If it seemed to be a time when God's wrath would be justified if it came swiftly, this would be it.

Well, in a strange irony, his judgment did come swiftly at the cross, but he didn't come on a crowd it came on Jesus

on behalf of those who blasphe a man. No detail in scripture is unimportant. That means if you're studying the crucifixion, you can learn from each of the personalities who interacted with Christ, including the Roman soldiers who executed him, and the crowd who watched him suffer, and the thieves who died beside him.

How did each group respond to Christ and how did he respond to them?

Find out today on Grace to you as John MacArthur continues his study called the Crucifixion Chronicle.

This study points you to the immeasurable depth of Christ's mercy, both for those who mocked

him and put him to death and for sinners like you and me.

Now here's John with today's lesson.

Luke chapter 23 and we are of course at the cross of Christ. Those that are gathered around the

cross are mocking, sneering, and hurling abuse at Jesus with sarcasm.

They're endeavoring to treat the Son of God with as much dishonor as they can muster,

with as much disrespect and disdain and shame as they can possibly generate.

blasphemy can't be worse than this.

And we might ask that in light of the heinousness of this, maybe this is time for God to act.

We should be expecting a holy righteous God to react to this kind of ultimate blasphemy

by pouring out wrath and vengeance and fury on those who are perpetrating this on him.

If ever there seemed to be a time when God's wrath would be justified,

if it came swiftly, this would be it. it, if it came swiftly, this would be it.

Well in a strange irony, his judgment did come swiftly at the cross, but it didn't come

on the crowd, it came on Jesus on behalf of those who blasphemed him.

How strange it is that there at the event of Calvary when God's fury should have come down on the crowd

it instead came down on Christ for the crowd on their behalf.

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