The Profound Significance of Myrrh in Christ's Mission

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"Occasionally, it was used as an antiseptic. For example, in myrrh, in Mark chapter 15 and verse 23, when Jesus was on the cross just moments before his death, you may remember this, that they took a sponge, put it on the end of a stick, and they stuck it up to Jesus. It was a mixture of wine and myrrh to help dull the pain in his final moments of life, and we know this, that Jesus rejected that, and the reason he did is because he wanted to pay it all. He did not want anything to detract from the full burden and the full pain and the full price of our sins, and he took it all to the cross and buried it once and for all." [00:09:04] (38 seconds)


"This is why for centuries now, most Bible scholars agree that when the wise men brought the gift of myrrh to the baby Jesus, it was going to be symbolic that this child would be the suffering servant, that he would be the lamb of God that would take away the sins of the world, that he would be that one that would stay and stand in our place in proxy of us, and that vicariously he would take our sins to the cross, paying for it once and for all." [00:11:21] (30 seconds)


"All of us like sheep have strayed away we have left God's path to follow our own and the Lord has laid on him that is Christ the sins of us all now let me say this to you that when you hear the word of God and you hear the word of God Isaiah referred to us as sheep he is not paying us a massive compliment it is not a big compliment if he would have said all of us like lions all right that may be a compliment all of us like eagles that may be a compliment but when he said all of us like sheep have gone astray he is identifying that we have a major problem." [00:13:21] (32 seconds)


"Sheep are weak, they are witless, and they are wayward. I'll prove it to you. They're weak. A sheep is defenseless. Think about it with me. They have nothing to protect themselves with from a lion or a coyote or a wolf. They are easy prey. They have no fangs. They have no claws. They don't even have quills on their back like a porcupine in defense. They're not fast like a deer that can run away from danger. They're not like a bird that can fly away from attack. They don't even have camouflage to blend in. They are just big, white blobs on the countryside, and they stick out like a sore thumb." [00:15:32] (36 seconds)


"Jesus was despised and rejected. He was a man of sorrows. He was acquainted with the deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, but we didn't care, yet it was our weaknesses that he carried. It was our sorrows that weighed him down, and we thought that his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins. But he was pierced for our rebellion." [00:18:44] (22 seconds)


"But thanks be to God, this is not the end of the story. In a few months, we're going to really make a big deal out of and celebrate what happened three days later. I grew up in a really traditional church home. My mom would play the piano and sing and they sang old, old, old, old songs. And some of them were like, old, old songs, like really old. And I remember this one song. Every now and again, my mom would just begin to play it and she would sing it. It was like super wordy. But I remember as a young man listening to the words of the song one time and I did some research and found out that in 1874, it was written by a pastor named Robert Lowry." [00:32:17] (38 seconds)


"He said, In one's stance, a death cannot keep its prey. My Jesus is torn the bars away. Up from the grave he arose with a mighty triumph over his foes. He arose the victor from the dark domain, and he lives forever with his saints to reign. He arose. He arose. Hallelujah. Christ arose. He was the suffering servant, but he is the risen king. And he finished the work so that you and I might go free and know what it's like to experience peace that passes all understanding. Merry Christmas indeed." [00:33:05] (37 seconds)


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