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Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. http://goo.gl/C9jbd0 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.
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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.