Once Jesus had all of our sins imputed to him, he was the most loathsome sight ever in

the universe, and God is too holy as to even look at sin.

And so, He turned his back on it, that he might be cursed, that we may not be cursed,

and instead we may be blessed.

To attempt to sanitize the cross of Christ by removing references to the wrath of God,

Christ becoming a curse, and downplaying sin is actually to strip it from its meaning

and veil the true gospel.

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today for renewing your mind.

All week, Arcee Sproul is helping us understand the work of Christ, all that He did to save

sinners like you and me.

Of all topics, we might expect Christians to understand the crucifixion in great detail.

The pulpits and Bible studies often fail to unpack the death of Christ as they ought, so

to help us treasure the cross of Christ and explain it more clearly to others, here's Dr. Sproul.

In today's session, we're going to take a brief look at the crucifixion of Christ.

We're all familiar with the Apostle Paul's statement that he was determined to know nothing

except Christ and him crucified.

Of course, that was an example of apostolic hyperbole because Paul also knew considerably

more and wrote on many other subjects besides the cross of Christ.

But what Paul was saying with that comment was in the crucifixion, we reached the zenith

of the work of Christ, the acme, the high point of the mission he was sent to accomplish.

Now had we been eyewitnesses of the crucifixion on Good Friday, I think it's very doubtful

that we would have realized that we were observing an act of cosmic significance that we would

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