The death of the Lord Jesus Christ is a judicial event of cosmic significance. As He hung upon the Cross, He was proclaiming His love for underserving sinful men, for He was bearing in His person the justice of God upon the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2), so that all might have opportunity to escape that justice in their own persons.

The prophet Isaiah, foretelling our Lord’s sufferings, sums up the message for us : “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all” (Isaiah 53:6).

However, until each individual repents of sin and trusts in Christ’s death as the only means of finding mercy, he or she remains in a state of condemnation, which leads on to an eternal punishment (see John 3:18 and Mark 9:45, where the Lord Jesus speaks of “hell … the fire that shall never be quenched”. In the Saviour’s sacrificial death we are presented with the vey heart and substance of the Christian gospel and can only declare with the hymn writer, “Love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all”.(Isaac Watts).

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Thank you for listening. We give this podcast the subtitle of 'The 33:12 Report', after Psalm 33, v12, which reads, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord".

Pastor Simpson has been the pastor of an independent Bible believing Methodist Church for 35 years, and now lives in Middlesbrough in there northeast of England. He continues with an active open air preaching ministry the Teesside region. He is also a Christian author and commentator, applying the Bible to national life both past and present.

Books by Pastor Simpson

WHEN A NTION PRAYS: go to https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B7QGX5CL

THE CHRISTIAN CASE FOR IMMIGRATION CONTROL: go to https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GLG67PM2

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