The Maker Of All Made Sin For Us
by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
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).
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