"Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came on all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came on all men to justification of life." (Romans 5:18)
God's Word tells us that Adam, the first man, sinned for nothing (Romans 5:19), even though he was in a state of life, happiness and perfection, being the future heir of the universe, bringing corruption, condemnation and death to the whole world, and that because of him also "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23), for being the first matrix of the human race, he transmitted corruption to all his descendants. Although man fell, in the beginning, God had already designed a plan of salvation for the human race from before the foundation of the world, providing a substitute to pay the terrible price of transgression of sin.
It is written that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23), and that "without the shedding of blood there is no remission (forgiveness) of sins" (Hebrews 9:22). From the first temporary Covenants that God made with man over the generations to precede His great Work of Salvation, everything was always validated with blood, and that should be the blood of an innocent, immaculate and pure being, like lambs and calves without blemish (Leviticus 4:35), foreshadowing the future perfect sacrifice of Jesus, the Passover Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world (John 1:29). The Mosaic Covenant, which was temporary, began its exercise with the shedding of the blood of a lamb (Exodus 12:23 ), which brought deliverance from death to Israel, prefiguring the work of Christ, and demonstrating in figure that the sins of the world would be forgiven through the shedding of the blood of an innocent. But the Law Covenant was temporary, and the blood of the animals sacrificed within it had no power to actually take away sins, but only to forgive them for cover up until the time of the True Sacrifice, for it is clear that even before the birth of Christ , the transgressions of the First Testament were still without remission (Hebrews 9:15). The effectiveness of the Old Testament sacrifices was only for the covering of sins, so that the Wrath of God, which comes by His Righteous Justice, would not destroy them completely, so that these sacrifices only spared them in view of the Work of Christ that would come, but they could not permanently remit their sins.
After the time of the Law, having been manifested the complete proof of its ineffectiveness, in itself, regarding the redemption of man, when the fullness of time arrived, God sent His Son into the world, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that through Him He might bring to light the truth concerning His Perfect Justice, and demonstrate to all the Designs that He had proposed in His Heart from eternity for the world: His Immutable Love, His Grace and Mercy that last forever. Jesus being born, being fully God, but also fully man, was begotten holy, of divine and incorruptible seed, to become the New Adam and New Matrix of the human race, which would then be born first of the spirit and not of natural birth, and to be the Founder of a New Covenant between God and the world, which would be the final Covenant of Eternal Salvation, which would be efficient and perfect for the salvation of all those who believe.
Jesus, being God, and also being man, emptied Himself of all His divine powers that were rightfully His, and keeping only His divine Identity, but without divine powers, became like all of us, although without sin, submitting to total dependence on God and the Holy Spirit, submitted to all the conditions and implications to which we are all also subject, except the sin: need for food, hydration, breathing, the temperature, vital energy, the fragility of the physical body, the psychic, emotional and moral fragility, and human feelings. He was born of a woman, developed, grew up, interacted with people, dreamed, desired, loved, suffered, served others, obeyed parents, obeyed civil authorities, prayed, heard the Word of God, submitted to the universal ordinance from work, felt sadness, suffered from darkness, rebellion and hatred in the hearts of the world, was subjected to hunger, thirst, temperature and physical exhaustion, was separated, rejected, reviled, blasphemed, mocked, spat on, despised, discriminated and judged unworthy. All the pains and tribulations that we suffer, He also suffered, and even more than we do! He was not disloyal, to all conditions to which all men are subject, He also subjected Himself, and to a greater extent, except sin. All that He kept of His divine nature was His Identity, for He could not but be who He is eternally. He did not use all of His unlimited powers as a partaker of the Father's divinity. On the contrary, he emptied himself and became like any of us, even if holy and sinless, full of weaknesses, subject to sorrows, pains and limitations, he suffered everything that any human being suffers, in a matter of experiencing suffering, and came under complete dependence on God's grace, guidance and intervention.
He was the New Adam who would resurrect and regenerate the human race, being harshly tested and proven at all times because of the Justice of God, to the point of having the Devil himself as a personal persecutor in each one of his steps along His journey. If you think you suffer, He suffered everything you are suffering, even if it was somehow different, and to a much greater extent. For Jesus there could be no faults, He was being judged with the Judgment of Redemption. He had no other way out than absolute impeccability and perfection. For Him everything was difficult, everything was painful, it took a long time to come and it was full of sacrifices. But He didn't turn back, He never ever gave up depending on God's Intervention and His Providence. He never ever sought His own will, but always submitted to the Father's will. He never said anything about himself, but he always conveyed everything the Father told him. He, even being God, the God the Son, made himself nothing for God to be everything in him. He even forgot His own Name so that only the Father's Name might be magnified in Him. There is no record, at least in the Gospels, that He mentioned His own Name throughout His probationary life on earth, for only after His resurrection and overcoming everything did He do this (Acts 9:5). He never exalted himself, but always chose suffering in favor of the prevalence of justice. He was never the first, but always the last and servant of all. He never exercised political dominion throughout His mission on Earth, but He lived as a carpenter and Preacher of Justice throughout His Walk. He made himself weak that we might be strong, he made himself sad that we might be happy, he made himself poor that through him we might all be rich in heavenly treasures, he made himself despised that we might be full of honor, became shame so that we might be glorified, and at last, having lived the most perfect life that can ever be, innocent, perfect, pure, just, and holy, and having fulfilled His Ministry, having preached and borne witness to the Truth, and to all Unchangeable Will of God, having suffered and fulfilled all things, having sinlessly submitted to all the implications for our redemption as sinners, He gave Himself to suffer the condemnation of our despicable sins in our place.
He, being just and holy, became a curse so that we that we might be blessed, he became unclean that we might be holy, he became unjust that we might be righteous, he was made wicked that we might fear God, he was made condemned that we might be innocent, he was made death that we might have life, and he was done nothing that we might be everything. All this because not His, but our sins, in that dark moment of sacrifice, were being poured out upon His innocent soul, and imputed to the account of His perfect life, and our filthy iniquities thrown into His holy body. He was being "wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was on him; and with his stripes we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5). All kinds of pain, anguish, contempt, indignity, torment, sadness, loneliness, abandonment, insult, contemptuous affronts, mockery, rejection, shadows, darkness, dread, of astonishment, of fear, and death eagerness passed over and crushed the soul of the Lord during all those hours of darkness and thick shadow of death until the payment of the last sin of all men, of all times of the world, until it poured out the last drop of His innocent blood, spilling to the last source of His impeccable life. There, for our sakes, God had to treat His Son as a miserable sinner, even though he was innocent and holy, and because of our perversities, hatreds, contempt, unbelief, rejection of the truth, deviations, follies, and murders, the Almighty had to apply to His Son the Judgment resulting from His Just Justice. There Jesus ceased to be Himself, and became me, and became you! He suffered what you and I should have suffered, the Eternally Imprisoning Judgment and Endless Death. And as the size of our sins is one of infinite contempt and perversity, committed against an infinitely Just and Holy God, all that would fit us would be an Endless Death. And this is exactly what Jesus suffered on the cross for all of us, and for the whole world, even for those who will not accept salvation. And suffering all this, in all this condition, He kept in obedience to the Father, and was Faithful to His last drop of blood. He didn't fail! He paid off all our debt and won! He won for me, for you and for the whole world, for anyone who wants to accept His Sacrifice, made in the most absolute proof of the Eternal and Immutable Love of God. In Christ, God gave His most absolute and final proof of Love for the world. It's not that he will give this proof yet, in Christ, He has already proved His Love to the world forever, before all the armies of holy beings from the heavenly myriads of eternity.
Jesus submitted to everything He had to submit to, and He never committed sin at all. The trial of the cross was much more difficult than all his hard trials throughout his life, more difficult than the dark temptation of the desert. There on the cross the Devil invested all the power he had to invest. The Enemy launched upon the Lord the deadliest and most evil attack that he had ever planned and fortified with all the possibilities of the powers of darkness since the foundation of the world. If in the hard trials that we Christians face, the Enemy is only allowed to invest a small fraction of all the powers he has, there on the cross, against the Lord, he was allowed to invest everything, all his power, so that Perfect Justice of God was fully fulfilled. But the Lord remained faithful. If the Lord, as the Son of God, wanted to make use of His Eternal Power, He had the power to come down from the cross and slay the Devil. But He didn't, because it would mean our Eternal Doom, and we would have no more salvation forever. He remained submissive to the Greater Will of God, and suffered everything silently, resisting absolutely nothing, in all the temptations and demonic affronts he was suffering, tempting him to react and come down from the cross. He remained, with infinite humility and love, that the Justice of God might be fulfilled not against us, but in our favor. He submitted to everything until the end, when after having fulfilled the Word of God and having won, he consummated our Salvation forever!
The Lord thus died, in this most perfect love, purity, justice, holiness and obedience, that by this Perfect Sacrifice we might be forgiven not one day, but for ever and ever of all our sins. And not only forgiveness, but to gain a new birth in spirit, of incorruptible seed, in righteousness and holiness, and so we also have the victory over sin itself by perseverance in faith and permanence in the holy Paths of Light. Now we can walk in newness of life and victorious interior transformation that makes us live forever and be more than conquerors through Jesus, the one who loved us! And since death could not contain the Lord of Heaven, And because He won, He raised again, by the Right Hand of God, in power and great glory, having been made Lord of angels and High Priest of Our Confession, that of a New Covenant, which reaches not only Israel, but which is between God and the whole world, between those who receive the Testimony of the Son of God by Faith; A covenant that has an eternal effect and will last forever.
Jesus' sacrifice was perfect and effective, He fulfilled all the implications of the Law and Righteous Justice of God for the salvation of the world. This means that God was satisfied with the life of Jesus, and that His sacrifice was sufficient and effective, and accepted His mediation between Him and us men, through the shedding of His blood, to save us and admit us back in the His Eternal Kingdom of Light, And He is no longer angry and has no more complaint against us, nor against the sins of the whole world, except for one thing: those who remain unbelievers and despisers of so great a and sublime Work of Salvation coming from the Grace and Mercy of God. Now there will only be no forgiveness for those who despise this supreme and great act of Salvation on the part of God. Only for the despisers and unbelievers will the Wrath of God remain. In a greater plan, God will no longer judge all men for their sins, however dark they may be, but for their contempt and unbelief against Him! No matter how much you have sinned, you will never overcome Jesus' sacrifice! You will now only be damned if you despise the Salvation of God, which is in His Son, through unbelief! Because "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved: but he that believeth not shall be damned." (Mark 16:16 ). Only two options! It's not saying, "Whoever sins a little will be saved, and whoever sins a lot will be damned." No! The only thing that will divide man, on a greater plane, is Faith in God through the Testimony of Jesus. You need to hear the Word of God, the Message of the Gospel and the Cross, and believe in God. I'm not saying you're going to believe God, be saved, and go on living in sin. No! For whoever is born of God also receives a new nature, and consequently will take pleasure in righteousness and practice righteousness. It does not mean that you will never sin again, but that now if you do sin you will urgently confess evil and by no means continue to live in sin.
The Work of Jesus on the cross is both salvation and condemnation for the world, if they don't believe! For whence will there be an excuse for unbelief in the face of so great a work of Salvation? Everything that was necessary for the realization of our Salvation was done by Jesus. The message is being preached. God is saying there is now forgiveness for you. All you have to do is repent of your sins and accept God's Salvation through the Testimony of Jesus, which is being preached and which is also fully recorded in the Holy Scriptures! The Testimony that He existed, that He came into the world and performed the work of salvation is strong, accompanied by power and is being preached, if you just open the eyes of your spirit and believe. The perfect life of Jesus has now been placed on our account. We are saved, regenerated and transformed, through faith, through faith alone and nothing else. We have no righteousness to present to God, but it is only for the righteousness of Jesus. A minimum sincere look that you look at God, as long as it is with truth, will lead you to Salvation, says the Word of God! "Look to me, and be you saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else." (Isaiah 45:22 ) and "And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day." (John 6:40).
Jesus' Sacrifice in the Outpouring of His righteous life for the world was perfect, undefiled, sufficient, and efficient forever over all who believe in His Name. Through Jesus, you are forgiven, and you are no longer guilty, and no one can ever accuse you of anything again, if you abide in Him through faith to the end, for "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9), "and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." (1 John 1:7). Just listen to the Word of God, accept this truth in your heart and live by it. If you repent from the evil way, hearing the Word of God, and accept what Jesus has done for you, believing in God with all your heart, you will be forgiven and made righteous by His blood, and then God will now be at peace with you forever, and you with Him!
