THE SOUL SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST
[What follows are some excerpts from H. Rondel Rumburg’s book The Soul Sufferings of Christ]
Oh! the greatness of Christ Jesus’ provision for ungodly hell deserving sinners! To think that God the Father would send His Son into a sin infested, God hating, law breaking, morally dishonoring world to die for a people who were dead in trespasses and sins plus they were His declared enemies. To think that God the Son, so use to the glories of heaven and the praise of heavenly beings, would come into this world for the purpose of living perfectly, suffering and dying as a substitutionary sacrifice for an unholy sin loving people. To think that God the Holy Spirit would come into a realm of wickedness to give a spiritual birth to those God the Father purposed to save and God the Son died to save! The sinless given for the sinful is incomprehensible! Think of it—“The LORD ... hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin” (Isa. 53:10); and then note the text, “Redeemed ... with the precious or priceless blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you” (1 Pet. 1:19-20).
Contemplate the words, “We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15). That was all the feelings of our infirmities including our sorrows as well as sin. All that the redeemed lacked in every way whether spiritual, physical or mental the Lord Jesus provided through his soul and bodily sufferings. “For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.... So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many” (Heb. 9:26, 28a).
The physical sufferings of Christ were great, but the soul sufferings of Christ were great as well. Yes, Christ’s sufferings were physical and spiritual. The body of His death and a soul sorrowful unto death were both true of our Redeemer. The soul sufferings are unknown to many and ignored by some. Thomas Goodwin (1600-1697) the English Congregational Puritan said, “The greatest of all Christ’s sufferings were those of His soul.” Christ did suffer in body, but He also suffered in soul. In the Divine Nature of Christ there was no suffering of soul or body, but in the Human Nature of Christ there was suffering. Wilhelmus `a Brackel (1632-1711) the Dutch Puritan commenting on the special sufferings of Christ in soul explained,
He did so rationally, and thus not merely by identifying and sympathizing with the suffering of the body. He who considers the suffering of the soul to be no more than a sympathizing with the suffering of the body is exceedingly ignorant. The sense of God’s wrath in the soul is the soul of suffering, even when the body does not suffer.
This quote helps us put the soul suffering of Jesus into focus. His sufferings of soul were intense as we shall see. Wilhelmus `a Brackel was right when he related to us that “God’s wrath in the soul is the soul of suffering....” We should not minimize any of the suffering of Jesus Christ and that is true of the soul of His suffering. We need to do as John the Baptist commanded, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). God’s Lamb took away sin by His suffering and death. Jesus was tested in all points like as we are yet without sin. The total being of man was greatly damaged by sin and this is why, in order to redeem, He had to suffer in all points. His soul sufferings were involved, and the Scripture reveals this in numerous places. Consider the following words,
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation.... Hebrews 5:7-9
Thomas Watson, the Puritan, noted, “Christ felt hell’s torment in His soul….”
Thomas Goodwin also a Puritan asserted, “The greatest of all Christ’s sufferings were those of His soul.”
[What follows are some excerpts from H. Rondel Rumburg’s book The Soul Sufferings of Christ]
Oh! the greatness of Christ Jesus’ provision for ungodly hell deserving sinners! To think that God the Father would send His Son into a sin infested, God hating, law breaking, morally dishonoring world to die for a people who were dead in trespasses and sins plus they were His declared enemies. To think that God the Son, so use to the glories of heaven and the praise of heavenly beings, would come into this world for the purpose of living perfectly, suffering and dying as a substitutionary sacrifice for an unholy sin loving people. To think that God the Holy Spirit would come into a realm of wickedness to give a spiritual birth to those God the Father purposed to save and God the Son died to save! The sinless given for the sinful is incomprehensible! Think of it—“The LORD ... hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin” (Isa. 53:10); and then note the text, “Redeemed ... with the precious or priceless blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you” (1 Pet. 1:19-20).
Contemplate the words, “We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15). That was all the feelings of our infirmities including our sorrows as well as sin. All that the redeemed lacked in every way whether spiritual, physical or mental the Lord Jesus provided through his soul and bodily sufferings. “For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.... So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many” (Heb. 9:26, 28a).
The physical sufferings of Christ were great, but the soul sufferings of Christ were great as well. Yes, Christ’s sufferings were physical and spiritual. The body of His death and a soul sorrowful unto death were both true of our Redeemer. The soul sufferings are unknown to many and ignored by some. Thomas Goodwin (1600-1697) the English Congregational Puritan said, “The greatest of all Christ’s sufferings were those of His soul.” Christ did suffer in body, but He also suffered in soul. In the Divine Nature of Christ there was no suffering of soul or body, but in the Human Nature of Christ there was suffering. Wilhelmus `a Brackel (1632-1711) the Dutch Puritan commenting on the special sufferings of Christ in soul explained,
He did so rationally, and thus not merely by identifying and sympathizing with the suffering of the body. He who considers the suffering of the soul to be no more than a sympathizing with the suffering of the body is exceedingly ignorant. The sense of God’s wrath in the soul is the soul of suffering, even when the body does not suffer.
This quote helps us put the soul suffering of Jesus into focus. His sufferings of soul were intense as we shall see. Wilhelmus `a Brackel was right when he related to us that “God’s wrath in the soul is the soul of suffering....” We should not minimize any of the suffering of Jesus Christ and that is true of the soul of His suffering. We need to do as John the Baptist commanded, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). God’s Lamb took away sin by His suffering and death. Jesus was tested in all points like as we are yet without sin. The total being of man was greatly damaged by sin and this is why, in order to redeem, He had to suffer in all points. His soul sufferings were involved, and the Scripture reveals this in numerous places. Consider the following words,
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation.... Hebrews 5:7-9
Thomas Watson, the Puritan, noted, “Christ felt hell’s torment in His soul….”
Thomas Goodwin also a Puritan asserted, “The greatest of all Christ’s sufferings were those of His soul.”
THE SOUL SUFFERINGS OF CHRIST
[What follows are some excerpts from H. Rondel Rumburg’s book The Soul Sufferings of Christ]
Oh! the greatness of Christ Jesus’ provision for ungodly hell deserving sinners! To think that God the Father would send His Son into a sin infested, God hating, law breaking, morally dishonoring world to die for a people who were dead in trespasses and sins plus they were His declared enemies. To think that God the Son, so use to the glories of heaven and the praise of heavenly beings, would come into this world for the purpose of living perfectly, suffering and dying as a substitutionary sacrifice for an unholy sin loving people. To think that God the Holy Spirit would come into a realm of wickedness to give a spiritual birth to those God the Father purposed to save and God the Son died to save! The sinless given for the sinful is incomprehensible! Think of it—“The LORD ... hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin” (Isa. 53:10); and then note the text, “Redeemed ... with the precious or priceless blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you” (1 Pet. 1:19-20).
Contemplate the words, “We have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15). That was all the feelings of our infirmities including our sorrows as well as sin. All that the redeemed lacked in every way whether spiritual, physical or mental the Lord Jesus provided through his soul and bodily sufferings. “For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.... So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many” (Heb. 9:26, 28a).
The physical sufferings of Christ were great, but the soul sufferings of Christ were great as well. Yes, Christ’s sufferings were physical and spiritual. The body of His death and a soul sorrowful unto death were both true of our Redeemer. The soul sufferings are unknown to many and ignored by some. Thomas Goodwin (1600-1697) the English Congregational Puritan said, “The greatest of all Christ’s sufferings were those of His soul.” Christ did suffer in body, but He also suffered in soul. In the Divine Nature of Christ there was no suffering of soul or body, but in the Human Nature of Christ there was suffering. Wilhelmus `a Brackel (1632-1711) the Dutch Puritan commenting on the special sufferings of Christ in soul explained,
He did so rationally, and thus not merely by identifying and sympathizing with the suffering of the body. He who considers the suffering of the soul to be no more than a sympathizing with the suffering of the body is exceedingly ignorant. The sense of God’s wrath in the soul is the soul of suffering, even when the body does not suffer.
This quote helps us put the soul suffering of Jesus into focus. His sufferings of soul were intense as we shall see. Wilhelmus `a Brackel was right when he related to us that “God’s wrath in the soul is the soul of suffering....” We should not minimize any of the suffering of Jesus Christ and that is true of the soul of His suffering. We need to do as John the Baptist commanded, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). God’s Lamb took away sin by His suffering and death. Jesus was tested in all points like as we are yet without sin. The total being of man was greatly damaged by sin and this is why, in order to redeem, He had to suffer in all points. His soul sufferings were involved, and the Scripture reveals this in numerous places. Consider the following words,
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation.... Hebrews 5:7-9
Thomas Watson, the Puritan, noted, “Christ felt hell’s torment in His soul….”
Thomas Goodwin also a Puritan asserted, “The greatest of all Christ’s sufferings were those of His soul.”
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