The Dying Death of Death
Jesus for us...
1/ The Great Exchange (2 Corinthians 5:21)
For our sake
He [God the Father] made Him [God the Son] to be sin
(who knew no sin),
so that in Him [God the Son] we might become
the righteousness of God.What good news! Jesus has our sin. We have His righteousness. (I used this for the devotion in What-Not the Podcast this morning.)
2/ Jesus the Death of Death
Martin Luther brings 2 Corinthians 5:21 into his commentary on Galatians 2:19. This is pretty good.
Whenever I feel remorse in my conscience on account of sin, therefore, I look at the bronze serpent, Christ on the cross (John 3:14–15). Against my sin, which accuses and devours me, I find there another sin. But this other sin, namely, that which is in the flesh of Christ, takes away the sin of the world. It is omnipotent, and it damns and devours my sin. Lest my sin accuse and damn me, it is itself damned by sin, that is, by Christ the crucified, “who for our sake was made to be sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21). Thus in my flesh I find a death that afflicts and kills me; but I also have a contrary Death, which is the death of my death and which crucifies and devours my death.
All these things happen, not through the Law or works but through Christ the crucified, on whose shoulders lie all the evils of the human race—the Law, sin, death, the devil, and hell—all of which die in Him, because by His death He kills them.
Greater Galatians (LW 26:159-160)
3/ Culturally Woke or Biblically Enlightened?
Last fall I gave two lectures to a young adult conference titled “Culturally Woke or Biblically Enlightened.” It was a beginning of a Biblical investigation into some of our cultural troubles. I put the audio together with the slides in this video. Let me know what you think.
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Lord's Blessings, Pastor Wolfmueller
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
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The Lord uses the suffering of the Christian to call His enemies into the fellowship of His family. Consider how the stoning of Steven was a torment and blessing to Paul.
