WHAT ABOUT SIN? - 3

“HOW GOD DEALT WITH SIN”

One of the reasons why I love God is because he is WISDOM. I do not mean that he has wisdom, but HE IS WISDOM!

This is because before Adam gave sin the entrance into this world, God already made a plan to deal with sin. This plan is called the plan of redemption. God’s plan was to redeem man back to himself by defeating sin and death as well as Satan their sponsor.

God decided to deal with sin according to his own eternal counsel. He chased Adam away from the Garden in order for Adam not to eat of the tree of life because if he does, the nature of sin that was now in man will become permanent.

God chose to confound the wisdom of this world with his wisdom. So he dealt with sin himself. Prior to this, he had destroyed the then world of sin by the flood. But sin did not cease to be, because sin is rooted in the soul of man. The flood could not wipe off the sin of man; it could only wipe off the sinners.

Therefore God became man, and this man was called Jesus Christ, who destroyed sin and its empire.

So when the angel of good tidings came to the Virgin Mary, he said “thou shall call his name Jesus because he shall save his people from their sins”

Jesus means SAVIOR, and there is no other thing that man needs to be saved from, other than sin.

So when there was no man fit to live a life free of sin and to stand in gap for the world out of their chains of sin, God came down himself. God entered into a virgin woman, and came out as Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Jesus was the man that became the sacrifice for the sin of the world. John the Baptist shouted and said “behold the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”. The sole mission of Jesus Christ was to TAKE AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD. His major work was to save the world from the dominion of SIN and reconcile man back to God.

This he did by laying down his life on the cross thousands of years ago. He paid the price that WE OWED. He conquered the trio - sin, death and Satan. He took away the keys from hell. He set men free from the ancient shackles of sin and evil. Man was restored to his original position with the Godhead.

Paul said “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him”

Now bear in mind that when the bible says that JESUS KNEW NO SIN… It actually means he is not polluted by the sin of Adam. This is because he was born of the HOLY SPIRIT; he was not born of ADAM. All men are like ADAM, we all have the corrupt soul and body which is just sufficient for us to keep committing sin. However, Jesus Christ has no link with what we call the Adamic Nature. That is why he was called the last Adam and the firstborn son of God. He ended the race of Adam and started a new race of Sons. He was 100% God and 100% Man while on earth. His configuration was a God-Man configuration. So there was no way he could sin. He “knew” no sin means he has no “relationship” with sin. “Knowing” means “Having an intercourse”. Jesus Christ was just the perfect and right person who saved us all from our sin.

So he died as the propitiation for our sin.  We became eternally forgiven through his death.

We became saved. This is because when he died, he died as our sin. He became our sin in the garden of Gethsemane. The sin of the whole world was embedded in him. So when he went to the cross, he nailed sin to the cross. The same sin that brought death and opened portal unto several evil spirits due to the disobedience of Adam in the beginning, was destroyed by Christ.

As far as we are concerned right now, sin has been dealt with.

As far as we are concerned right now, sin has been destroyed.

As far as we are concerned right now, all human has been forgiven; men just need to receive this forgiveness by believing the Gospel.

How did God deal with sin? He exchanged OUR SIN for CHRIST’S RIGHTEOUSNESS!

Glory be to God!