He brought upon that nation their final verdict. The Master sent his son to the vineyard and like the messengers they also killed the son. His life was spent executing righteousness, and for it, they executed him and brought upon them a full and final verdict of their hardhearted rejection of God. God had in times past sent his Moses’, his Joshua’s, His Judges, His Kings, and his prophets. The nation would not accept God’s word because by and by they would not accept the God of the Word, and the refusal of the living word, Jesus Christ was the final proof. Imagine how longsuffering God is, He would not judge this nation until they had rejected God in the flesh, even still his covenant with them could not be broken, the covenant made with their father Abraham, and the covenant made with their King David were everlasting Covenants, as long and enduring as the God who made them.
Judgment not only came upon the nation of Israel in the days of Jesus but Judgement was poured out upon Christ at the end of His life. Having full proof that these people were without a doubt worthy of their condemnation, Jesus Still went to the cross to have their sins placed upon him. Upon the cross that they made for Him, he cried Father forgive them, When they wept for him on the via de la rosa, his care was for them and the chastening they would receive in the days to come. As we have said for many days, the Love of Christ is beyond our capacity to measure or understand, His everlasting covenant was a covenant of God’s love, which cannot be broken, not even by a cross.
He executed judgment as he was executed, not at the hand of The Romans or the Israelites, but at the hand of our just God. Jesus is the link between judgment and mercy, sin and forgiveness, he is the fulness of all things and it is in him that we find the full and final execution of Judgement and righteousness. God’s judgment of him as a sinner on our behalf makes us righteous and God just. "Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin", yet it was not our blood that was shed to execute righteousness, but his. He was "made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him." God’s Justice could not allow sin to go unpunished, he would cease to be the righteous Judge of all the earth, but his love could not bear to let us suffer for our crimes, Christ was and is the answer, He suffered for us, he died for us, he brought us justice and righteousness, not just forgiveness and mercy. This should be a treasured truth to you believer, that not only are you forgiven by Jesus but you are truly justified, Justified in the eyes of the judge of all the earth, this is not a faux justification, but real. The righteousness of Christ was so perfect and pure that his life for yours was indeed sufficient to forgive and justify you and all who may ever come to him.
This is what the root of David, which sprung up in the years before Israel's fall to Rome did for you and me and as many as ever will believe in him. He executed judgment and righteousness. It is no wonder Jeremiah refers to him in the following verse as “The LORD our righteousness.” His love for us spurred his death for us and his sacrificial death for us was the execution of the judgment and righteousness that every man requires before a Holy God and this can only be found in the “Root of David," Jesus Christ, do you know him? Have you believed on him? Has he taken your judgment and become your righteousness?
Romans 5:8-9 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
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