Day 16 of 140, Personal Devotion Tweets

curse

The expletive was not deleted:

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. Amazing! God stooped so far to scoop us up

 

The Law’s curse is death. Harsh, but true. Death is the eventuality, the legal sentence every human being bears from Adam’s time to this day.

The Law states those who are hanged from a tree are accursed.

The Romans used the crucifixion to curse the criminals they brutally punished by death.

The death of Jesus was a threefold curse, complete and perfect in vile effect:

  • Jesus took upon himself the curse of becoming sin and bearing sin’s penalty.
  • Jesus took upon himself the historical denigration of being counted with ‘those hanged on a tree.’
  • Jesus took upon himself the jeer of the government which considered him as the worst of criminals even as it confessed it could find no guilt in him.

From the lowest of the low we who are found in Christ Jesus are rescued from the curse. Death’s hold is abolished, our history forgiven, the ‘law’ subjected to Grace.

Don’t miss out the gift of the expletive not being deleted for you.

About Robert Franklin

Father to six (three boys and three girls, three from the USA and three from Uganda) Husband to one (and intent on staying that way!) Son to Jesus-freak parents. Brother to three great people. Weak, sinful, enemy of God rescued for adoption by grace through faith.
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1 Response to Day 16 of 140, Personal Devotion Tweets

  1. Roberta Lee says:

    Love the thought that the curse has been deleted for me and absolutely hate the thought that so many people who are beloved by the Creator of all things refuse to embrace such love and curse it instead; a brain (and heart) numbing conundrum.

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