Redeemed from the Curse
When
the fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made
under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive
the adoption of sons. Galatians 4:4, 5.
Any
man in all the world, who knows guilt, by that very thing knows also what
Jesus felt for him and by this knows how close Jesus has come to him.
Whosoever knows what condemnation is knows exactly what Jesus felt for him
and so knows how thoroughly Jesus is able to sympathize with him and to
redeem him.
Bearing
guilt, being under condemnation and so under the weight of the curse, Jesus,
a whole lifetime in this world of guilt, condemnation, and the curse, lived
the perfect life of the righteousness of God, without ever sinning at all.
Any man knowing guilt, condemnation, and the curse of sin, and knowing that
Jesus actually felt in His experience all this just as man feels it; can, by
believing in Jesus, know the blessedness of the perfect life of the
righteousness of God in his life to keep him from ever sinning at all.
"Christ
hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us,"
Galatians 3:13. His being made a curse is not in vain: it accomplishes all
that was intended by it in behalf of every man who will receive it. He is
the author of eternal salvation and is able to save to the uttermost all who
come unto God by Him.
The Consecrated Way to Christian
Perfection, pgs. 30, 31 |
