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Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
2 Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
Notice the phrase “in Him.”
This means that our becoming the righteousness of God is in a sphere–in Him.
To be in Him is to be in an organic union with Him.
By virtue of this organic union, we have become (Gk. aorist tense) the righteousness of God.
In this verse we can see our new, organic “I,” joined to the Person of Christ.
He is now our person, our righteousness, our standing, our foundation, our supply, our reactions, our thought-life, our feelings, our choices.
Christ is our life!
I can participate constantly in all that belongs to this One because I am in an organic union with Him.
I am joined to Him.
And there is a great fact in this union–He was made sin once and for all on the cross for us.
Second Corinthians 5:21 reveals that He did not know sin, but that He was made sin on our behalf.
So the total sin problem, including my sinful acts in the plural and indwelling sin in the singular, was borne by Him on the cross.
He bore the penalty and the judgment for it once and for all.
Sin and sins all fell on Him Isa. 53:4-6).
Now, for every man, the cross of Christ and the blood of Christ solve the entire realm of the sin problem.
He bore the sin, He was made sin, and consequently He has all the sin.
The fact that He was made sin (aorist tense) is part of the double transfer in 2 Corinthians 5:21.
Our sin was transferred to Him, and He took the judicial judgment for it and paid the price for it with condemnation, judgment, and death.
He received the sentence for sin.
It was paid for, once and for all.
He has the sin, that we might become the righteousness of God in union with Him.
Now in this new “I,” in union with Him, we have become the righteousness of God.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Nancy Brown In Passing of her Daughter
Bill Lawhead – Hospice
Charlene Shiflett
Darlene Thaxton – Improving
Richard Blount
The Graham Family – Brandon’s Friends
Amy Garner’s Mother/Dad
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Carol Lawhead’s Brother
Charles Rambles
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray for Grace
James Garner’s Brother, G’Son, & Daughter
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Vickie – Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Michael Stanley
Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Rod Gustafson – Cancer
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sheila Simmons Cousin
Tom Witcher