Guilt and Shame
A brother in the Lord reminded me of this today. That the Roman’s in crucifying people it wasn’t just about physically killing them but also it was in shaming them as they died. Contrary to the pictures of Jesus on the cross that most of us have seen there was nothing covering Jesus’s privates. He hung naked on the cross. The cross was a place for the guilty to suffer, die and be shamed.
Think on this:
Jesus was made guilty. 2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Jesus was made to suffer. 1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
Jesus was shamed. Hebrews 12:2 looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jesus died. 1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
WHY???
That we may go free!
That we wouldn’t have to suffer!
That we don’t have to walk in shame!
That we may have eternal life!
If you have been born again you don’t have to live in your guilt, shame, suffering because He has paid the price for all of it on the cross. He was raised the 3rd day so that we can have life and that more abundantly in and through Him. It isn’t about if you deserve it or not because you don’t and none of us EVER could. It is a free gift and so let us take it, live it in it and share it with everyone we can.
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