As Christians, we often view our standing with God on how "good" of a day spiritually we are having. How good is good enough? We are Christians, but we are also sinners. Christ came to take the punishment and shame we deserved. "Christ has already borne the curses for our disobedience and earned for us the blessings of obedience. As a result, we now look to Christ alone not Christ plus our performance for God's blessings in our lives." In the Old Testament there was the law and believers were counted as righteous based on how well they kept the law. Jesus came to do away with the law and now we have righteousness based on what He did for us on the cross. Christ's righteousness is imputed to us. "The only way we can relate to God is through the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ." The grace of God is far greater than the guilt of our shame and this frees us up as Christians to not feel condemnation in what we do, but instead feel joy in what God did through His son!
I have had the vivid picture in my head of something my dad said Sunday in his sermon in Mark chapter 12. The picture of Christ walking ahead of the disciples to Jerusalem. The disciples were "amazed" because everyone knew that whatever was going to happen in Jerusalem wasn't going to be good. Jesus knew what was about to happen. For the first time his relationship with the Father was going to be broken, but he was first in the group. He sprinted to become a curse for us.
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