False teachers deny that Jesus died for our sins and received divine justice from God in our place, so that we might go free.
Thus, they gnash against the teaching that Jesus was made sin for us, or was made a curse to redeem us from the curse of the law.
We come this Lord's Day to address another spurious claim they make, that those who describe Christ as being made a curse are spouting demonic blasphemies against Jesus. They cite 1 Corinthians 12:3 as their proof text.
Here again they expose their heretical method of interpretation of Scripture. They seem to believe that they can scour the Scriptures for a text that "cancels out" other texts that refute their false teachings.
It was, after all, the Apostle Paul who wrote both 1 Corinthians 12:3 and Galatians 3:13, where he taught explicitly, that "Christ was made a curse for us."
These two texts are quite simple to reconcile. Paul is decrying lost people who hate Jesus and seek to curse Him. Thus the tense: those who call Christ accursed, vs. Paul's teaching that Christ WAS MADE a curse for us.
Nobody who loves the Savior thinks or says that Jesus is now cursed by God! No, we insist that He is lovely, glorious, exalted, blessed, and Lord of all!
To describe how Jesus was made a curse to redeem us is to glorify His saving work, wherein He paid so great a price to rescue His loved ones!
Christ set us free from being cursed by God, by substituting Himself in our place, and by His perfect and pure death discharging that curse from us forever!
To describe Christ's work of redemption is to honor Him, not to curse Him.
It is to exalt Him as Savior and Lord, not to denigrate or hate Him in any way.
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
