We are told that we must receive the life of Yeshua into our hearts, and that is certainly true, but we must also receive his death as well... This is the meaning of taking up your cross. It is the death of Yeshua in your place that releases you from the curse of the law (מִקִּלְלַת הַתּוֹרָה), that is, spiritual death, as it says, the Messiah 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 (Gal. 3:13). By faith we lay hands on him and lean into his death, confessing our guilt and sin and receiving his sacrifice as offered up for our sake. Our sins are transferred to his account, and his righteousness is transferred to ours. This is the idea of our justification, -- just-if-id never sinned, and just-if-id always obeyed... As it is written, God made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we would become the righteousness of God (δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ) in Him (2 Cor. 5:21). It is the righteousness of God, not our own. We receive the death benefits of Yeshua, who has bequeathed to us the great inheritance of everlasting life and heaven itself... Our identification with His death makes us free from the law, not in the sense that we are free to sin, but rather free to live in a different order of relating to God, a new and a better covenant, whereby we are given power over sin and death. I have been crucified with the Messiah: It is no longer I who live, but Messiah who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness came through the terms of the law, then Messiah died for no purpose (Gal. 2:20-21). Trusting in Yeshua gives us access by faith into grace so that we are fully and forever accepted in Gods Presence...
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:11:43 +0000
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