{"id":3431,"date":"2015-09-19T07:13:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T07:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3431"},"modified":"2015-09-19T07:13:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T07:13:30","slug":"christ-died-in-place-of-his-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3431","title":{"rendered":"Christ Died in Place of His People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christ Died in Place of His People (Matthew 27:21-26<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Put your place in that cell with Barabbas. He hears his name shouted by
\nthe crowd. Then he hears, \u201cCrucify him, crucify him!\u201d He is convinced he
\nis a dead man walking. The jailor opens the door to his cell. But
\ninstead of dragging him to the cross, the jailor unlocks Barabbas\u2019
\nshackles announcing that Christ Jesus has taken his place on the cross;
\ntherefore, Barabbas is a free man. That is the good news of
\nsubstitution! Every chosen child for whom the Son of God shed his blood
\nat Calvary shall be set free by the Spirit of regeneration through the
\nkey of the gospel of the free grace of God. It is not possible for the
\nlaw to punish the Substitute and punish those for whom he died.<\/p>\n

The truth of the successful particular redemption of chosen sinners is
\nthe gospel which manifests the righteousness of God\u2014all others are not
\nanother. He has seen the travail of his soul and is satisfied. Is this
\nnews good to you or do you scream unfair? Do you think Barabbas screamed
\nunfair? Do you think he argued that there was something yet that he must
\ndo? Do you think he had to be persuaded out of that jail cell? Many
\nconvicts have had to be hog-tied to get them in a prison cell, not one
\npardoned prisoner has had to be coerced to go free. Has the Spirit of
\nGod entered into your heart with this gospel, unlocked your bars of
\nspiritual death with life, un-shackled your chains of unbelief with the
\ngift of faith?<\/p>\n

When death-row sinners behold the glory of God in the face of Christ
\nJesus it is the Light of the open door on the eternal day of blessed
\npardon. Picture Barabbas dancing and singing, \u201cRedeemed! Redeemed! Free!
\nFree!\u201d Oh, may God have mercy today and make us sing that joyful song! –
\nClay
\nCurtis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christ Died in Place of His People (Matthew 27:21-26) Put your place in that cell with Barabbas. He hears his name shouted by the crowd. Then he hears, \u201cCrucify him, crucify him!\u201d He is convinced he is a dead man walking. The jailor opens the door to his cell. But instead of dragging him to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,64,17,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-clay-curtis","category-successful-saviour","category-atonement","category-redemption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3432,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3431\/revisions\/3432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}