In Deuteronomy 27 - God instructs For the curse, these shall stand on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali. They were to stand on Mount Ebal and out loud speak of the sin and the curses that should fall upon the heads of the covenant breakers (Insert my name, your name. Every one of those curses is yours and mine. But on the cross every one of those curses fell on Christ!
Do we comprehend sin? Do we comprehend the fact that we humans who at NO time in our lives from birth to death can say we know no sin? Do you comprehend that Jesus Christ who has never known sin became our propitiation? Do we really understand the glory of the Gospel? Lets read Deuteronomy 27 and insert (JESUS) in place of "man" or your name. Christ upon the cross bore our sin and guilt!!
27:15 -'Cursed is (JESUS)who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.'
27:16 - 'Cursed is (JESUS) who dishonors his father or mother.'
27:17 - 'Cursed is (JESUS) who moves his neighbor's boundary mark.'
27:18 - 'Cursed is (JESUS) who misleads a blind person on the road.'
27:19 - 'Cursed is (JESUS) who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.'
27:20 - 'Cursed is (JESUS) who lies with his father's wife, because he has uncovered his father's skirt.'
27:21 - 'Cursed is (JESUS) who lies with any animal.'
27:22 - Cursed is (JESUS) who lies with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother.'
27:23 - 'Cursed is (JESUS) who lies with his mother-in-law.'
27:24 - 'Cursed is (JESUS) who strikes his neighbor in secret.'
27:25 - 'Cursed is (JESUS) who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person.'
27:26 - 'Cursed is (JESUS) who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them.'
It is only against the pitch blackness of mans depravity that we can see the glories of the Gospel.
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