My OperaDying For A Condition
Saturday, January 5, 2008 12:35:37 PM
One thing that has made the message of redemption clearer to me over the past year or so is how I now see why Jesus had to die. Why did it have to be the Son of God, born of a virgin? Could not some other human being have made the same sacrifice and come up with the same results of redemption?
Of course we know that it would have been impossible because Jesus was the only man born without sin as He was not conceived by man. He was conceived by God and therefore was not born with the nature that each and every one of us was born with. Why was it absolutely necessary for the sacrifice for sin to be someone without that nature that was passed on to the human race by Adam?
It was necessary because the sin He died for was the sin of unbelief that Adam fell into when he tried to be like God, when he was actually already like God. He tried to become something he already was. He was already perfect and holy and just in God’s sight but he partook of the wrong tree to try and make himself like God.
I know the vast majority of us always looked at the sin that Jesus died for as our actions and deeds. We were always told that he died for our drinking, dancing, smoking, cursing, and anything else we did that was looked upon as bad things. That is still what is being taught today by the evangelical church, therefore they preach that you must stop doing what you are doing and do “good things” instead. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with doing good things, and we should be. But if you are doing them to try to gain favor with God, then you are wasting your time.
If Jesus took away the sin of the world, and that sin is our bad actions and deeds, then why do we still have those things? Why is it that we cannot overcome so we can become “good Christians” like the church constantly tries to hammer into people’s heads? The reason is that it is not for our actions and deeds that He died for, but to take away what Adam passed on to the human race.
He did not die for our actions because it’s quite obvious these things still exist. What He died for is a “condition” and not and “action”. He took away the “condition” that Adam had placed the human race under. That condition was Adam’s very nature that he took upon himself when he strayed from the Tree of Life to the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Simply put, he went into unbelief by trying to become something he already was. That nature was totally annihilated at the cross and a new race of human beings was born in Christ. That nature does not exist any longer. We now have a new nature that is a righteous nature because He took the entire human race (spiritually speaking) into Himself at the cross and rose again the third day with that new race.
Before the cross everyone was born with the nature of Adam (sin). After the cross everyone is born with the new nature (righteousness). Romans 3:10 (actually a quote from Psalms 14) says that “there are none righteous, no not one”. I believe if He was to come back and say something similar, He would now say “there are none unrighteous, no not one”. This is simply because He did the entire work apart from any of our involvement. When He saw the work was completed and His Father was satisfied with the required sacrifice to restore the human race back to His Father, He said “it is finished”. And that is exactly what it is…..finished. We all have been restored back to Father God and are completely secure in Him.
Of course we know that it would have been impossible because Jesus was the only man born without sin as He was not conceived by man. He was conceived by God and therefore was not born with the nature that each and every one of us was born with. Why was it absolutely necessary for the sacrifice for sin to be someone without that nature that was passed on to the human race by Adam?
It was necessary because the sin He died for was the sin of unbelief that Adam fell into when he tried to be like God, when he was actually already like God. He tried to become something he already was. He was already perfect and holy and just in God’s sight but he partook of the wrong tree to try and make himself like God.
I know the vast majority of us always looked at the sin that Jesus died for as our actions and deeds. We were always told that he died for our drinking, dancing, smoking, cursing, and anything else we did that was looked upon as bad things. That is still what is being taught today by the evangelical church, therefore they preach that you must stop doing what you are doing and do “good things” instead. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with doing good things, and we should be. But if you are doing them to try to gain favor with God, then you are wasting your time.
If Jesus took away the sin of the world, and that sin is our bad actions and deeds, then why do we still have those things? Why is it that we cannot overcome so we can become “good Christians” like the church constantly tries to hammer into people’s heads? The reason is that it is not for our actions and deeds that He died for, but to take away what Adam passed on to the human race.
He did not die for our actions because it’s quite obvious these things still exist. What He died for is a “condition” and not and “action”. He took away the “condition” that Adam had placed the human race under. That condition was Adam’s very nature that he took upon himself when he strayed from the Tree of Life to the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Simply put, he went into unbelief by trying to become something he already was. That nature was totally annihilated at the cross and a new race of human beings was born in Christ. That nature does not exist any longer. We now have a new nature that is a righteous nature because He took the entire human race (spiritually speaking) into Himself at the cross and rose again the third day with that new race.
Before the cross everyone was born with the nature of Adam (sin). After the cross everyone is born with the new nature (righteousness). Romans 3:10 (actually a quote from Psalms 14) says that “there are none righteous, no not one”. I believe if He was to come back and say something similar, He would now say “there are none unrighteous, no not one”. This is simply because He did the entire work apart from any of our involvement. When He saw the work was completed and His Father was satisfied with the required sacrifice to restore the human race back to His Father, He said “it is finished”. And that is exactly what it is…..finished. We all have been restored back to Father God and are completely secure in Him.
