE HIGH COST OF JESUS | www.mcmcolombia.org

Genesis 3: 24"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life”. C. - The high cost that Saul had to pay for his sin was to leave his Kingdom. 1 Samuel 15: 23"For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king”. D. - The two sons of prophet Samuel paid the high price of losing their lives. 1 Samuel 2: 25"If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them”. II. - The high cost of the cross. To eliminate the moral virus that infects the spiritual bloodstream, God sent his Son to die for us.

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Hebrews 10: 5-7"Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God”. Psalms 22 is considered as the sacred place of the Bible, and it has revelations of Christ 700 years before Him, concerning the high cost of the Calvary: 1. - The nails. Psalms 22: 16 "For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet”. The nails that trespassed Jesus were from 13 to 18 cm. long. Jesus was trespassed by the nails not through his hands because they would be torn, but through the bones in his wrists that tolerate up to 300 kilos of weight. The trespassed wrists section affects the radial artery and the reticular flexor and very surely the medium nerve that would hurt very much, that is to say that Jesus had both nerves nailed in the cross.

This position causes severe spasms in the toraxic box wich create a complication in the lungs. The heart and the lungs work to the same rhythm, the heart pumps blood to the lungs and these return oxygenated blood to the heart. If the heart and the lungs don't work in coordination, then the blood doesn't come out oxygenated from the lungs with the same frequency that the heart is sending it, then the muscles atrophy and they suffer spasms demanding oxygen from the heart. It continues pumping blood quickly to the lungs, but they can no longer respond efficiently and begin to fill with blood which is known as edema. Jesus' edema was serious because in six hours he became cadaver. The person that suffers an edema of this nature feels, as if he was drowning in a river, then to be able to breathe has to be impelled up, bending the knees a little and impelling his body up to open the toraxic box making that what ever is in the lungs comes out and to be able to inspire he has to be allowed to fall again. Jesus' back is mistreated and infected and it touches with the timber on the back every time that He is impelled and rests to breathe, all of these Jesus suffered for you and for me so that we are conquerors. Colossians 2: 14-15"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it”.

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The feet were trespassed between the second and third metatarsus bone. In the cross Jesus had his feet one over the other one, in an oblique position, causing a tension on the muscles that are near the femoral arteries and in the intercostal and pectoral muscles, caused by the tendency of the body to go forward and down.

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The words underlined in the passage are actions that happened in the cross and they describe the absolute victories obtained since there in the cross, because there Jesus conquers on the sin, on the devil and over all our enemies. "Exafelias" is the original word used for "to cancel". Literally it means: To pass a cloth on a written document, erasing, all that was written in it. Paul then, says that in the cross of Calvary, Christ took a document where all our sins were enumerated. Paul remembers what was made with the prisoners when they were put in jail: A document where all the crimes were enumerated was exhibited. Like wise, our sins were in a list and Jesus passing his blood on them, completely erased them. But to cancel goes further than to erase. Here the word bears the meaning of the act of making pieces the document that has the sins written. Jesus breaks the document in many pieces, he breaks them completely and finally he nailed all those pieces of the document in the cross. 2. - Dislocated bones. Psalms 22: 14"and all my bones are out of joint”. All his articulations were separated due to the crucifixion process, that is to say, with the cross in horizontal way on the floor and then it was lifted to be inserted in a hole. Also due to the body weight that pulled forward. 3. - Extreme dehydration. Psalms 22: 15"My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws” 4. - Anguish. Psalms 22:1"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?”.

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5. - Destroyed heart. Psalms 22: 14 "my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels”. John 19: 34"But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water” III. - The high cost of the disciples: Matthew 10: 38 "And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me”. Matthew 16: 24 "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me”.

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