We are continuing to examine biblical worldview. Biblical worldview encapsulates many things that are extremely important and it’s important that we understand those things. The most important of all those things in many ways is Jesus Christ Himself. You cannot have a biblical worldview if you do not have a worldview concerning Christ that is accurate to the teachings of the Word of God. We have looked at Christ who is God and we have looked at Christ who came as man, the Godman. Now we are going to look at Christ crucified. When we think of Jesus Christ we often think of the cross because they are so connected with one another.
What did Christ do for us concerning the cross? There is so much in the New Testament and even the Old Testament about this. I want to look at 2 Corinthians 5:21 with you, it says, “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” The reason Jesus Christ came was to be our Savior. He came and He knew no sin. First, all of those years living on earth from the day of His incarnation to the day of His death, there was no sin in Him. He lived the perfect life. The life that no one else has ever lived. He was the second Adam in a sense. Adam was created in such a way that he had no sin in him, but he fell. When he fell, he became a sinner. Jesus Christ never fell, and He never sinned. So, He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf. He became sin for us. He took upon Himself our sin and became sin on our behalf, for us, not for Himself, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Salvation is not possible apart from the work on the cross of what Jesus Christ has done for us.
I really enjoy looking at Romans 5 in its entirety when I think about this, but let’s look at Romans 5:7-8, “For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps for the good man someone would dare even to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” What a beautiful picture. While we were sinners, while we deserved absolutely nothing from Him and have done nothing to merit anything from Him, He died for us.
Romans 5:9 continues, “Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.” Now that we have been saved by Jesus Christ, we have been made justified and righteous by His blood. We are also saved from the wrath of God. This is the case that God’s judgment and righteous wrath is poured out on those who reject Him, but because of Jesus Christ and His blood, we are saved, if we are Christians, from the wrath of God . . .
