Psalm 31:5

Psalm 31:5

His Spirit lives!     

Anyone who knows about the suffering and crucifixion of the Lord Jesus will know this phrase, “Into your hands I commit my spirit.” Luke 23:46. These were His last words on the cross and Luke follows up by saying, “When He had said this, He breathed His last.” What is so incredible is that in the final seconds of His life, having suffered more than any man, with His senses dulled by pain and His body wracked by the torture of the preceding hours, the Lord finds it in Himself to quote David’s words from Psalm 31! Not only so, but He shouts the words with a loud voice! This was not the whimpering last wish of a defeated criminal; this was the triumphant surrender of the Son of God who knew that He had accomplished all that His Father had sent Him to do. The suffering was ended, the sacrifice was complete, all that was left was to hand over His Spirit to God and let His body cease its struggle. The mind of King David and that of the Messiah were as one; the Holy Spirit took the immortal words, written 1,000 years before, and fulfilled them in the most extraordinary way, and in so doing He allows us a clue as to what happened next. For while the body of Jesus of Nazareth slumped into the clutches of death, His spirit was claimed by the Father and kept for resurrection, 3 days later. The Jesus who the bemused and frightened disciples met after the resurrection, was the same Jesus that they had previously known for 3 years. His spirit had survived death and thus overcome death, what was different was His body. His body had died and He was reclothed with a post resurrection body. His spirit could not die for He had no sin and it is sin that brings death. In dying for us He has released us from the charge sheet of sin that was written against us and so we too shall live with resurrection bodies. Hallelujah!

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