Hallelujah, Christ as the seed of Abraham was crucified and became a curse on our behalf to redeem us out of the curse of the law so that we may receive the all-inclusive Spirit as the blessing of the gospel promised to Abraham! Wow, praise the Lord!
God didn’t just create us in His image and likeness and then left it up to us to express Him and represent Him the best we can; rather, though we fell in sin and under the curse, He came and became a curse for us to redeem us!
It is inconceivable with our human mind how can the almighty God become a man, but it is even more incomprehensible that this God-man would die for us and become a curse for us.
According to the Bible, the word of God, Christ came in the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, but He did not have the sin in the flesh.
He lived a perfect human life on earth, expressing God, doing God’s work, speaking God’s word, and manifesting God to man; at the end of His thirty-three and a half years on the earth, He was put to death by man.
Christ was crucified on the cross to fulfill the word of God; in Deut. 21 we are told that he who is hanged on the tree is accursed before God, and Christ became such a one.
He had no sin, He never committed sin, and He was not involved with sin at all; but God made Him sin on our behalf.
He was the perfect God-man who died an all-inclusive death to bear our sins and to bear the curse; furthermore, He Himself became a curse for us on the cross.
In the first three hours of Him being on the cross, He was persecuted and ridiculed by man, and in the last three hours, He was judged by God, for He became in God’s eyes the unique sinner in the universe.
All our sins were put on Him; all our curse was put on Him; and He became a curse in God’s eyes, so God had to forsake Him.
God forsook His own Son economically (His Spirit was still the essence of Christ’s being, but He left Him with His power and authority), and He judged Him on the cross on our behalf.
We should have been up there, we should have been put to death on the tree, and we should have borne our own sins and curse, but Christ came and died as our Substitute, and He crucified on our behalf.
Even more, He became in resurrection a life-giving Spirit, the reality of the blessing of Abraham, for all those who believe into Him to receive and enjoy!
Now all those who believe into Jesus Christ are redeemed from the curse of the law and are brought into the enjoyment of the blessing of God, which is the compound, life-giving, all-inclusive Spirit as the consummation of the processed Triune God! Hallelujah!
Christ Redeemed us out of the Curse of the Law so that we may Enjoy the Spirit as the Blessing
As the seed of Abraham, Christ was made a curse for us in order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith (Gal. 3:14).
Hallelujah, by believing into Christ we are redeemed from the curse of the law and we are brought into the enjoyment of the promised blessing, which is the Spirit Himself!
Christ bore the curse and accomplished redemption for us to redeem us from under the curse of the law; this One is not just a good man or a righteous man, but the seed of Abraham.
The blessing of Abraham is the blessing promised by God to him for all the nations of the earth (Gen. 12:3); God called Abraham, but He promised that in his seed He will bless all the nations of the earth.
We may not be part of the physical descendants of Abraham, but by believing into Christ, we become part of his spiritual descendants, the spiritual people of God enjoying the blessing of Abraham.
God’s promise to Abraham was fulfilled and this blessing has come to the nations in Christ through His redemption by the cross (Gal. 3:1, 13-14).
By the coming of Christ – the incarnation of Christ – the promise of God was fulfilled; Christ has come as the seed of Abraham, and by His redemption on the cross, He brought in the blessing and even became the blessing.
Christ can’t just bring us into the blessing; He realized that we are under the curse of the law, and as long as we are under that curse, we are not free to participate in that blessing.
So He Himself had to come and accomplish His redemptive work so that He may satisfy all of God’s righteous requirements according to the law, so that all of us sinners – who were under the curse – can be now set free.
Hallelujah, we are now free to participate and enjoy in the promise that God made to Abraham, which is the promised Spirit!
It is amazing that Paul saw all this in the Old Testament and how this is fulfilled in the New Testament; he realized that we were under the curse of the law, but Christ came as the seed of Abraham to become our blessing, and we can enjoy this blessing because Christ became a curse on the cross to bear the curse and redeem us from the curse of the law.
The blessing which God promised to Abraham for all the nations and which we as believers can receive through faith in Christ is the Spirit; the Spirit is the unique blessing, and this Spirit is nothing else but God Himself being processed and consummated to be our unique blessing.
Praise You Lord Jesus for coming as the seed of Abraham to be crucified and become a curse on our behalf to redeem us out of the curse of the law in order that we might receive the Spirit as the blessing of the gospel! Hallelujah, we have been redeemed from the curse of the law by Christ’s redemptive work on the cross, and by faith in Christ we can partake of and enjoy the promised blessing, which is the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit! Lord, we exercise our spirit to enjoy You as the Spirit, and we want to live one spirit with You today to be under Your blessing and to enjoy all that You are!
The All-inclusive Spirit is the Unique Blessing of the Gospel for our Enjoyment!
In Gal. 3:13-14 we see a wonderful and even marvelous fact: God in Christ came to redeem us out of the curse of the law, and by faith in Him we are brought into the enjoyment of the promised blessing, which is the Spirit!
This Spirit is the compound Spirit, that is, God Himself processed in His Trinity through incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and descension for us to receive and enjoy as our life and our everything.
This is the unique blessing, the blessing that God promised Abraham for all the nations.
The physical aspect of the blessing God promised to Abraham was the good land (see Gen. 12:7; 13:15; 17:8; 26:3-4), which was a type of the all-inclusive Christ (Col. 1:12).
Christ is eventually realized as the life-giving, all-inclusive Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45; 2 Cor. 3:17), so the blessing of the promised Spirit corresponds to the blessing of the promised land.
In our experience, the Spirit as the realization of Christ is the good land as the source of God’s bountiful supply for us to enjoy and partake of.
The blessing is nothing else but God Himself; God doesn’t bless us with anything that is different than Himself, for He is the unique blessing in the universe.
So God was embodied in Christ and realized as the Spirit to be dispensed into us for our enjoyment!
Everything else in the universe beside God is vanity of vanities (Eccl. 1:2); even the entire universe is vain if there’s no God, and the entire universe cannot compare with our Triune God.
When we have God, we have the blessing, and without God, we have nothing.
However, for us to enjoy God, He had to go through a process; just as the food can become a blessing to us after being processed or cooked, so the “raw God” had to be “cooked” through a process to become our enjoyment and experience.
God went through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and descension so that He may be enjoyed by us as the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit to be our unique blessing.
What we enjoy today is not just the God who was there in the beginning creating the universe, nor just the Jehovah God who was with the people of Israel in the Old Testament.
What we enjoy today is not even just Jesus Christ in His work on earth, or the crucified Christ on the cross.
Our blessing is the Spirit, the consummation of the processed Triune God, the sum total and the aggregate of the processed Triune God.
Our spiritual blessing today and for eternity is to enjoy and inherit the Spirit, the consummation of the processed Triune God.
Today and for eternity we will enjoy the processed Triune God, who is the all-inclusive life-giving Spirit (Rev. 22:1; John 7:37-39).
What we enjoy today as our blessing is nothing but the indwelling Spirit, the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit to be our unique blessing.
We all can testify that the indwelling Spirit is so real, so rich, so wonderful, so applicable, and so sweet in our daily living!
God in His full gospel wants us to enjoy not only the blessing of forgiveness of sins, washing of the offenses, and cleansing of our past; He wants us to enjoy the greatest blessing – the Triune God (the Father, the Son, and the Spirit) as the processed, all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit dwelling in us in a most subjective way for our enjoyment!
Hallelujah, what a blessing it is that we can all enjoy such an all-inclusive One as our daily portion, our blessing, and our everything!
Lord Jesus, thank You for passing through a process to become the all-inclusive Spirit for our enjoyment today. Hallelujah, the Triune God passed through the process of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, ascension, and descension to be the all-inclusive, life-giving Spirit dwelling us in a most subjective way for our enjoyment! Amen, Lord Jesus, we open to You to enjoy You as the Spirit, the unique blessing in the universe! You are the all-inclusive One as our daily portion and as our inheritance for eternity!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by bro. James Lee for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, pp. 3289-3290 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Deuteronomy, week 8, Christ — the One Cursed and Hanged on a Tree.
- Hymns on this topic:
– O Lord, Thou art in me as life / And everything to me! / Subjective and available, / Thus I experience Thee. / O Lord, Thou art the Spirit! / How dear and near to me! / How I admire Thy marvelous / Availability! (Hymns #539)
– When we call Lord Jesus, / Do you know what we get? / We get a God who’s processed now, / The all-inclusive Spirit! / He’s olive oil, He’s myrrh, / He’s cinnamon, and He’s calamus, / The power of Christ’s resurrection, / He’s the cassia in us! (Song on, The Compound Spirit)
– This Spirit of Jesus doth / Encompass both great and small; / Inclusively He doth work / In us, making God our all. (Hymns #242)
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