Chapter 3
Jesus
Next we want to look at how our
destiny is intertwined with the death and life of Jesus. How did the things He accomplished
on the cross achieve our salvation and help us in our daily walk with God? What
would our lives be like if He hadn’t gone to the cross and been raised from the
dead? We will see that through Him and only through Him can we have the life
style that is pleasing to God.
What His death accomplished:
Become the righteousness of God:
21 He made Him who knew
no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the
righteousness of God in Him.
When Jesus died on the cross, sin
itself died; that is, the power it has over us died when He died. The reason He
became sin was so that we through Him might become the very righteousness of
God. What a marvelous trade - our sin for God’s righteousness! In God’s eyes,
we are just as righteous as Jesus … not because of anything on our part. It is
all because of what Jesus accomplished when He died on the cross for us.
Legally we are righteous in God’s eyes. Experientially we have a ways to go. We
have to rely on God and His working in our lives to bring it about. It is no
longer our nature to sin. When a nonbeliever sins, he/she is just following
his/her nature. When a believer sins, he/she is going against his/her nature.
If you could hear God speak to you, I believe this is what
He would say:
"My
child, My desire for you is true holiness. When My Son died on the tree, He did
so that you might walk in My righteousness. You are to be a light to the world
through My righteousness that they may see what I expect from My people. If
they cannot see what I want through you, then they make up their own
righteousness in their heads, and that is what they strive for. I will show
them through you what I desire in My people.”
36. Because God made
Jesus to be sin on the cross, then I have become the righteousness of God in
Him. I am no longer a sinner. I am righteous in His sight.
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