God Used Our Atrocity for Good

God reconciled poor sinners unto Himself by the death of His Son, our Lord Jesus.

But we must take care to notice that the part that we played in the death of Jesus is the single most grotesque, most wicked insult against God imaginable.

It is bad enough that His creatures rebelled against Him, being unthankful, obstinate, apathetic, and insulting to Him.

But then on top of that, when He sent His dear Son, Who did us nothing but good, raised poor dead men from the grave, and preached a glorious Gospel of forgiveness and everlasting life, we took Jesus out and murdered Him because of His goodness, and because He is God manifest in the flesh, come in peace to save us.

It is beyond belief that God should reconcile sinners to Himself by the very act in which we surpassed all our prior evil and wickedness against Him unto the highest act of defiance and hatred against Him!

God reconciles us to Himself through our greatest act of atrocity that we committed against Him.

The murder of Jesus by His own creatures is the greatest alienation possible between God and man, and yet God reconciles His people by the death of Jesus for us!

Jesus warned the Jewish leaders that their planned murder of the Son, sent by the Father, would in fact result in their destruction and judgment. His teaching harks back to the promise of destruction proclaimed by David in Psalm 2 upon all those who rebel against Christ.

Judas Iscariot's participation in the murder of Jesus, Christ foretold the night before, would result in his utter destruction.

We cannot imagine any possible act more alienating between us and God, yet God used it to reconcile us unto Himself!