Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. — John 19:4 KJV
Man has been on a quest for righteousness since sin entered this world. He has sought every means possible to attain cleanliness before God's eyes and conscience and attains the convincement that appeasement has been made, only to have conscience trouble him again. Therefore, he chooses to do one of two things: give up or try harder.
The answer to guiltiness is before us and is found in the Faultless One. The answer to the troubled conscience is that the solution to misdeeds and overt sin is presented, "Behold, the Man!" (See John 19:5)
Our problem is that we see our sins and judge them in light of how we want to be sentenced. God demonstrated for us His verdict on sin by condemning His Son to die the cruelest of deaths. His sentence for sin is irrevocably death.
God told Adam,
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. — Gen 2:17 KJV
And guess what?
Adam ate of it.
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. — Gen 3:11-12 KJV
The sin committed cannot be undone, overlooked, or ignored. Though the world may not have witnessed it, God did, and conscience testifies.
Try harder. Next time, I will do better. But how do you answer the sentence of death?
Give up. I'm just going to do it again, so what's the use in trying. Why heap judgment upon judgment?
There is a third option that brings us to our praise-thought today, "Behold, your King!" (See John 19:14)
Behold, your King is also your sacrifice. You can be justified through him by whom you shall be judged at the last great day. In this verse, our Lord seems delighted to declare that blessed gospel which is the two-edged sword of his grace. Hear it, you sinners! Hear it, and obey it at once! What! Will you not look? Do you deny your Lord a look? Shall God cry, 'Behold me,' and will you hide your faces from him? I trust that some who never knew the gospel before will at this instant 'Behold the Lamb of God'. Look to your bleeding Saviour, your forgiving God. Look and live. --C. H. Spurgeon
Behold Him, faultless in perfection, peerless in beauty, limitless in love, and find in Him complete pardon.
The Faultless One
--C08/14/2020
Day 226: The Faultless One
Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may know that I find no fault in him. — John 19:4 KJV
Man has been on a quest for righteousness since sin entered this world. He has sought every means possible to attain cleanliness before God's eyes and conscience and attains the convincement that appeasement has been made, only to have conscience trouble him again. Therefore, he chooses to do one of two things: give up or try harder.
The answer to guiltiness is before us and is found in the Faultless One. The answer to the troubled conscience is that the solution to misdeeds and overt sin is presented, "Behold, the Man!" (See John 19:5)
Our problem is that we see our sins and judge them in light of how we want to be sentenced. God demonstrated for us His verdict on sin by condemning His Son to die the cruelest of deaths. His sentence for sin is irrevocably death.
God told Adam,
But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. — Gen 2:17 KJV
And guess what?
Adam ate of it.
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. — Gen 3:11-12 KJV
The sin committed cannot be undone, overlooked, or ignored. Though the world may not have witnessed it, God did, and conscience testifies.
Try harder. Next time, I will do better. But how do you answer the sentence of death?
Give up. I'm just going to do it again, so what's the use in trying. Why heap judgment upon judgment?
There is a third option that brings us to our praise-thought today, "Behold, your King!" (See John 19:14)
Behold, your King is also your sacrifice. You can be justified through him by whom you shall be judged at the last great day. In this verse, our Lord seems delighted to declare that blessed gospel which is the two-edged sword of his grace. Hear it, you sinners! Hear it, and obey it at once! What! Will you not look? Do you deny your Lord a look? Shall God cry, 'Behold me,' and will you hide your faces from him? I trust that some who never knew the gospel before will at this instant 'Behold the Lamb of God'. Look to your bleeding Saviour, your forgiving God. Look and live. --C. H. Spurgeon
Behold Him, faultless in perfection, peerless in beauty, limitless in love, and find in Him complete pardon.