Made Sin

 He was made sin for us. You read that right. The sinless Son of God, was made sin for us. The sinless Son of God was made like us. Not my words…

2Co 5:21  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin…

Heb 2:14  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same

Heb 2:17  Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren

MADE to be LIKE US.

If Jesus was made to be like us in ALL THINGS, then He was made EXACTLY as we are in our fallen state. HE was NOT given any special powers to defeat sin, powers we do not have access to. He wasn't made in a special flesh, a special spiritual leg up that we aren't given. We sit here and contemplate Jesus being able to remain sinless when we fail over and over again, even from a young age, and we convince ourselves that the only way Jesus could have not sinned was if He has something special, a special connection to the Father, a special ability to commune with Him that we are born without. But that CAN'T BE TRUE if He were made in all things like us. So how did He keep from sinning, where we fail? We can't fathom it try as we might. We insist on given Jesus super powers, of changing His flesh nature to something different than ours. Our flesh nature leads us into sin, Jesus' didn't so His had to be super flesh, protected flesh, changed flesh, special flesh something UNLIKE us in that one thing at least. But we are told IN ALL THINGS He was made like us! Come on! We need to reconcile this some how and it's NOT by giving Jesus something He didn't have! As soon as we give Jesus a supernatural flesh we strip the very humanity from Him that He took on in order to redeem us. Can so few comprehend that HE TRULY did take on our flesh and redeemed us in that flesh? THIS IS FAITH! This is believing in something when we truly cannot fathom it as being real. We NEED to have THIS FAITH, not make up something we can fathom as being realistic. If we do that we are against what Christ truly is, what He truly did! 

God help us to have the FAITH we need and not add super powers to our Savior so we can excuse our failure. 

All through our SAVIOR! 

(excerpt)

“The Faith of Jesus” Advent Review and Sabbath Herald 78, 5, pp. 72, 73.

“LET this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery [“a thing to be seized upon and held fast”] to be equal with God; but emptied himself, and took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.” Philippians 2:5-7. ARSH January 29, 1901, page 72.1

“For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” Hebrews 2:10. ARSH January 29, 1901, page 72.2

“Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor them that are tempted.” Verses 17, 18. ARSH January 29, 1901, page 72.3

Made “in all things” like unto us, He was in all points like as we are. So fully was this so that He could say, even as we must say the same truth, “I can of mine own self do nothing.” ARSH January 29, 1901, page 72.4

Of Him this was so entirely true that, in the weakness and infirmity of the flesh,—ours which He took,—He was as is the man who is without God and without Christ. For it is only without Him that men can do nothing. With Him, and through Him, it is written: “I can do all things.” But of those who are without Him, it is written: “Without me ye can do nothing.” ARSH January 29, 1901, page 72.5

Therefore, when He said, of himself, “I can of mine own self do nothing,” this makes it certain forever that in the flesh,—because of our infirmities which He took; because of our sinfulness, hereditary and actual, which were laid upon Him, and imparted to Him,—He was of himself in that flesh exactly as is the man who, in the infirmity of the flesh, is laden with sins, actual and hereditary, and who is without God. 

He came “to seek and to save that which was lost.” And in saving the lost, He came to the lost where they are. He put himself among the lost. “He was numbered with the transgressors.” He was “made to be sin.” And from the standpoint of the weakness and infirmity of the lost, He trusted in God, that He would deliver Him and save Him. Laden with the sins of the world, and tempted in all points like as we are, He hoped in God, and trusted in God to save Him from all those sins, and to keep Him from sinning. 

And this is the faith of Jesus: this is the point where the faith of Jesus reaches lost, sinful man, to help him. For thus it has been demonstrated, to the very fullness of perfection, that there is no man in the wide world for whom there is not hope in God: no one so lost that he can not be saved by trusting God. And this faith of Jesus, by which, in the place of the lost, He hoped in God, and trusted God for salvation from sin, and power to keep from sinning,—this victory of His it is that has brought to every man in the world divine faith, by which every man can hope in God, and trust God, and can find the power of God to deliver him from sin and to keep him from sinning. That faith which He exercised, and by which He obtained the victory over the world, the flesh, and the devil,—that faith is His free gift to every lost man in the world. And thus “this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” 

This is the faith of Jesus that is given to men. This is the faith of Jesus that must be received by men, in order for them to be saved. This is the faith of Jesus which, now in this time of the Third Angel’s Message, must be received and kept by those who will be saved from the worship of the Beast and his Image, and enabled to keep the Commandments of God. This is the faith of Jesus referred to in the closing words of the Third Angel’s Message: “Here are they that keep the Commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.”