A Deeper Life In ChristExemplo

Jesus was cursed so that we get the blessing

The story of God’s blessing and curses can be traced back to the beginning of time, when God blessed humankind during creation with both fruitfulness and dominion over the earth. However, both Adam & Eve sinned against God through disobedience, and reaped curses from God upon themselves. God’s death penalty was temporarily averted when God killed an innocent animal in their place and clothed them with its skin. However, while some of their descendants could not escape God’s curses, other righteous people like Enoch, Noah and Abraham were blessed for their obedience. Abraham’s blessings were extended to his descendants by the grace of God!

Down the ages, God instituted the Mosaic Law, however, living under this Law did not bring blessing; actually it brought God’s curses. That is because to obtain God’s blessing under the Law, a person had to keep it perfectly—and no one could. God’s law was inviolable, and those who fail to keep even one point of the law falls under God’s curse. It is safe to conclude that since we broke God’s covenant by violating the Law, we deserve to receive the Law’s curse and God’s condemnation!

The curse of the law was death, and the cursed individual was to be hanged on a tree to justify God’s righteous judgment. Jesus becomes the substitutionary recipient of that curse, and He has delivered those under law from paying the penalty of death demanded by the law. Thus, Jesus has redeemed us by dying in our place, enduring the dreadful wrath of God against sins. The curse of God fell on Him as our substitute. He did not commit a single sin, however our sins were placed upon Him and He took the punishment meant for us.

What the Mosaic Law could not do, Jesus has done for us by paying the ransom price through shedding His precious blood in order to deliver us from slavery to liberty. Jesus has now redeemed us completely, freely, and irreversibly. Not only that, God had promised to bless all families of the earth in Abram. Jesus Christ, who was a direct descendant of Abraham, was that seed through whom God had promised to bless us when we receive Him by faith alone.

Jesus Christ was cursed in our place so that we will be blessed by God! Hallelujah!