Sin killed Jesus

Isaiah 53:5-6

5 But he was pierced for our rebellion, crushed for our sins.

He was beaten so we could be whole. He was whipped so we could be healed.

6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away. We have left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet the Lord laid on him the sins of us all.

When Jesus came to earth, He left behind all the glory that He shared with the Father and was determined to obediently fulfill God's plan for reconciliation with those who chose to disobey Him. The burden of the sins of the entire human-race, yesterday, today and as long as when another human is born, was carried on His back. It was not something that Jesus, in His human form, could bear.

Yet, our Lord took that path toward Calvary. With His body pierced for our rebellion, beaten and whipped so that we can be healed, He never took His eyes off the cause. At that very moment when He exchanged His righteousness for our sins, He suffered the penultimate pain of being separated from God. Sin killed Him!

In his devotional entitled "Acquainted with Grief", Oswald Chambers wrote the following:

"Sin has made the foundation of our thinking unpredictable, uncontrollable, and irrational.

We have to recognize that sin is a fact of life, not just a shortcoming. Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life. The New Testament brings us right down to this one issue— if sin rules in me, God’s life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

There is nothing more fundamental than that. The culmination of sin was the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and what was true in the history of God on earth will also be true in your history and in mine— that is, sin will kill the life of God in us. We must mentally bring ourselves to terms with this fact of sin. It is the only explanation why Jesus Christ came to earth, and it is the explanation of the grief and sorrow of life."

Sin killed Jesus, that is, your sins and mine. If we do not keep our sin in check, it will also kill God's life in us!

Let's ask the Holy Spirit daily to rule in our life so that sin will have no place. As a reader from Philippines, Bro Pedo commented two blogs ago, "Let's keep the faith!"

God bless.

Steven