39 | The Great Exchange

Mark 15:1-15
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We deserve death, and Christ has taken our place.

Isaiah 53:7
He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

Isaiah 50:6-7
I gave My back to those who strike Me, and My cheeks to those who pluck out the beard; I did not cover My face from humiliation and spitting. For the Lord GOD helps Me, Therefore, I am not disgraced; Therefore, I have set My face like flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed.

“Anytime you find yourself in the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
- Samuel Clemmons

There is peace and power in knowing how the story ends.

Ephesians 2:8–9
“By grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast”

2 Corinthians 5:21
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God”

1 Peter 2:24
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed”

We deserve death, and Christ has taken our place.