"Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into His glory?" Luke 24:26
When our Lord rose from the dead, He rose to an absolutely new life, to a life He did not live before He was incarnate. Before coming to earth as man, He was God in heaven. He had all, He created all. Now after being in a human body, He was raised still with a body, though an eternal one. He entered into heaven again, yet not as before, now He had a body, a glorious body. Now He is our Savior, our Bridegroom, our Lord. His resurrection means for us that one day we shall have a body like unto His glorious body. When we are born again, we receive from the Risen Lord His very life, and some day we shall also share in His Glory!
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Collision of God and Sin
"Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree." I Peter2:24
Jesus had to become a man in order to die on that tree. He had to be God to bare our sins on that tree. It was on that tree that God and sin clashed and crashed. The center of our salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much. It is at the Cross I will find life and can enter into union with God. In Revelation 5:12 it states that thousands upon ten thousands cried out "Deserving is the Lamb who was sacrificed to receive all the power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and majesty and blesing!"
Jesus had to become a man in order to die on that tree. He had to be God to bare our sins on that tree. It was on that tree that God and sin clashed and crashed. The center of our salvation is the Cross of Jesus, and the reason it is so easy to obtain salvation is because it cost God so much. It is at the Cross I will find life and can enter into union with God. In Revelation 5:12 it states that thousands upon ten thousands cried out "Deserving is the Lamb who was sacrificed to receive all the power and riches and wisdom and might and honor and majesty and blesing!"
Monday, April 2, 2012
The Curse and the Glory of the Cross
In Bible days the act of nailing or binding a person to a cross or tree was considered the cruelest and most shameful method of capital punishment. Anyone hanging on a tree according to Deuteronomy 21:23, is cursed by God. Because of the stigma and curse on anyone ‘hanged on a tree’ the idea of a crucified savior was foolishness to the Greeks and a stumbling block to the Jews (I Corinthians 1:23). Yet Jesus willingly took the curse and humiliation of the law and as Galatians 3:13 tells us "Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us." Thus He became the means of freeing people from the curse of Sin.
Jesus did not just ‘die’ in our place—He became a "Curse" of the worst kind, for you and for me. He received the total rejection by the Father so that we could be "accepted" in the beloved. He bore the utter darkness, died alone as the Father had to turn His back on His beloved and only Begotten Son so that we would not have to die alone.
"Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted Him to do, we are all purified from the sin by the offering that he made of His own body once and for all. Every Jewish priest performs his services every day and offers the same sacrifices many times; but these sacrifices can never take away sins. Christ however, offered one sacrifice for sins, an offering that is effective forever, and then He sat down at the right side of God. There He now waits until God puts His enemies as a footstool under his feet. With one sacrifice, then, He has made perfect forever those who are purified from sin". Hebrews 10:10-14 (The Good News New Testament).
The work of the Cross was to atone for the sin of the world, our sin. Atonement itself is life changing. Yet redemption is free through the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. All who accept His payment for their redemption become new creatures in Christ. This is the GLORY OF THE CROSS! Lives are altered and redirected by it!
But we cannot leave our Savior on the Cross. On the third day He rose, triumphant over sin, hell and death! Death has lost and Life has won! He lives, our Savior lives!
Have a Glorious Resurrection Day knowing we serve a Risen Savior! Praise God, He lives!
Jesus did not just ‘die’ in our place—He became a "Curse" of the worst kind, for you and for me. He received the total rejection by the Father so that we could be "accepted" in the beloved. He bore the utter darkness, died alone as the Father had to turn His back on His beloved and only Begotten Son so that we would not have to die alone.
"Because Jesus Christ did what God wanted Him to do, we are all purified from the sin by the offering that he made of His own body once and for all. Every Jewish priest performs his services every day and offers the same sacrifices many times; but these sacrifices can never take away sins. Christ however, offered one sacrifice for sins, an offering that is effective forever, and then He sat down at the right side of God. There He now waits until God puts His enemies as a footstool under his feet. With one sacrifice, then, He has made perfect forever those who are purified from sin". Hebrews 10:10-14 (The Good News New Testament).
The work of the Cross was to atone for the sin of the world, our sin. Atonement itself is life changing. Yet redemption is free through the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. All who accept His payment for their redemption become new creatures in Christ. This is the GLORY OF THE CROSS! Lives are altered and redirected by it!
But we cannot leave our Savior on the Cross. On the third day He rose, triumphant over sin, hell and death! Death has lost and Life has won! He lives, our Savior lives!
Have a Glorious Resurrection Day knowing we serve a Risen Savior! Praise God, He lives!
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