OK, this is long, I know, but I thought I’d share it anyway. Much of the information below comes from Mark Driscoll’s Death By Love and Mark Dever and J.I. Packer’s In My Place Condemned He Stood.
The Accomplishments of the CrossColossians 1:19-20
TBQ: What did Jesus accomplish on the cross?
As we approach Easter, few questions are as important as the question of what was accomplished on the Cross by Jesus Christ, our Savior. We sometimes have the tendency to gloss over Good Friday in eager anticipation of Resurrection Sunday, but let me encourage us all to ponder the work of the cross before the celebration of Easter. After all, we celebrate Resurrection Sunday only because Jesus died on a Friday. And how odd, when you consider that the Friday on which our savior died is called good. How can the day of Jesus’s death be a good day? I hope, through an examination of Colossians 1:19-20 and other passages, to show you at least ten things accomplished by Christ on the cross.
He was fully God upon the tree, as affirmed by Paul to the church at Colossae; in him all the fullness of God dwelt, but through him, God was pleased to reconcile all things to himself, making peace through the blood of Jesus on the cross. But what did Jesus accomplish?