Summary
Bunyan examines Christ's substitutionary atonement, emphasizing that Jesus willingly faced God's eternal justice and the full wages of sin without an intermediary to intercede on His behalf, thereby becoming a curse for sinners and satisfying divine justice through His death. The author highlights Christ's paradoxical joy in approaching His sacrifice and stresses the immediacy and completeness of Christ's confrontation with God's judicial wrath as He bore the penalty meant for His enemies.
We never read that Jesus Christ was more cheerful in all His life on earth, than when He was going to lay down His life for His enemies; now He thanked God, now He sang. Christ died and endured the wages of sin, and that without an intercessor, without one between God and Him. He grappled immediately with the ETERNAL JUSTICE OF GOD, who inflicted on Him death, the wages of sin; there was no man to hold off the hand of God; justice had its full blow at Him, and made Him a curse for sin.
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