He Who Knew No Sin Became Sin

He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. --II Corinthians 5:21

Spiritual glue is holding all things together (Colossians 1; Ephesians 4; Acts 17). Jesus is the invisible nuclear glue that is holding all things together. He is the positive. Like opposing ends of magnets, God is naturally attracted to man, and man is very drawn toward God. Think, though, of trying to force together two positive sides of magnets; those repel one another, and it is very difficult to bring them near to one another. Man is fine as long as he views himself as the negative that he is when compared to all that is positive in Christ. However, through pride and believing himself sufficiently positive not to rely on God, man invites sin into his being, which causes the glue holding him together to be repelled by the sin. The glue withdraws, and the man is less and less a reflection of the image of God. If sin continues to be invited in, the man will, in time, no longer resemble the image of God; in fact, the sin makes him sick. God did allow for a fix for all of this. The sin could be taken out of a man and placed on an animal, though because an animal is not created in the image of God, sin so distorts it that it must be killed. The animal was a good representation of the loss caused by what man had done. For example, a dove represents freedom, song, and peace, all things that man lost through sin and the dove would lose by way of death. Sacrifice of a man was never required until the fullness of time when the sins of the whole world (past, present, and future) had reached their culmination. On the cross God broke the divine umbilical cord that ran from Himself to the Son and placed on the Son the sins of the whole world. That sin was so great that it drove the very life out of Him, at which point sin, Satan, the world, death, captivity, and hell encased Him. He sank to the depths of hell but, to the surprise of all, broke out! He conquered all that had encased His life, ripped open the gates of hell, preached, and even took captivity captive to disable the free exercise of its power. He then waited until God raised Him back into His slain body, in which awaited the sins of the whole world. This time He entered back into the body with the power of an indestructible life, met the sin, and conquered sin in the body! His Life was so powerful that it even transformed His earthly body. It is one thing to accept that He has done all that in His body, but the next step is for the believer to acknowledge the truth that Jesus can do it in his own body!He can, He will, and He has.