Rhapsody of Realities TeeVo
Thursday, September 17th, 2020;
Pastor Chris
NO NEED TO GO TO HELL
(Jesus Was Your Substitute In Death And Resurrection)
TO THE BIBLE
Isaiah 53:5 AMPC
“But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our guilt and iniquities; the chastisement [needful to obtain] peace and well-being for us was upon Him, and with the stripes [that wounded] Him we are healed and made whole.”
LET’S TALK
There’s absolutely no need for you or anyone else to go to hell! This is the message of the Cross: The Lord Jesus suffered and endured the pain and shame of the Cross, not because of His sins or for Himself, but for us. He took our place and bore the punishment for sin on our behalf. While on the Cross, bearing the burden of our sins, He cried out in anguish, “…My God, my God, why have you deserted me?” (Mark 15:34 CEV).
Habakkuk 1:13 tells us that God is holy and doesn’t look at iniquity. That’s why God turned His back on Jesus because our sins were laid on Him. Jesus never wanted the separation from the Father as a result of our sins on Him; it’s the reason He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:39). Yet, the Father’s will prevailed: Jesus died on the Cross and descended into hell.
Upon taking all the punishment that was necessary, the Bible says Jesus was justified in the Spirit (1 Timothy 3:16) and was raised back to life. He was raised to life for our justification: “Who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification” (Romans 4:25). To be justified means to be acquitted of guilt, to be declared righteous. He was our substitute in death as well as our substitute in resurrection. When He died, you died with
Him; when He was buried, you were buried with Him. When God raised Him from the dead, you were also raised together with Him in newness of life!
Now, you’re sin-free, at complete liberty to serve the Lord and live for Him in glory and righteousness. You’ve become not just righteous, but also the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. Such a blessed reality!
GO DEEPER
Romans 5:8
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
2 Corinthians 5:21
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
Romans 6:3
“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:”
SPEAK
The Word of God is the light of my life, and by the Word, I see and take hold of my righteousness and inheritance in Christ, walking in holiness and manifesting the glory of God everywhere. Now I stand justified forever in God’s presence, with dominion over sin and circumstances, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
DAILY BIBLE READING
ONE YEAR
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Galatians 3:1-14, Songs of Solomon 3-5
TWO YEAR
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Luke 23:13-25, 2 Samuel 7-8
ACT
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