The Cross of Christ : is the Grace of God

[Behold]

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How to understand the Grace of God, as the Cross of Christ....

A.) = Just like that.


In other words...

Christ on the Cross, is God manifested in the Flesh on the Cross, who said... before He died....."IT" "is finished".

See that "IT"?

A born again believer has to understand that "IT", as that "IT", is Salvation, Grace, and Redemption..... all of these.
That "IT" is the New Testament and the New Covenant.

So, lets say you are teaching a Sunday School Class,

Explain it like this...

1.) God became a man, the Virgin born Jesus, and He lived a perfect life, sin free. He then offers this LIFE to God, as a Sacrifice on The Cross for the "world". That's EVERYONE. John 3:16.
This Sacrifice is what God accepts, on our Behalf, to accept us., and God accepts nothing else. John 14:6

This is "the Gift of Salvation".
This is Christ on the Cross.

2.) Its literally, God dying as a man on the Cross, and this life He lived as sinless Jesus, is exchanged for our SIN, and Jesus becomes our sin on the Cross.... and its dealt with there, forever,...... and we become by this substitution, "the righteousness of God, in Christ".
Jesus becomes our sin and dies for it, and we become forgiven and now possess "Christ's Righteousness".

3.) Totally simplified : Christ becomes our sin, and we become as if we have lived the sinless life that Christ lived... given to us AS : "The Gift of Salvation, and "The Gift of Righteousness". This is what it means to be a Born Again CHRISTian.

4.) So, when we understand that we are become "the righteousness of God in Christ", we have "worked out our Salvation"", by understanding what<>who = we have Eternally become as a "NEW Creation, in Christ".

This is what it means to be "Born Again"... "IN Christ" as "One with God".

 

[Ritajanice]

I see it this way....The cross of Christ...is where Jesus had to go, he had to be crucified and killed in the body, why, because he was/ is the Son of God and the only way back to the Father is through his Son, Jesus...Without the death of Jesus, there would be NO “ Born Again “ Children.

Being Born Again is a Living spiritual birth, that can only be done by the Holy Spirit....We must believe in Jesus before any birth can take place and even then, God draws us to believe in Jesus.

I didn’t say God believes for us....I said God draws us to believe in Jesus.

Being Born Again is like the wind..

John 3:8​

“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.”

,my testimony and belief.

 

[Behold]

Reader,

Notice that when we give our Faith to God.... we are receiving what God has completed for us, on the Cross.

Jesus said....."IT is finished". = Salvation...... 2000 yrs ago.

That is the "IT"... "is Finished'.
This is our Salvation.. This is Jesus becoming our sin, and being judged to death, and we are thereby removed from eternal judgement for sin, and given "the Gift of Righteousness".

All we did, was come to God as a SINNER, ... BELIEVING< and God took it from there.

Philippians 1:6

He has Salvation ready to go for the WORLD, 2000 yrs ago .. John 3:16, and we came to the Cross where its GIVEN, and He gives it as "The GIFT of Salvation".
This is our "Eternal Life" "in Christ".

Now here is the mystery that you need to SEE, and this will change your walk with God into fullness and completion.

SEE yourself, as SAVED.... completely, and always.

Not being saved, or .. "getting there".. But see yourself as God has caused you to become.. and that is a "made righteous", "in Christ", "one with God".. "NEW CREATION"... = Born again.
That is the real YOU, if you are a born again Christian.
Its not a process.. Its a SALVATION that is Completed and you have it, if you are born again, and not just water baptized and religious.

You can't become more SAVED. You can't become more Righteous.. and that is Because Salvation is a FINISHED Salvation, that is given, and because of it, you are "complete in Him"... "In Christ"... "one with God".

When you can see yourself as this, then you are able to live within a TRUE Discipleship, that is based on having become : "the righteousness of God in Christ", which then is your Spiritual POWER .

 

[Ritajanice]

Excellent.....Amen!!....Praise God!!