Jesus' Curse is Our Rejoicing

Only by being made a curse for us, can Christ offer up a complete sacrifice to give our guilty consciences peace with God.

No animal sacrifice will do for us. We must have Jesus punished in our place as our substitute and for our crimes, so that we can truly be forgiven for all time by God.

False teachers who deny Christ's substitutionary sacrifice gnash against Paul's declaration that Christ redeemed us by being made a curse for us. They denounce sound Gospel preachers who proclaim this Biblical truth. They despise R. C. Sproul for his strong statements. They deplore Martin Luther for his even stronger statements.

Charles Hadden Spurgeon preached on several occasions about this great Scriptural truth, and the false teachers don't like him either!

Spurgeon was careful to correct some misreadings of Luther's "boisterous" statements, making it clear that Christ was never a sinner, and never made a sinner.

Rather, our Lord Jesus had our crimes imputed to Him at the cross, and was punished for our sins by God as if they were Christ's own sins. Jesus represented His poor, sinful, beloved people in the judgment.

The curse Christ was made was a terror to His holy and perfect nature. The separation from God during the judgment was most horrible to our Savior. He bore the wrath we ought to be received, and thereby redeemed us from the curse of the law.

During His ministry, our Savior made clear the importance of thanksgiving for the blessings He gave to His people. He marveled that of the ten lepers He healed all at once, only one, a Samaritan, came back to worship and praise Him!

We ought to rejoice that Jesus was made a curse for us!