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Seven Last Words Daily Devotional -37

by David Joynt on March 25, 2021


HEBREWS 4:15 | 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.

 The battle with evil is also completed, for Jesus, on the cross. In the three classic temptations, and throughout His ministry, Jesus faced the possibility of using His divinity to impress others, to generate faith by means of spectacular proofs, or to coerce it by illicit means. He could have abandoned the way of God, which appeals through truth and grace and suffering love, and ruled human beings by sheer power.

Yet, He never gave in to evil. He never manipulated, He never compelled. In maintaining God’s true character and keeping God’s true methods right to the end, He defeated the evil one.

What was completed on the cross?

 

Tags: cross, completed

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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