 Okay, good morning everyone. Good to see some of you joined class. We wait for the others to join in. So how was your weekend all of you? You have a good weekend. Thank God. What about the others? Okay, thank you Jepeena. Jepeena says it was great. Like it's grace now. Good. The others had a good weekend, busy weekend. Ma'am the weekend went well with Sunday service and all. Good, thank you. So do you serve at church, sit in on Sundays? Ma'am my father is a pastor. Oh that's nice. So what is your role in church? Ma'am my work is media and translating my father preach in English. I translated it in Hindi. So that's nice. Okay, let's begin with the word of prayer. Can I ask Jepeena to lead us in prayer please? Father we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this beautiful day. An amazing class that we have brought here. God we invite the Holy Spirit to guide us and help us to learn about him that our mind be bigger about than Christ while he came and everything but please the gospel will be bigger than God is. Open the eyes of our hearts so that we can understand. Amen. Thank you Jepeena. So what was the lesson we looked at? The last lesson we looked at last Monday? Anyone remembers? What was the title of the lesson? No one remembers? The last lesson that we did? Yes Lubega, okay. Isilothori says the Virginal Conception. Okay, thank you. Yes Lubega, you had your hand up. Thank you Anita, the similar slam, yes. So what did we look at in the similar slam? What did we learn about similar slam? Who is the similar slam? Jesus Christ. Thank you, Jesus, yes. So what did we learn about Jesus being a similar slam? We looked at Jesus' title and role as the similar slam of God. So to understand this title and this role, what did we basically look at? What did we look at to understand Jesus as the similar slam of God? We looked at the Old Testament sacrifices that were made, right? And we saw how Jesus came to fulfill that. He was a type and the shadow of some of the Old Testament sacrifices that God had instituted for the Israelites and living about this Old Testament. So what is the first sacrifice that we looked at? What was the very first sacrifice that God had told the Israelites to do for generations to come? This was why they were in Egypt. So what is the first sacrifice? The Passover land. The Passover, so what they celebrated in Egypt. And God told them that they had to celebrate this piece of the Passover for generations to come. So we saw that this Old Testament piece of the Passover is a type and shadow of the redemptive work of Christ in the New Testament. This Passover piece that was instituted by God was pointing to the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. It was kind of a type and shadow of what Jesus would come to fulfill and be the Passover land. So how was Jesus the Passover land? How was Jesus the Passover land? Because Jesus was perfect, complete, spotless, and He was whole. So He is the perfect Passover land. Thank you. The Passover piece they had to choose a lamb that was a main lamb, a little old. And they had to be without any blemish, no sickness, no feities, no injuries. And a perfect lamb. We see that Jesus was the perfect Passover lamb. He made the perfect sacrifice. And also He was somebody who made the sacrifice so that we can pass over from eternal life, pass over from sins to be made righteous and justified in our sight. We pass over from actually being enemies of God to being friends of God. And so God, Jesus Christ, what He did on the cross, the sacrifice, and He made the redemptive work of the sacrifice on the cross, about our redemption, about our reconciliation, about our justification. And also our sanctification, we are being made without any spot blemish that we can be presented without any fault or blemish or any spot before the Most High. And then what is the other sacrifice that we got after the Passover lamb sacrifice? What else, what other sacrifice did we get? So something that they had to do daily, two times a day. So what was the sacrifice? The morning and the evening sacrifice. Yes, the morning and evening sacrifice that they had to do daily. So why did God require them to do this morning and evening sacrifice daily? Why did He have to ask them to do it daily? It was a mean of atonement. Yes, an atonement for their sins because they would sin daily. And God was His very presence, was there with them, He would come to speak to them. And hence, they had to make atonement for their sins. And also what they did signify the morning and evening sacrifices. It was not just atonement for sin because it was not just animal sacrifice. But they also had to make some grain sacrifice which was without any blood. So what did that signify? It signified total concentration. They would consecrate it totally to God. Like it was also the sacrifice as the first fruits. So it was not just baby sacrifice. It was totally giving their whole self and everything that they owed to God. And we see that Jesus did not have to make a sacrifice every day with this. He offered himself as a sacrifice for sins forever. And He did this once for all. And the reason He could do this was because He was holy, greatness, undefiled. And separate from all sinners, He was sinless. And by offering Himself up as a perfect sacrifice once for all, He put an end to the daily sacrifices. Hence, we don't have to make any daily sacrifices. And we also see that Christ was one with the Father. And He was totally surrendered. He was fully surrendered and totally consecrated. So He was the perfect sacrifice. He made the atonement for our sins. And because He was one with the Father, He was fully surrendered and totally consecrated. We see that the sacrifice was well pleasing in God's sight. And it made an atonement, a total and a final atonement for the sins of the whole mankind. And we looked at scriptures also talk about Jesus Christ as a suffering lamb. We looked at the Isaiah. We saw how He was oppressed and afflicted. And when He was reviled, that means He was criticized strongly. He was spoken of too rudely or unpleasant things we said about Him. We see that He was not reviled in return. So it shows us how Christ willingly and very passively go the finality for our sins. He fulfilled the Father's plan. He accomplished it. And so we see that Christ became the suffering lamb of God. So that He could make His life as an offering for our sins. And we also looked at another last offering. What was it? Anyone remember? Before we ended class, we looked at another offering in the Old Testament. What was that offering for? The Lamb of Revelation. That is not a sacrifice. But another sacrifice had got instituted in the Old Testament that we had seen. It starts with T. Anyone remember? A trespass offering? Thank you. A trespass offering is also called as a cute offering. And so we see that people who injured or hurt or did something to hurt somebody else, they had to make a restitution. And how did they have to make a restitution? They had to offer a sacrifice to God and animal sacrifice. And they also had to pay back or give back the person whom they had longed, whom they had hurt. We had to give back exactly what they had taken from them. And they had to give one fifth apart from that. We had to give them one fifth. So it was 120% that they had to pay back to the person. And they also had to make a sacrifice to God. So we see that Jesus also was our trespass offering. A trespass offering is a cute offering. We stand guilty before God with broken his heart and gone against him. And so Jesus made that offering. And so we no longer guilty or stand guilty before him. We have remained reconciled to God, reconciled back to God. So that is what we look at Christ's role and title. Title and role often being the sinless lamb of God. Okay. So move on to chapter 10, where we're looking at his substitutionary suffering. What do we understand by this word substitutionary? And what do we understand by, or what do you understand by substitutionary suffering? What's meaning or substitutionary? And we will take one before substitutionary. What does it mean? Someone or something in the place of... Yes, thank you Rubega. Someone or something in the place of someone else. Okay. Taking the place of someone else. So the meaning of substitution is we have to process or the result of substituting one thing for another. It can be a thing or a person substitutes the substitution or substituting for somebody else in that place. What do we understand by this role of Christ as the substitutionary suffering? The title of our lesson is his substitutionary suffering. So what do we understand by this? Christ was sacrificed where we should have been sacrificed. So he's the substitution for us. Thank you Japeena. So Christ took our place. We had to die. We took our place. We had to bear venaticurasans but he bore it upon himself. We were to be guilty and punished and ashamed in front of God but he took upon himself our guilt, our shame, our pain, our suffering and he stood in our place. Okay. So in discussing Christ's suffering we will be focusing on his substitutionary work on the cross. We know that Christ was to be the curse for us. He bore our sins. He bore our grief, our sorrows. He carried our sorrows. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our equities and he tasted death for every man. Okay. We're not talking about the temporary death that we all died but we're talking about the eternal death that we all died because of the consequences of our sin and Christ took our place. He took it on behalf of us in our place. He bore our grief, our sorrows, our curse. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our equities and he tasted death for every man. So Christ was taking our place, doing what we should have done, bearing the sins or the pain or the suffering, death that we should have gone. He took upon himself the suffering that we had to suffer and he paid for our sins for which we were required to pay what he paid it all for us. So the primary aspect of substitutionary sacrifice is that the one making the sacrifice fully identified with the one he was making it for. So Jesus in our place, you know, he fully identified with us again. Of course he identified with us as a man, with a human being and he understood the weaknesses, the faiths, our temptations but he was unlike other human beings, he was sinless but when the sins of the world were taken upon us, he identified with us even at that point when he took on the sins of the entire mankind. So when he took upon our sins, he was able to make the sacrifice for us since he fully identified with each one of us on behalf of whom he was making the sacrifice. On behalf of whom he was paying or making the atonement for our sins or taking the penalty for our sins. The other primary aspect of this substitutionary sacrifice is Jesus who made the sacrifice on behalf of us. He suffered with our adversities, our sorrows, our pain, our curse, our sicknesses. He bore it upon himself and he took upon our burdens. He took upon the evil that was upon us. He took it upon himself and he bore it all for us again. So we see that on the cross, you know, Jesus bore everything, our sicknesses, our pain, our shame, our sins, our trespasses. He bore it all for us, he bore it all for us. So in one of you, please read Isaiah chapter 53 verses 4 to 6, please. Isaiah chapter 53 verses 4 to 6. Isaiah 53, 4 to 6. Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. Yet we esteem him stricken, smitten by God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgression. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace was upon him. And by his stripes we were healed. Oh, we like sheep has gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. To his own way and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity for us all. Thank you, Jesus Christ. So here in this passage from Isaiah chapter 53, if we see that, you know, if we look at these different phrases, it shows that Christ bore the sacrifice on the cross. So if you took upon our sins, he bore it all for us again. We see a few of these phrases here. He bore our grief. He carried our sorrows. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The punishment that needed to obtain our peace was upon him. His stripes provided our healing. And the Lord laid on him all our iniquity. So we see that in this verse, in Isaiah chapter 53, if we notice that everything Jesus did was done on one behalf. And this was the substitution of suffering that he went through or he bore on behalf of us on the cross. So the word bore here is a bone here. It's NASA in Hebrew. It means to convey, to move to a distance or to lift, to take away or to cast away. So we see that he bore our grief. That means totally removed it. He distanced it away from us. He just lifted it up away from us. He took it away. He cast it away from us. Okay. So we can also see the different things that Jesus bore for us here in this verse. What are the different things that Jesus bore for us on the cross? From this verse, from Isaiah chapter 53, what are the different things that Jesus bore for us on the cross? What did He bear for us on the cross? Our sin, our sickness. Okay. Thank you. What else? Our pain, our suffering. Our suffering. Okay. Our pain. Our pain. Anything else? Transgressions and inquiries. Transgressions and inquiries, yes. Punishment for our peace. Yes. He took upon himself the punishment for our sin. So that we can obtain peace. Yes. So we see that the different things that Jesus bore on the cross for whom He took away or He cast away, He lifted away these things from us. Our grief, our sorrows, our transgressions, our iniquities and our chastisement. That is our punishment. Okay. And even our sicknesses, our curse, everything He took upon Himself, He bore it upon Himself, which means He just lifted it away from us. He cast it away from us. He moved it out from our distance and it's no way nearer to us. Okay. And the Greek word for grief is koli, which means sickness. And the word sorrows means makhub, which in Hebrew means the Hebrew word for sorrows is makhub, and it means pain. Okay. So Jesus bore all of this on the cross, not just that He took upon Himself our sin, but He also took upon Himself our sicknesses, our grief, our sorrows, our shame, our curse, our pain, our iniquities and our chastisement, that is our punishment. So, you know, if sometimes we live with pain, whether it is physical pain in our body or whether it's mental emotional pain, whether it is sickness or any sorrow or grief, you know, and we think sometimes that nobody understands, nobody knows what we are going through or nobody is going through what we are going through, but there is one who has already gone through and taken upon Himself all of these things that you and I will be suffering with or will suffer in the future and we know that we have one who identifies with us and that Jesus Christ knows what we are going through and that is why God became man, not just so that we could pay the penalty for our sins, but also God could understand our pain please and that is why these are very interceding high pleas. We intercede on behalf of us, you know, who understands our weaknesses and it also says that when we are tempted, he knows, he understands and he comes on behalf of us, he aids us, he comes alongside us, he helps us. He knows our pain please, he knows our weaknesses. So, you know, we have this God who is not just somebody who is planning things who is author things for us, who has a plan of purpose and, you know, and a final destiny for us, but it's a God who is, you know, he is involved in every minute, every hour, every day, things that we go through, every aspect of our life, every area of our life he knows and so we have this God, this great interceding high peace, this friend who understands us, who knows us and who is there to help us, okay? Isaiah chapter 53 verse 4, the young translation says, Surely our sicknesses we have borne and our pains we have carried them. The same verse of translation says, Surely our sicknesses we have carried and as for our pains we bear the burden of them, okay? So we know that Jesus is taking all of our sicknesses, all of our pain, our sorrows, our grief. So, you know, we don't have to live with those sicknesses. It's something that we, you know, refuse, we nullify, we cast out the first Jesus or we've taken upon himself our sicknesses and our pain and he has torches our feelings. So what we need to do is we need to believe that, we need to stand firm on and declare what he has done and finish on the cross and we need to, you know, receive that faith and the present till we receive our fire and our food and our complete healing and he's the God who's true to his word. When we declare his promises of healing, you know, we can receive healing in our body. We can see the supernatural work in our, in actual, because this is what we have accomplished on the cross and these are the things that he has done and it's not something that is just there to be in letter in the word of God, but it's something that we need to agree on, we need to stand on, we need to believe in our own lives, we need to accept it and something that we need to walk in. And then you can see the supernatural in your natural world. You can really experience and taste the full benefits of the cross or what Jesus has done on the cross for us. You can enjoy that, you can receive it for yourselves and also you can give it to others. So it's not that we have to continue living with some of our terminal sequences and illnesses and pain and grief and sorrow of losing our loved ones, but something that Jesus has already taken on the cross and something that we can set free from. Otherwise these things become a stronghold and a bondage and once it's a stronghold and a bondage it's so difficult for us to come out of that. So the important thing is to know the truth in God's word, to know our identity in Christ, who we are in Christ. It's also important to know that Christ has really accomplished for us on the cross and it's not something that is just on work but it's something that Jesus has offered himself. Just like when we worship, he extends all of himself I'm not just talking about corporate worship, I'm talking about it within our personal times. You know, when we are in the presence of God God extends all of himself to us, all of his nature, all of his goodness, all of who he is, he extends. So we can participate in the divine nature so that we can enjoy all of who he is in the same way when we think about the finished work with the cross. It's not something that we just think about it when we take part in communion. It's not something that we just think about it on a good Friday or Easter or during the length season. I know some of you live a part of the traditional church where we go through the length season where people can focus upon the cross. But I think the cross is something that we can the benefit of the cross is something that we can appropriate every minute of our life. Just keep declaring it over your life. Say God, you know, this is what a doctor said or this is what I've been suffering since childhood but you've already taken this upon yourself and I just cancelling this in my body just nullifying this, this is not your work you've already borne my sequences so that I can be healed and I just declare and I'm walking or healing and we need to believe that, receive that by faith and you know, that's when Trice worked on the cross what he has done for us would become a reality, would become something that we can really taste and see that the Lord is really good. So the Bible teaches us that Jesus in his substitution he worked on the cross borne our sequences and our pain that is all our physical ailments he took upon himself our sins our punishment and since Jesus took all of this upon himself and carried them away from us he cast it away from us I like this word cast it away from us you know it's just they're taking it and throwing it somewhere else so it does not no longer belongs to you the sickness, the pain, the grief, the sorrow the brokenness, the heartbreak it does not belong to you anymore because God has already cast it away it depends upon us whether we are going to let go of it sometimes we get so used to living with some of our terminal sicknesses, with our grief, with our brokenness with our pain, the shame that we have faced it kind of becomes a baggage that we carry and we've got comfortable carrying it but it's something that we need to cast away we need to let go we need to keep up the crisis cast it away from us and we need to let go I don't know if you remember this chorus faster burdens on to Jesus for who cares for you it's like just taking it and casting and throwing it away I think it should have done something that should have done mentally, emotionally because crisis is already done for us but we need to let go we need to cast it away from us so therefore what we hold we need not bear any longer and what we carry we don't carry on ourselves anymore I just wanted to give this a couple of minutes to each one of you I don't know if you have a pen or paper in front of you or you have your gadget you can just open up your pen just type there or just write down what are some of your griefs or your brokenness, your pain the shame that you've been carrying all this time physical sicknesses that you've been dealing with or living with and accepting and just being on medications and you know it's like a terrible thing but even as you write it down you can just say, God, you have cast all of this away from me and what I need to do today is I need to just let go of all of these things which I'm just holding on to and you take it on yourself you live a very life and you were separated from the Father and you were still this but you took upon my sins which was so detestable in your sight we took all of my pain, my shame my suffering, my grief my sickness and even as you've done that so that I can live in freedom or I'll be just carrying all of these things back and I just want to let go to this, okay? is it okay if you do that now? won't you? yes, no? no answers? please don't give me that now hello class, I am not getting any answers from you okay? yeah, so those of you who want to do that you just take a couple of minutes and you can do it those of you who say that, you know I've already done that I'm not going any baggages it's fine, you just wait for the others so you can take a piece of paper or you can just type it down in the note pad and you'll get it and we've done the sequences illnesses, pain, pain brokenness, shame guilt if you did it down you could just close your eyes in the same note pad and say, God you can name all of that if you did it on a sheet of paper all of that that you've got you can just say God is one who has reminded me that you've taken all of this upon yourself before all of this upon yourself that I can live in freedom I can be liberated I can experience internal life here and now you can take on all of these things like a big baggage and engines emotionally, mentally, physically you can take on and just lean it all down and just cast it in your way and as you do that you can just say why don't I open my mouth to the finished work of the class and receive your food and receive the food and the joy and the peace the shalom that you have put on the cross for me Jesus this morning we are just so filled with packed food and thanksgiving and praise for all that you have done and accomplished for us on the cross thank you that when you died on the cross for us since when you were born our sicknesses are healed our shame, our pain, our sorrows our transgressions our iniquities thought we thought about each one of us even before we resisted God we thought about us how great is your love we thank you that it is time to pause even as we are studying to work on the cross the substitution we work and the suffering that you went through on the cross I think we've paused from just this mere academic exercise of going through what we have done for us but just looking at it in a more personal a much more people way with a sense of latitude with a sense of joy with a sense of great thankfulness God we just thank you, you father for liberating us for granting us freedom so that we can enjoy the full benefits of the eternal life here and now in the present part we thank you Jesus we thank you for believing the full sufficient perfect sacrifice we thank you that you support we know what it is when we go through pain and sorrow and grief and loneliness and brokenness even as some of us here are going through deep brokenness in our hearts loneliness and depression and grief with losing our loved ones even suffering with the physical ailments we thank you that we bore it on the cross we declare the full benefits the finished work of the cross in each one's life each one's body we pray that they will just receive it by faith and they will be activated in their life start and they will experience experience your divine grace your divine favor your divine goodness your divine healing we go through their body we pray every stronghold in the mighty name of Jesus we set each one of us spring up we will see that we come to a place where we can exchange God everything that burdens that we can we can exchange it for all of your goodness for all of your love for all of your healing for all of your freedom we just receive and we pray that you continue to give us mindful of what you have done for us mindful that we are set free mindful that we are your children mindful that we are healing you then for all of us we thank you for hearing our prayer and Jesus really pray we pray okay thank you everyone for doing that we hope we can even take time you know in the first time just to reflect think about what we have done and if things just pop up in your life just believe that it's already done for all of the cross we just receive that and walk in freedom walk in the blessings that Jesus has we will receive for you all of the cross we pray the second thing is that his price substitution is something on the cross we did it for us out of what was the reason why Christ did all this for us because he wanted to win over the devil we wanted to put him down we wanted to show how powerful and mighty he is God is what was the reason why Jesus did it for us thank you it was the will of your father so what was the will of your father why did the father want this to be done so that we cannot die from the sins committed by Adam what we inherited okay thank you who I say what was the main motive or the reason behind what the father had planned and what Jesus had accomplished on the cross because God is all of the world thank you Zinu Toghi because God so loved her it was out of love okay so I think somebody had posted a question in the other class why God is loving and why does he want to punish him and so much of anger so we see here that it's not the anger of God and he is always attentive we see that he did it out of love he did not have to do this for us we could have let us die in our sins or we could have wiped out this whole generation we could have recreated the entire universe again but we see God's heart here and this very core of who he is and God is loved by John right he did this all out of love there is somebody Romans 3 of you can read Romans 5 8 and someone else can read 1 John 3 16 and 2 Corinthians 5 14 and 15 so in one of you can read Romans 5 8 someone else can read 1 John 3 16 Romans 5 8 but God demonstrates his own love for us in this while we were still sinners Christ died for us thank you you know how God demonstrated his love for us that while we were still sinners there was nothing good in us Christ died for us so there was no reason that we had to die for us there was no good reason there was no sufficiently a perfect reason that we had to die for us there was nothing that we could even see in us or even see in our future we knew our crazies our weaknesses that we are prone to sin but it was God who demonstrated his love towards us 1 John 3 16 1 John 3 16 by this we know love because he laid down his life for us and we also ought to lay down our lives further therefore thank you so how do we know our God's love is because he laid down his life for us 2 Corinthians 5 14 and 15 can you read that please 2 Corinthians 5 verses 14 and 15 for Christ's love compels us because we are convinced that one died for all therefore all died and he died for all that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them was raised again thank you we will go for a break now and you come back and look at this verse in 2 Corinthians 5 and see what we can do thank you