Our deliverance through outstretched arms and love poured out

 

“And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend My spirit: and having said thus, He gave up the ghost.” (Luke 23:46).

“I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” (Ex. 20:2).

“Remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm.” (Deut. 5:15).

“I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.” (Eze. 20:34).

Jesus' strong mercy has been as powerful as His strong justice. His strong justice was as much love as His strong mercy. Love, in both His justice and mercy, was poured out. Both caused His outstretched arms.

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt.…

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people:

And … all shall know Me, from the least to the greatest.

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.” (Heb. 8:8-12, cf Jer. 31:31-34).