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  From:  David (DavidABrown)    Feb-20 7:43 am  
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WHAT CHRIST WAS MADE FOR US 

And because He was made all these things for us, we can "be made the righteousness of God in Him" (5:21). 

"And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross" (Philippians 2:8). 

We can never fully comprehend the condescension of the infinite Creator when He became man. He who was "very God of very God," as the Old Creeds expressed it, humbled Himself and was made many things for the sake of man's redemption. Note the following remarkable summation of what He "was made." 

"The Word was God," and yet "the Word was made flesh" (John 1:1,14). He had created human flesh for Adam, then finally for Himselfnot sinful flesh, of course, but only "in the likeness of sinful flesh" (Romans 8:3). 

He who had been in the very "form of God . . . took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men" (Philippians 2:6-7). 

He was so completely human as to be "made of a woman" (Galatians 4:4), thus partaking of the complete human experience (apart from sin) from conception to death. 

He also was "made under the law" (v.4), though He, as the lawgiver, was above the law. 

Although He completely fulfilled the law, He was "made [the] curse for us," in order to redeem "us from the curse of the law" (3:13). 

Then, on the cross, God even "hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin" (II Corinthians 5:21), thus bearing the guilt and punishment for the sins of all the world. 

Finally, as our text reminds us, He "became [same word in the Greek as `was made'] obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." 

And because He was made all these things for us, we can "be made the righteousness of God in Him" (5:21). 

Henry M Morris 

Days of Praise" for February 20, 2004 

Source: Days of Praise Devotional and Bible Commentary brought to you by: 
Institute for Creation Research 

http://www.icr.org/pubs/dop/ 




David A. Brown
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   From:  ~Sassy~ (PARRISH24)    Feb-20 10:06 pm  
To:  David (DavidABrown)    (2 of 2)  
 
  812.2 in reply to 812.1  
 
John 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
14 I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
15 As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
17 Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
18 No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. 

John 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 

Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 




 

 

 
 
 
 
  
  
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