2. Christ sacrificed for this purpose everything that He had, withholding nothing, so that the oblation might be complete. In the Garden of Olives He yielded up His Soul to sorrow even unto death, feeling the natural shrinking from death; endured the revulsion and loathing that accompanied the sense of the vileness and hatefulness of the sins He took upon Him; and by the sense of pain that the presence of sin brings on the soul. He suffered the bereavement of friends, their cowardice and desertion; the betrayal by Judas, the denial by Peter. He suffered the privation of His liberty, for He was made fast, and was dragged away by the soldiers and servants. Before His judges He suffered in His honour. He was buffetted and mocked, and smitten in the face, and spit upon, and exposed to the multitude as a criminal. He suffered in His reputation. The robber, Barabbas, was chosen in His place. He was publicly condemned as a criminal. He was made to bear His Cross, and was crucified between two thieves. He suffered in His Body. He was scourged. He was crowned with thorns, and then smitten over the head. He was tormented by the driving of the nails through His hands and feet. He was tortured by suspension on the Cross; by thirst and fever. He was despoiled of His garments, and exposed in nakedness to the derision of His enemies. He was deprived of the succour of His mother, and of His faithful friends in the agony of death. Finally, He gave up His life, when He had suffered in every way He could suffer, and with a loud cry died. 3. Our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross by His suffering _expiated_ our guilt. Our Lord Jesus Christ on the Cross died as a _vicarious_ sacrifice for us. [Illustration] Thursday in Holy Week. _THE EFFECTS OF CHRIST'S SACRIFICE._ We will consider Christ's Sacrifice in its relation to God and in its relation to man. 1. In relation to God, it was a full and sufficient sacrifice satisfying the Divine Justice. A satisfaction is, in general, the voluntary reparation made to one who has been injured or wronged. It may be equivalent to the wrong, when the reparation is equal in degree to the offence. It may be suitable when it is proportioned to the powers of him who offers the atonement. The satisfaction due to God from man could never have been equivalent to the injury or wrong done; therefore Christ made atonement, and His Sacrifice is equivalent, for it is in proportion to the offence; as the offence is infinitely great, so is His satisfaction infinite in its greatness. An offence is more or less grave according to the exaltation of the person offended. And an expiation is more or less full and perfect according to the dignity of the person who offers expiation. Now God was offended by man's sin; and it is the God-Man Who makes atonement for that sin.