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Man of Sorrows, King of Glory: What the Humiliation and Exaltation of Jesus Mean for Us is unavailable, but you can change that!

Evangelicals, rightly called “people of the cross,” look to Jesus’s death and resurrection as the central points of his earthly mission. However, many Christians have questions about these pivotal events and what followed—Why did Jesus rise from the dead? Why did he ascend into heaven? What is he doing now? In Man of Sorrows, King of Glory, Jonty Rhodes uses the traditional roles of Jesus as...

Jesus had to be one of us to live the life we should have lived and die in our place as our representative. We might be tempted to think that being sinless was the only qualification our Savior needed. But that’s not the case: a sinless angel couldn’t die for us. Gabriel, should he have wanted to, could no more pay for our sins than the goats and bulls of the Old Testament. He (and they) may be without sin, but they are not human, so they simply can’t stand in our place. As question 14 of the Heidelberg
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