Break Down of the Cross & Jesus Christ

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Hello, my name is Paul, and I am the voice for a ministry provided to you by Jim Pugh at God is Government, called Your Daily Bread, taken from Christ's teaching of the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6, verse 11. This is a daily devotion ministry focused not only on uplifting scripture, but scripture that will grow your spiritual connection with Christ. We hope that you receive these devotions to uplift you, encourage you, but most importantly, advance your knowledge base of the Holy Scriptures. Today's focus discussion will be on understanding the breakdown of the cross and Christ. Have you ever sat back and asked yourself the question regarding what really happened to Christ as he went to the cross and died for all of humanity's sins? Have you given any thought to exactly the changes that went on within Christ during this process? This is a topic that has never been addressed within any pulpit or from any Bible-teaching pastor or teacher. Scriptures tell us that Christ is both the Son of God and the Son of Man. He is a hundred percent like God and a hundred percent like man. In other words, Christ is actually two different natures in one body. In other words, Christ is living this human life experience without sin. He came to experience this physical life experience, so that he knew the life experience as a human. 1 Timothy 2, verse 5 states, For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. And in John 10, verse 30, it tells us that, I and my Father are one. However, on the day that Christ was to be crucified, something happened that has never been talked about except through Scriptures. In Galatians 3, verse 13 it states, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. For it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Paul is telling us that Christ became a curse for us. What does this mean? The curse is told to us in 1 Peter 2, verse 24. It says, Who his own self bare our sins, in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness, by whose stripes ye were healed. God's curse given to his son was to bear all the sins for all mankind. Wow! How could this happen? How do you measure the weight of such sins? One man, carrying all the sins of the world, even before those who had not been born, were carried by Christ throughout time. Sins are not physical weight, sins are energy-based, and therefore, what Christ did was to take all the evil energy in the form of sins to the cross, as part of his consciousness. But something else happened. Scripture tells us in 1 John 3 verse 9, Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him, and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. Therefore, Christ being God means that as he walked on this earth up to the time he was cursed, that he could not no sin. In other words, sin never dwelt inside of Christ. So as Christ approached the time of the cross, he knew that his no-sin nature would change and become sin, as told to us from the above scripture. Christ became sin for all mankind. This means a change had to take place inside of Christ. God had to leave him, because God cannot be with sin. Go back to 1 John 3, verse 9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, meaning Christ had committed zero sin before the cross. Then all of a sudden Christ became our sin. God left him for the period of time he hung from the tree, and Christ was absolutely 100% man. This change made Christ exactly like us, sinful and dead to sin. When Christ died on the cross, he had only the feelings and emotions of mankind, and could only remember his Father. He could not experience his Father for six hours while he hung on the cross. Christ even states in Matthew 27, verses 45 to 53 this. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani. That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Some of them that stood there, when they heard that, said, This man calleth for Elias. And straightway one of them ran, and took a sponge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink. The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent, and the graves were opened, and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. With the death of Christ came the same type of rebirth that he tells Nicodemus. Christ was rebirthed into God through regeneration, just like we are today, when we accept Christ by faith in his finished work and receive the gift of salvation. Except Christ was physically dead when this happened, when we are physically alive when it happens to us. Christ died and was put into the tomb. Once he physically died, God regenerated his cursed physical body into a regenerated physical body that people could see when he was resurrected from the tomb. But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order, Christ the first fruits, afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. Christ was mankind's prototype of the regenerated body. This is amazing. So, our entire process of salvation was experienced by none other than Christ. He was the prototype from God of this process, and through this process we now have the what, the means, and the process of eternal life, and able to go home from which we started. What an amazing process. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of the breakdown of the cross and Christ. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way.