Join Cherri Campbell as she delves into the profound spiritual journey of Jesus Christ from the moment of his crucifixion to his ultimate resurrection. Discover the intense metamorphosis that Jesus underwent, transforming into sin to save humanity and fulfilling narratives from scriptures prophesied long before his birth. This episode explores the deep spiritual significance of Jesus’ journey, the fulfillment of ancient scriptures, and the ultimate sacrifice made for mankind.
00:00:00 Introduction to ‘What Happened from the Cross to the Throne’
Good morning. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. This morning, I’m going to continue sharing with you the message that I’ve been sharing with you in the last several broadcasts that I preached in one of our Victorious Faith services called, What Happened from the Cross to the Throne? And if you’d like to download the notes to follow along or to study further, you can go to my YouTube channel, which is under my name, Cherri Campbell, C-H-E-R-R-I Campbell, C-A-M-P-B-E-L-L. And there in the top category called radio broadcasts, you will see this message called what happened from the cross to the throne. And there, if you click on the video, In the description box below the video, you will see the link to download the notes and you can follow along and look up the scriptures and study them further, which I encourage you to do. So join me now in our live service for part five of what happened from the cross to the throne. You know, the Syrophoenician woman, Jesus said, it’s not right to give the children’s bread to the dogs. It was the Gentiles. Who were the Gentiles at the cross? The Roman soldiers. So the dogs are the Roman soldiers. Verse 16, dogs have surrounded me, the Roman soldiers. A band of evil men has encircled me. They have pierced my hands and feet. Notice it was the dogs, not the lions. prophetically it was so perfectly accurate it didn’t say that the roaring lions it said the dogs because it wasn’t the jews it was the romans they have pierced my hands and my feet the romans pierced him i can count on my bones people stare and gloat over me verse 18 they divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing fulfilled john 19 verses 23 and 24 but But you, Lord, be not far off. Oh, my strength. Come quickly to help me deliver my life from the sword. Rescue me from the lion. Save me from the oxen or the bulls and from the power of the dogs. Verses 21, 22. So that’s a quick. We’re not done yet. But up to that point, we’re looking at Psalm 22. He became sin. Second Corinthians 521. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us. You know, Jesus was not just carrying sin. He was made to be sin. Now, we have a hard time understanding that exactly, but let me say it like this. Transfigured. We have an idea of transfiguration when he was on the mountaintop with Peter, James, and John, and Elijah and Moses came, and he was transfigured in glory. Well, on the cross, he went through another transfiguration. but he was transfigured, becoming sin. No longer being recognizable. This is where we have to look at Isaiah 52, verse 14. Isaiah 52, 14. I’m going to read it to you in three translations. Amplified Bible, I’ll read first. For many of the observers, the onlookers, The watchers, as they saw him, I’m adding this, I’m explaining, this is when he was on the cross, looking at him, hanging on the cross. Those who observed, for many, the servant of God became, transfigured, became an object of horror. So all of our pictures, even the Passion of the Christ, where he still looks like a man, which you’d have to use technology to make him no longer look like a human being, but where he still looks like a man, it’s not right. Because as he was on the cross, he went through a transfiguration. I would say he looked like an ugly, horrifying demon, as horrible as they can ever look. He is transfigured on the cross, no longer a man anymore. But a horrifying, hideous creature. Doesn’t look like a man anymore. A horrifying, hideous creature. Those watchers would be eyes bugging out. What is that? For many, the servant of God became an object of horror. Many were astonished. The NIV says many were appalled. His face and his whole appearance were marred more than any man’s, partly due to the beatings because he’s ripped apart. But not only that, now he’s going through a spiritual transfiguration and his form was beyond that of the sons of men. His form, no longer the form of a man. He looks like a different kind of a creature. just as many were astonished at him. So his whole appearance, his face and whole appearance were marred and his form was beyond that of the sons of men. NIV, just as there were many who were appalled at him, his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness. no longer looked like a human being. The new revised standard says, just as there were many who were astonished, so marred was his appearance beyond human semblance and his form beyond that of mortals. He was transfigured into a hideous looking creature, not a human being anymore. And they were watching in astonishment. They were astonished. They were appalled. What are we seeing? And that’s something you don’t hear about. It happened. Jesus was transfigured on the mountaintop in the glory of God, but he was transfigured again on the cross into sin, becoming sin, becoming an unrecognizable creature, no longer in the appearance of a man. He did this for the penalty of sin, for the wages of sin is death. So we said he suffered in his spirit, soul, and body. Well, he suffered and died in his soul in the Garden of Gethsemane. He died to self-will. He suffered in the body at the whipping post. He died on the cross. We talked about the soul. We talked about the body. That leaves one more, the spirit. So we need to look at the death of the spirit. What is the death of the spirit? The death of the spirit is separation from God. The death of the spirit is separation from God. And even Jesus said in Psalm 22, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? He was separated from God. Why are you so far from saving me? Oh my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer separation from God. And it also then includes the miseries that come from sin. Spiritual death takes upon itself all the miseries of sin. Well, as he was made to be sin, he took all the miseries of sin, which were sickness and disease, poverty and lack, but it’s also fear. It’s also torment of every kind. It’s anger. It’s hopelessness, helplessness, everything that came from sin. And so that is death. He received it all on himself, becoming that on the cross and then to be followed by the wretchedness of hell. Hell itself is the penalty for sin. The wages of sin is death. And the culmination of that is in hell. Hell was created for Satan and his demons, not for man. But when man chooses to serve Satan and not to serve God, man will get Satan’s punishment. And so Jesus had to pay the price and go to hell. Now, some people will and some preachers have said, well, Jesus didn’t go to hell. that he only went into paradise. Because he did say to the man beside him today, you’ll be with me in paradise. The other guy was going to be in paradise. The criminal, not Jesus. But they were going to be able to communicate with each other because Jesus cried out on the cross, it is finished. And we’re going to look at that. It is finished does not mean that he still had to go to hell. He still had to go three days and three nights in hell. But what does it is finished mean? The Greek word is tetelestai. T-E-T-E. L-E-S-T-A-I Tetelestai, it is finished. And Greek scholars, going back to the days of Jesus, to find the use of that word tetelestai in the modern time of Greek that he was in, had different meanings. One, by the definition of tetelestai, it means to bring to completion, to bring to conclusion, to complete, accomplish, fulfill, finish, And to execute and carry out a command, which he did, carried out the Father’s command. And it is to reach completion, maturity, and perfection. So Jesus exclamation did not mean that he hadn’t gone to hell and he wasn’t going to go to hell. It wasn’t just all done. There was still another work to be done. But what did it mean? It meant, Father God, I have carried out your command. Mission accomplished. It meant number two. It was also equivalent to the Hebrew word. That was Greek, carried over. The equivalent in Hebrew was the word spoken by the high priest when he sacrificed that lamb without spot or blemish. The priest would speak in Hebrew the same thing it is finished that it means in Greek. And so annually, every year, the high priest would have to enter the Holy of Holies and kill the sacrificial lamb and pour its blood in the mercy seat. When Jesus said it is finished, he was declaring the end of the sacrifices. The end of killing the bulls and the goats and the lambs, the end of animal sacrifices. It is finished. No more offering of sacrifices because the ultimate sacrifice has been paid. All sacrifices are finished forever. Number three, it was also a word, tetelestai was a word used in the business world to describe the full payment of a debt. the debt is paid in full. Like when you stamp paid in full on a note, that’s exactly what it was. And so when a debt had been fully paid off, the parchment on which the debt was recorded was stamped that said tetelestai, meaning paid in full. So when a criminal was sentenced, they had a sign over their head of the charges written against them for why they’re being crucified. This one’s a murderer. This one was a thief. Whatever crime they committed, whatever they were found guilty of was put on a parchment and hung above their head as they hung on the cross. That was the bill of charges against them. It is what they are being crucified for. It was the indictment against them, what they are guilty of. And so we remember they put a sign over Jesus’ head too. And it was the accusation, what he was found guilty of, and it was also the sentence. Sometimes a criminal would be sentenced to 15 years of prison. It would be written down 15 years of prison, whatever. So when the sentence was… fulfilled, like if it was a prison sentence, 15 years in prison, then that parchment stating his sentence would be stamped, tetelestai, paid in full. Our sentence was nailed to the cross, Colossians chapter 2. When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the written code. The King James says, blotting out the handwriting of ordinances against us. of charges what you just heard was part five of a message that i preached in one of our victorious faith services called what happened from the cross to the throne we will continue this message again tomorrow so join me again tomorrow and remember god loves you you are blessed and highly favored by the lord
