Saturday, August 28, 2021

We are usually taught that Jesus came to earth in the Incarnation to atone for our sins, but Jesus also came to fulfill the law. We are taught that Jesus was hated when he was on earth. You will suffer the same hatred. But if you study the parallel passage from "They hated me for no reason" it doesn't teach that he endured the hatred.When Jesus came to fulfill the law, he had to fulfill it in everything he spoke; he had to exercise his authority of the law by correcting abuses while walking the earth; When Jesus taught the people, he used the law to pronounce blessings and curses. The psalmist's intention to complain of the hatred of his opposition was to defeat them by speech. 22 Let the table that is set before them become a noose;
that it turns into retribution and deceit; may their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and may their backs bow forever.Pour out your anger on them; May the burning of your anger overwhelm them; leave their place; no one shall dwell in their tents ... Christ fulfilled the law by cursing wicked rulers; Christ obeyed the Father and spoke the law, covenants, curses, statutes, promises and ordinances; In the Sermon on the Mount, he pronounced blessings, cursed religious leaders, ordinances of salvation for the sick and the mute, and promised Lazarus' death.Christ was the only man who uttered the pronouncements and applied them perfectly in every situation.
The hatred Christ was exposed to is not the same reason we are hated. Christ had to face the hatred that reached the power of the devil to destroy his soul. He had to become a curse for us so that we could pronounce the curse in order to establish God's gracious gifts of joy, goodness, love and sadness, anger, pain and loss. We could shove it under our feet in pronouncements.So kindness cannot be turned into an ornament and anger cannot be turned into self-destructive hatred. Satan can no longer use our depravity to destroy our souls and bodies. The trials we face were overcome when Christ became a curse on us. Put the curse under our feet.
 

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