I know you are probably thinking, "gee that's obvious, Jesus Christ died on the cross!" Well let's find out if it should be so easily dismissed.

I used to wonder why Jesus seemed to waver at the last minute. I mean why ask the Father to remove the cup from him? Mathew 26:39 "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will but as you will." Just before that prayer, he tells his disciples in verse 38: "my soul is overwhelmed with sorrow, to the point of death!"

"To the point of DEATH!" Now let me ask, how much sorrow is this that would burden anyone to the point of death? Remember, Jesus wasn't/ isn't just anyone. He is God!

So what is this that would trouble him so? Was it the betrayal that awaited him? Was it the flogging that followed? What about the crown of thorns, his clothes being ripped off, the heavy cross, the insults hurled his way? Or maybe it was because he was going to die?

In our present world have you ever heard someone say that they are not afraid of death? I have! As a Christian, you shouldn't be afraid of death because you are assured of eternity. Since Jesus was simply going back to whence he came, I am certain death wasn't the problem here.

What about the betrayal and torture? Not to mention the humiliation... Remember Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, thrown in a burning furnace because they refused to worship the golden statue...What about Daniel, thrown in a lion's den, because he wouldn't pray to the King Darius. If mere mortal men were willing to endure such physical pain which would lead to their deaths, I know the flogging and insults that Christ endured wasn't the factor either.

(I have recently come to new information about the suffering Jesus endured on the cross. It wasn't as light as described above. The scripture  says in Isaiah that his face and body were disfigured beyond recognition. You couldn't even tell if He was human! I'm still digesting this new info. Because.... Wow! You know when the word says that he took up our infirmities, that is literal! He really did take up all our illnesses, for his body to be disfigured so!!!)

When they say that Christ became sin, 2 Corinthians 3:21, Do we know the magnitude of this statement?

First know that God is holy, through and through. He is pure, while sin is anything but! When Jesus took up our sin, He became sin. Something that God doesn't condone, something he intends to eradicate and throw in the lake of fire. God in effect, separated himself from Jesus who in this case was sin. My sin! Your sin! God forsook/ abandoned/ turned his back on Jesus Christ, His own, only son because of you and I! Because of our sins.

God's wrath: first, can you feel God's goodness, His love, kindness? He is Holy, yet his response to sin/evil is in equal measure only in the opposite direction. Am I making sense? To the extremity with which God loves, to that same intensity does he punish sin.

Jesus Christ, God's own son, who is also God by the way, rem triune God, couldn't bear the thought of his father's wrath, (could this be why Jesus seemed to waver in the last minute? Separation from the Father? Separation that would only last three days, yet he wasn't willing to last even those three days. How far are you from God? Our Father. How are you living without any knowledge of Him? But the question really is, are you really living?) ...cont. Yet he did anyway. So you and I don't ever have to experience whatever he experienced while hanging from that cross. Romans 3:25 God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement (compensation) through faith in his blood...

God is three in one, God the father, God the son and the Holy Spirit. God the son, offered to come down and offer himself as an atonement for our sin. He knew what it entailed yet he did so anyway. John 3:16 "for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life." God loves us so much that he spent his wrath on himself! He punished himself for our sin!
This act alone is beyond words, yet the greatest act of love this world has ever seen!

So really what happened on the cross? Do you really want to know or would you rather thank God, praise Him for his abundant love? For sending Christ to die so you can escape wrath and instead spend eternity with him...

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I am not a theologian. I am simply a born again Christian with a push to share Christ. If you notice anything that isn't biblical, kindly point it out, with Bible verses to support your point.

Thank you for reading.

June.