THE PURPOSE OF CHRIST COMING

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Jesus came as the revelation of Righteousness. We understand that Righteousness means the ability to stand in the presence of God without the sense of guilt or inferiority. This has been the quest of the ages.

The desire to get rid of sin consciousness has given birth to all the major religions of the world. But God has dealt with the sin problem through the coming of Jesus Christ. He has made it possible on legal grounds for man who is spiritually dead, in union with satan, to become a New Creation by receiving the very nature and Life ofGod (the Zoe Life).

The life and nature of God is Righteousness. Consequently as a result of Jesus finished work of redemption, any person who accepts Jesus as Lord and Saviour, automatically becomes the Righteousness ofGod in Christ.

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The dominion of sin consciousness over the church has been fostered, developed, and made a reality by ministers who keep on preaching sin instead of Christ and the New Creation. Sin consciousness came with the fall when man became a _partaker of Spiritual Death. Spiritually dead man cannot stand in God's presence.

This can be seen by God's illustration of this fact in the old covenant. The Eigh Priest went into the Holy of Holies once every year, and that is only when he was blood covered. He usually didn't go into the Holy place to worship, but to make a yearly atonement for spiritually dead Israel.

The Good news is that God sent His only begotten Son to the world to become incarnate, to become eternally united with humanity. Jesus went to the Cross of Calvary by the determinate counsel of God, became sin, took the place ofhumanity (sinners) as a substitute.

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Then He conquered the Enemy and made Righteousness available to all those who believe in Christ. Any form of religious redemption that is void ofthis truth is fallacy.

The scripture made it abundantly clear that Jesus is our Righteousness, our Redemption, our sanctification and wisdom (ICor. 1:30) Until one comes in reality with Righteousness as a gift from God, satan reigns over such a one, sin and disease becomes one's masters.

But the instant he knows that he is the Righteousness of God in Christ and knows and experiences what Righteousness stands for, satan is defeated in reality, hallelujah! When William Tyndale was translating the New Testament into English, he encountered great difficulty in finding a word big enough to convey the meaning of the redeeming work of Christ.

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Finding no adequate word Tyndale joined two simple words "at" and "onement" resulting in "atonement' and giving in its etymology a clue to the Bible's teaching of salvation by Reconciliation. In Christ's death on the Cross, God and man, who had been severed by sin, were brought together. If man's sins could have been forgiven any other way, God would not have allowed His son to go to the Cross.