It is thrilling
to trace through the New Testament and find the word “made,” and
to observe how our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Creator of all,
humbled Himself, died on Calvary’s cross and arose again from the
dead to save, justify and glorify sinners.
St. Paul says of
Christ: “All things were created by Him and for Him” (Col. 1:16),
and St. John adds by inspiration: “All things were made by Him; and
without Him was not anything made that was made… The world was made
by Him” (John 1:3,10).
How wonderful it
is, then, that He, the Creator of all, came to be one with us —
yes, one of us! John tells us again that the Maker of all was “made
flesh” (John 1:14) and Paul declares that “when the fulness of
the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made
under the law…” (Gal. 4:4), that He “made Himself of no
reputation …and was made in the likeness of men” (Phil. 2:6,7).
In his letter to the Hebrews he adds that Christ was “made [for] a
little [while] lower than the angels for the suffering of death”
(Heb. 2:9). More than that, he declares that our Lord was “made a
curse for us” (Gal. 3:13) to redeem us from the curse of the law,
and that God “made Him to be sin for us…” (II Cor. 5:21).
Thus in one
stroke, at Calvary , our Lord, the great Creator, bore the penalty
for sin that would have sunk a world to hell, and for this “God
also hath highly exalted Him” (Phil. 2:9), having “raised him
from the dead and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly
places, far above all…” (Eph. 1:20,21). “God hath made that
same Jesus… both Lord and Christ” (Acts 2:36) so that now He has
been “made higher than the heavens” (Heb. 7:26).
As a result the
simplest believer in this mighty Savior is “made… accepted in the
Beloved One” (Eph. 1:6) and “made [to] sit… in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:6). He is “made the righteousness of God
in Him” (II Cor. 5:21), “that being justified by His grace, we
should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life” (Tit.
3:7).
How
God Saves Men
Believing Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
Believing Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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