Psalm 58:3
"The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies."
Some say, "You know, I am not a thief!" But, oh, yes you are! We all are. You have robbed God of His glory from the time you came forth from the womb because you came forth speaking lies. We all have.
But, if you are the LORD's, He bought you with His precious blood, with His obedient suffering unto death, and He will cause you to see that. He will cause you to see that just going your own way is enough for Him to send you to hell but, "...He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him." (Isaiah 53:5) Now, this peace spoken of is not some subjective peace where people run around trying to feel at peace with God. No, the chastisement is what was required by God that would secure a legal peace by a legal justice before Him. What it would take for God to be just and declare us righteous before Him, what it would take for the price owed for sin to be paid: "And, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things unto Himself; by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in Heaven." (Colossians 1:20)
In Heaven is God the Father and on earth are His elect in the flesh. We were reconciled to God by Christ, by the blood of His cross, which means His death. The chastisement that the children of God deserve, fell upon Him. And, notice: "...with His stripes we are healed." By Christ's obedient suffering unto death we were healed!
If someone asked me when I was saved, do you know what I would tell them? I would say, "Some 2,000 years ago, when it pleased God to take my sin and put it to the account of the Savior and take His Righteousness and impute it to this poor sinner's account." I was not even there, I was not even born yet. That shows that Salvation is completely outside of myself, in Christ alone. Outside of anything I do, or did, or didn't do. Outside of anything I think, outside of anything I feel or anything I don't feel. But in time I was brought by His Spirit to see that I was a sinner for whom He died, to see the imputation of Christ's earned Righteousness applied to my account by the Father at the moment of Christ's death on the cross at Calvary. He is my Peace and Rest. We do not have to deal with a God that has to be satisfied again every day by what we do or don't do, it was finished at the cross and in Christ we rest!
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