"And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail." Luke 16:17
Jesus was the perfect law keeper. He was the only person in
history that kept the law and he kept it on my behalf.
He took my place at the cross, all the judgment and wrath of
God was poured out upon my sin on the cross. He took my sin, he bore my
sicknesses, he was filled with my fears, he experienced my depression, and he
was overcome with my desperation and my separation from God.
I killed Jesus, it was my sin that he carried, God did not
kill His own son, I killed him, He took my place, experienced my death and
along with those physically present, I was the reason Jesus died at the Cross,
He took my place. God wept as He saw his son die in my place.
The great exchange is my dirty, sin stained life for His
deserved riches and glory.
We inherit in Him all the favor of God and
this power and life now dwells inside every believer.
Andrew Wommack brilliantly explains that
the debt has been paid and we can go free: -
The jot was not only one of the smallest
letters of the Hebrew alphabet, but also one of the most insignificant, being
sometimes deleted at the writer's pleasure. The tittle was only a mark or a
point on a line that helped distinguish one letter from another. The tittle
corresponds to our period or apostrophe. The point that Jesus is making is that
even the tiniest detail of the law would not pass away.
Christ fulfilled every jot and tittle of
the law. The law was ordained to life, but no one could keep it. So, God
Himself became flesh. He did what no sinful flesh had ever done. He kept the
law thereby winning the life of God as the prize for keeping the law. This
granted Him eternal life but before He could give it to us, we still had a debt
that had to be paid. This is similar to someone receiving the death penalty for
some hideous crime, then some billionaire leaves his whole estate to him. It
would do the condemned man no good. But if that same billionaire could somehow
take that man's place and die for him, then he could go free and enjoy his new
wealth. That's what Jesus did for us. He took our sins and gave us His
righteousness.
Jesus did much more than just obtain
eternal life for us, He also paid all the wages of our sins (Rom. 6:23). God literally
placed the condemnation, or judgment, that was against us upon His own Son.
Jesus' perfect flesh was condemned so our defiled flesh could go free. What a
trade! Since Jesus bore our sentence (condemnation), we don't have to bear it.
The debt has already been paid.
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