The Power of the Crusifixion
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The Basics of Easter
The Basics of Easter
11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”
12 But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.”
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—
The story of the crusifixion is the miracle of a cursed people became a blessed people - through no work of their own.
It is the story of a people go from Condemnation to Justification. From death to life. From darkness to light. From guitly to forgiven.
It starts with a curse
It starts with a curse
10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”
Let lay down the facts:
God is holy:
8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
God is Good:
18 And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.
God is just:
8 For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Gos is perfect:
4 “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.
Thats God. What about man?
10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”
13 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 in their paths are ruin and misery,
17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Those are pretty harsh words. And in tghe face of such horrible accusations we justify ourself with self righteousness and insists that he is a good person.
But here is where the Law comes in and the curse that follows it.
The Law shows us that God’s account of man as being totally unrighteous is in fact true.
We look at the commandments and we discover that we are liars, thieves, blasphemers, adulterers in our hearts, coveters.
and as we have read:
10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.”
add this to
10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.
And we find ourselves in a horrible situation - a curse. You see, the curse of the Law is the laws constant condemnation.
It cannot help us, it can only condemn us, and living all our lives under that condemnation is a curse because the condemned do not know peace. The condemned do not know freedom. The condemned do not know joy.
Then Jesus Comes
Then Jesus Comes
in light of mans hopeless situation, Jesus comes on a daring mission. A mission of reconciliation.
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.
But there is a problem.
The truth of what i just stated still stands: God is Holy - man is unholy.
This makes reconciliation seem impossible - how can a holy God have fellowship with unholy man?
13 You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
For there to be reconciliation and peace, sinful man must somehow be brought out of his sinful state and made holy and perfect himself.
And that is what God did.
This amazing action of taking man out of his sinful estate and being placed into God’s holy esate is called:
Redemption
Redemption
14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
When something is redeemed it means that it is delivered (set Free) by a payment.
Exactly the same as a ransom - in a ransom a person will be delivered (set free) only when a payment has been made. When the payment is made that person has just been redeemed.
There was an exchange, payment for freedom.
We are slaves to sin. The Law proves this. we live under its constant curse of condemnation and fear.
Jesus came to make payment for our freedom.
This payment is what easter is all about.
But our ransom payment was in money, Rands, dollors, pounds. If it were we coud pay our own ransom.
Instead the Law demanded something far more precious.
18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
Amazing!!
And what is the result?
The result is that we are no longer under the curse of the Laws condemnation.
1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
And through the sacrifice of Jesus a man has found peace with God.
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And yet as amazing as all this is, God’s still not finished.
We are still not out of the woods yet.
Why? because there is still the problem of mankind sinful nature to deal with.
you see, the redemption is might because it cleanses us from sin, but there has to be something else or else its a pig in a parlour situation.
A pig, no matter how well cleaned will always return to the mud and get dirty again - its the nature of the pig.
And man, unless his nature is changed, will always return to sin.
11 Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.
What good is all this if we still end up living the same dead lives?
God had a powerful plan to rectify this as well, but that part would have to wait 3 more days.... and so will you.