I am calling our Lord’s Agony (Agonies might be a better term) His “SOUL SUFFERINGS.”

We know He suffered physically, both in His Life and in His Death. But I am trying to dig deeper.

Psalm 16:10, a Prime Example of what is called a “Messianic Psalm” or “Messianic Prophecy” … says of our Saviour, actually employing His Very Words (about 1,000 years prior to His Virgin Birth) … “For thou wilt not leave MY SOUL in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”

Yes, Jesus talking to His Father … “For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.”

Wow!

Since we know that Jesus did NOT go to the literal flames of Hell, what does He mean here?

First of all, note His Word SOUL!

Possessive, He says MY SOUL!

Folks, on the Cross those six hours, that is when Jesus SOUL SUFFERED!

He paid the entire sin debt (our sin debt) on the Cross, otherwise He could not have announced “IT IS FINISHED.” (John 19:30)

Here is the meaning … and I am not alone in my interpretation … JESUS IN HIS SOUL (MIND, WILL, EMOTIONS, SPIRIT TOO) ENDURED WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE EQUIVALENT OF MY ETERNITY IN HELL, WHAT I WOULD HAVE FACED HAD I DIED LOST!

Compound that soul suffering “whosoever” times! He in His Soul paid the debt, the sin debt … for us all!

Jesus plunged Himself into the Ocean of God the Father’s Holy Wrath … appeasing the Righteous Nature of God … so I might be saved from that very Hell!

Oh, what unimaginable suffering, what soul suffering!

But as our Psalm 16 Text declares … He was not left in such a Hell of suffering!

Once sin had been atoned, Jesus’ Death/Burial was reversed!

God the Father, Whose Wrath has been satisfied, raised His Darling Son from the grave!

But we will likely never know what His SOUL suffered that Day at Calvary!

What a Saviour!

— Dr. Mike Bagwell

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