Ever thought about that?
Will Jesus look down from Heaven when it is all said and done and say I
am satisfied with the amount of people that are here…or will he walk the
streets of Heaven gazing into Hell, heartbroken over the ‘near misses’ and
‘could of beens’?
In order to come to the correct conclusion we have to
consider what it means to be satisfied.
To be satisfied means ‘to have enough’.
We may say after a big meal that we are full and have had enough. That means we are satisfied…no more is required.
For this question, we are not trying to determine if Jesus
had enough to eat, but rather was he satisfied with his work of salvation. Think about your work. In order to be truly satisfied we must have
fully and completely accomplished what we set out to accomplish. Imagine a football team whose goal is to
score more points than their opponent on Friday night. They practice hard all week in order to
accomplish just that. When the game is
over the only way they can say they are satisfied with the result is if they accomplished
their goal. If they lost…none of them
would say they were satisfied.
Consider this scenario.
I have four children. Suppose I
came outside one day and saw all four of them struggling to swim in our
pond. It appears that drowning is
rapidly closing in on them. I jump in
the water and swim out to the first one.
I bring them to shore and return for another and another. Suppose after I safely deliver the third one
to the shore I turn around only to find the last one has slipped under. I frantically search for them to no
avail. Is it reasonable for me to return
to shore and say, “Well I got three out of four and I’m satisfied with that”? God forbid!
I would mourn the loss of that child every day I live. The only way I could ever say I was satisfied
with my efforts and the outcome is to have safely delivered all my children
from drowning.
So is Jesus satisfied with his saving efforts?
Isaiah 53:10, 11 “Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he
hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an
offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall
prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper
in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall
be satisfied: by his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.”
This tells us that our Savior, as he hung on the cross at
Calvary, could see all his seed. In the
omniscient mind of Christ he could see the faces of all those that he was dying
for. It says he could see what the travail
of his soul…the suffering of his labor…was purchasing…and he was
satisfied. That day on the cross Jesus
Christ knew exactly who would be the recipients of his atonement and he said
‘it is enough’.
If I, a fallen human being, cannot be satisfied unless I
have saved all of my own children from drowning…how much more should the one
who has a perfect love be dissatisfied with the loss of one of his?
The only conclusion we can come to is that the reason Jesus
Christ is satisfied with his work on the cross is because he saved every
one that he set out to save. The eternal
salvation he brought about on the cross was not something that was going to be
left up to chance. That should be no
surprise to us when we consider the scriptures.
Mt. 1:21 “And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt
call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”
John 6:39 “And this is the Father's will which hath sent me,
that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should
raise it up again at the last day.”
The scripture tells us that Jesus was going to save his
people…not make them savable…but save them.
It also tells us that it was a certainty that none of them would be
lost.
Jesus Christ was given a people by his father and it was his
purpose to come to earth and die for the sins of those the Father had given
him…and he did just that.
Jesus set out to save his people and he did. That is why Jesus is satisfied with those
that are in Heaven. Everyone that he
intended to be there…will be there…not one will be lost.
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