Identification He who was once made sin for me, has made me His Righteousness now. I was crucified with Him. I was identified with Him in His shame and His deep agonies on the cross. More than that, God not only put my sin upon Him and made Him sin with my sin, but He put me upon Him. He was taking my place. He was acting in my stead. It was my sin that stripped Him naked. It was my sin that caused the crown of thorns to be put upon His brow. It was my sin that drove the nails into His hands and feet. It was Love that was taking my place and suffering in my stead that I might be ransomed out of the authority of darkness and the power of sin and spiritual death. I can say I died with Him; that when He died on the cross He partook of my spiritual death, and I was identified with Him in that spiritual death. It was as though I had been there in person and we had left His body together. When He died on the cross, He and I went to the place where I should have gone alone, but He went with me as my Substitute. He went with me to suffer in my stead. He was bearing my sin with me, that old spiritually dead self. He suffered there until the claims of justice against me had been satisfied and there was no longer any charge against me. My spiritual death and union with Satan were wiped out. And then He was justified in Spirit. His justification was for me, for you see, He went there for me. He didnt go there on His own account. He went on my account, and as soon as He was justified, He was Recreated-made alive in spirit, and that wonderful scripture in Acts 13:33, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee, was made real. Right there in those awful surroundings He was Born Again. He had become the very Righteousness of God right there. And now I can understand Eph. 2:10: We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. That is the legal side of the New Birth. In the mind of justice, we were Recreated down there at the time Christ was, because He is the Head of the Body, the Firstborn from among the dead. He was the first person ever Born Again. In His birth, the whole Body of Christ had the legal work accomplished for them. Then He conquered the adversary, but in the mind of justice I was with Him. When He stripped Satan of his authority and dominion, it was your victory and mine. We were there in the mind of justice. We put our heel upon the neck of the enemy; we stripped him of his authority; we left him defeated and broken, and then we were raised together with Christ. Satan is conquered. The New Birth has been accomplished. The New Creation, in the mind of justice, has become effective, and now we are not only raised together with Christ, but we are seated with Him. In the mind of justice, every member of the Body of Christ is seated at the right hand of the Majesty on high. In the mind of justice we are utterly one with Him. We are complete in Him. All that He did, He did for us. He is the Head of the Body, and as the Head of the Body, He cannot be exalted so high but what the Body is there with Him sharing in His glory, sharing in all of His victories. Eph. 1:4-6 gives us a preview of our Redemption: Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him: in love having foreordained us unto adoption as sons through Jesus Christ unto himself. He did this according to his own good will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the beloved.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 06:44:45 +0000
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