27/03/2023
📌THE NEWNESS OF LIFE - RKMB📌
If Christianity were all about salvation from sin, there wouldn't have been the need for Jesus to rise from the dead.
His death on the cross would have been enough; because it paid for our sins and guaranteed complete propitiation-(Propitiation means “averting the wrath of God by the offering of a gift.” It refers to the turning away of the wrath of God as the just judgment of our sin by God’s own provision of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross) 1John 2:2, 4:10
However, that's redemption, and not Christianity!
Redemption refers to saving someone by paying a price.
When Jesus died, He paid the price for man's redemption with His own life;
He did that for all humanity; not for Christians. The Christian isn't the man that Christ died for. 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
When Jesus hung on the cross, in the mind of God, we were all hanging there too (in Him), for He was our representative.
When He said it's finished and gave up the ghost, we all died in Him.
Romans 5:18-19
Now, here's the big thing, which satan didn't see coming and even the Angels marveled at and seek to look into it: Christianity is based on the resurrection of Jesus, and not on His death. The Resurrection of Jesus Christ gave us something far beyond redemption;
The Resurrection of Jesus ushered us into a newness of life.
We've been raised up together with Christ (Ephesians 2:6)
Romans 10:9, It lets us to know that salvation comes by believing in the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the subsequent confession of His Lordships.
A Christian is one who identifies with the resurrected Christ. The Christian has no past. 2 Corinthians 5:17 meaning that he is a new species, one that never existed before. James 1:18 says,
Being born again, therefore, you're not the redeemed; you're the fruit of the redemptive work of Christ. Redemption was consummated with His death, but Christianity came from the resurrection.