08/29/20 AWAKE FROM YOUR STUPOR

08/29/20 AWAKE FROM YOUR STUPOR

When you find yourself shackled by overwhelming evil, it may be too late to surrender to the LOVE and LIGHT of God and HIS WORD.

2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2
20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.
21 For he hath made him to be sin (*the sin sacrifice) for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
6:1 We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

dlg note... The phrase "he made him (to be) sin" is an unfortunate translation, since the same use of the word in the Bible is translated "a sin sacrifice," over 100 times, by the translators. Jesus is the propitiation, satisfaction, appeasement for our sin. Jesus took away our sins and sin as the Sacrifice for sin. He was not punished nor did He pay our penalty. He, as the Sacrificial Lamb of God, atoned for our sins and sin.

I once taught that Jesus actually became our sin, but by studying God's word I came to understand that Jesus could not become filth, rebellion, perversion, which is not simply a repugnant thought, but one that defies the nature and work of Jesus. Jesus did not have to become actual sin in order to deliver us from sin. He became the "sin sacrifice," as the word "sin" is used in the Scriptures. Jesus was the "ransom" (1 Tm. 2:6).

As a ransom, propitiation, satisfaction, sacrifice, atonement, Jesus did not have to become rebellion, guilt, filth, perversion, corruption. Indeed, Jesus could not have become any of those things and remained the Spotless Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world.

I realize that some folks will not grasp or accept this view (which view is also held by many reputable Christians and Biblical scholars). You may choose to believe that Jesus became rape, pedophilia, bestiality and every other sinful act or thought. I DO NOT. And I don't have to throw away my Bible in order to hold to the unchanging holiness of Christ. It is Biblical to say that Jesus became the SIN SACRIFICE.