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Easter Through The Eyes Of Caiaphas
Contributed by Scott Maze on Mar 25, 2025 (message contributor)
Summary: God substitutes Jesus for His enemies. This is the very center of our Christian faith: God substituted Jesus for us sinners.
When you go to pick a Savior, pick a good one. Everybody needs saving. So, when you go to pick a Savior, I tell you to check out your Savior’s track record. What other name can walk on water? What other name can turn water into wine? What other name can tell the sea to calm down? Tell me who else can make the blind see and the lame walk. Listen to the voices of millions of people around the globe chant, but one name and one name only: J E S U S.
There is no other name!7
To the believers in the room, let me speak to you for a moment. Jesus is your substitute. He punished Jesus so He could reward you. Believer, when Satan reminds you of your sin, you remind Him that God is too just to punish you when He’s already punished His Son. God would never require two punishments for the one sin.
EndNotes
1 https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-09-25/texas-ranger-got-one-of-the-nations-worst-serial-killers-to-talk-this-is-how; accessed March 25, 2025.
2 https://web.archive.org/web/20100812171206/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,976299,00.html; accessed March 25, 2025.
3 John Piper, “Jesus Died to Gather the Children of God,” Sermons from John Piper (2000–2014). (Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God, 2014).
4 John Piper, “Jesus Died to Gather the Children of God,” Sermons from John Piper (2000–2014). (Minneapolis, MN: Desiring God, 2014).
5 https://gabc-archive.org/wp-content/uploads/s011220.pdf; accessed February 16, 2025.
6 https://gabc-archive.org/wp-content/uploads/s011220.pdf; accessed February 16, 2025.
7 E. V. Hill and Joseph M. Stowell, A Savior Worth Having (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2002).
