“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: ‘Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.’”
Galatians 3:13
My friends, it is such a painful thing to consider our sin and realize that it has tainted us to the very core of our being. The wounds are so deep; the pain is so real. We feel like lepers and cripples, desperately crying for the healing touch of Jesus. We cry with Paul as he asks for deliverance from these bodies of death. The bad news is bad. But the good news now calls to us with trumpets sounding!
Unfortunately, our good works in this world do nothing to save us or redeem us. If you don’t perfectly keep God’s law, you are under His curse. Praise be to God—He has redeemed us from that curse! It is not just that He perfectly kept the law in our place, but He also then became a curse for us! Only those under God’s curse are brought outside the city to be hung upon a tree.
That should be our tree, but He hung on it in our place. He credited His perfect righteousness to us, so that we are not only spared the penalty of sin but presented before God holy and blameless. Every bad thing that has marred our record was hung there with Jesus.
Unfortunately, our good works in this world do nothing to save us or redeem us. If you don’t perfectly keep God’s law, you are under His curse. Praise be to God—He has redeemed us from that curse! It is not just that He perfectly kept the law in our place, but He also then became a curse for us! Only those under God’s curse are brought outside the city to be hung upon a tree.
That should be our tree, but He hung on it in our place. He credited His perfect righteousness to us, so that we are not only spared the penalty of sin but presented before God holy and blameless. Every bad thing that has marred our record was hung there with Jesus.
Scripture Focus
Galatians 3:10-14
Insight
Let His wounds now speak to your wounds. It is finished! Your wounds are healed and will heal.
Bible In A Year
- 2 Chronicles 13-14
- Psalm 14
- Matthew 21