What exactly happened on the cross where Jesus hung?
Brendan Mc Crossan
cross where Jesus
One
What exactly happened on the cross where Jesus hung?
Ifyouweretodiewherewouldyougo?
Salvation is its smallest form.
The truth is that on that cross at the exact split second that Jesus hung there and died, something awesome happened for you. Your spirit was instantly CHANGED taken into heaven by Jesus, in his spirit, and this happened before you died or even accepted what really happened on that cross, for instance did anyone ever tell you that you became a ‘’New Creation,’’ a ‘’new Creature?’’
2-Corinthians 5:17-New English Translation
So then, if anyone is in Christ, he {she,} is a ‘’new creation;’’ what is old has passed away look, what is new has come!
What is it like to be a New Creation? I’ll tell you it is ‘’overwhelming,’’ it is sometimes so amazing that it is hard to take in, to say to yourself, ‘’I am a new Creation;’’ ‘’I am born again, into this’’ New Creation’’ who is Jesus in spirit, you have become ‘’one in union with Jesus Christ’’ yoursaviourandredeemer!
Onthatcrossyouandbillionsofothersweregiventhe‘’gift of eternal life’ ‘in Jesus’’ and ‘’he in you’’ ‘’all joined together in spirit’’ not in your flesh,foryourfleshenjoyssinning, andJesuswhoisholywillnotjointoasin filledperson.
Didyouknowthatatthatinstanthemadeyou‘’Holy and without fault,’’
Holy and without fault?’’ do you mean me?
Ephesians 1-3 Good News Translation (GNT1 ….From Paul, who by God's will is an apostle of Christ Jesus, in Union to God's people in Ephesus, who are faithful in their life in ‘’union’’ with Christ Jesus’’ 2 May God our Father and the Lord ‘’Jesus Christ give you grace and peace’’ .
Spiritual Blessings in Christ
3 Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in ‘’our ‘’union’’ ‘’with Christ’’ he ‘’has’’ ‘’blessed us’’ by giving us ‘’every spiritual blessing’’ ‘’in the heavenly world.’’ 4 Even before the world was made, ‘’God had already chosen us to be his ‘’through our ‘’union’’ with Christ,’’ so that we would be ‘’holy and without fault’’ ‘’before him.’’
Because of his love 5 God had ‘’already decided’’ that through Jesus Christ he would make us ‘’his children’’ —this was ‘’his pleasure’’ and ‘’purpose’’ 6 Let us praise God for his glorious grace, for the free gift he gave us in his dear Son! 7 For by the blood of Christ we are set free, that is, our sins are forgiven. How great is the *grace of God,* 8 which he gave to us in such *large measure!*
In all his wisdom and insight 9 God did what he had purposed, and made known to us the secret plan he had already decided to complete by means of Christ. 10 This plan, which God will complete when the time is right, is to bring all creation together, everything in heaven and on earth, with Christ as head.
11 All things are done according to God's plan and decision; and ‘’God chose us to be his own people’’ in ‘’union’ ‘with Christ’’ because of his own purpose, based on what *he had decided* *from the very beginning.* 12 Let us, then, who were the first to hope in Christ, praise God's glory!
Didyouknowthat at themoment ofhisdeaththat hegaveyoueveryspiritualblessingin theheavenlyworld?Forin ‘’our union’’ ‘’with Christ’’ hehasblessedusbygivingus ‘’every spiritual blessing’’ ‘’in the ‘’heavenly world.’’ this was ‘’his pleasure’’ and ‘’purpose’’ And the word pleasure means=enjoyment, happiness, delight, joy, bliss, contentment, satisfaction, and gratification
Hegaveyoua ‘’spiritual transformation,’’ a ‘’new nature in Christ,’’ Not only are you a new creation but *you have* a *new nature* *in Christ* as hehungthereonthatcross so that we would be holy and without fault before him.
.
Andwhenhereturnedtoheavenhegavegiftstomen,
Ephesians 4:8 Living Bible…..The psalmist tells about this, for he says that when Christ returned triumphantly to heaven after his resurrection and victory over Satan, he gave generous gifts to men.
Galatians 6:15-Amplified Bible
For neither is circumcision anything [of any importance], nor un circumcision, but [only] ‘’a new creation’’ [which is the result of a ‘’new birth’’ a ‘’spiritual transformation’’ a ‘’new nature’’ in ‘’Christ Jesus].’’
It was not until he died that all heavens gifts were released to you.
Ephesians 2 3 Living Bible (TLB)
3 All of us used to be just as they are, our lives expressing the evil within us, doing every wicked thing that our passions or our evil thoughts might lead us into. We started out bad, being born with evil natures, and were under God’s anger just like everyone else.
4 But God is so rich in mercy; he loved us so much 5 that even though we were spiritually dead and doomed by our sins, he gave us back our lives again when he raised Christ from the dead only by ‘’his’’ ‘’undeserved favor’’ have we ever been saved 6 and lifted ‘’us up’ from the grave into ‘’glory’’ ‘’along with Christ,’’ where ‘’we ‘sit’ ‘with him’ in the ‘’heavenly realms’’—all because of what Christ Jesus did.
AllthesegloriousthingsthatarethereforusarebecauseofJesus,andbecauseofthelove God has for us. He is so rich in mercy, and loved us so much, and sadly many cannot feel thatlovefromhim,
Two bits of wood, wouldchangeourentirelivesforeternity,foroursaviourandLordGod woulddomightythingsforyouonthat cross
2-Corinthians 5:17-Amplified Bible
Therefore if anyone is in Christ [that is,
grafted in,’’ ‘’joined to Him’’ by faith in Him as Savior], he is a ‘’new creature’’ [‘’reborn and renewed by the Holy Spirit’’]; the old things [the
previous moral and spiritual condition] have passed away. Behold, new things have come [because spiritual awakening brings a new life].
2 Corinthians 5:17 King James Version
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a ‘’new creature:’’ old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
The cross is spoken of often and how Jesus our saviour hung and died for our sins. But there is more that happened on that cross than most born again Christians know or understand!
HEALING
1 Peter 2 21 Living Bible (TLB)
21 This suffering is all part of the work God has given you. Christ, who suffered for you, is your example. Follow in his steps: 22 He never sinned, never told a lie, 23 never answered back when insulted; when he suffered he did not threaten to get even; he left his case in the hands of God who always judges fairly. 24 He personally carried the load of our sins in his own body when he died on the cross so that we can be finished with sin and live a good life from now on For his wounds have healed ours!
Isaiah 53- 1 Isaiah 53 Living Bible (TLB)
53 But, oh, how few believe it! Who will listen? To whom will God reveal his saving power? 2 In God’s eyes he was like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in dry and sterile ground. But in our eyes there was no attractiveness at all, nothing to make us want him. 3 We despised him and rejected him a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we didn’t care.
4 Yet it was
our grief
he bore,
our sorrows
that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, for his
own sins!
5 But he was wounded and bruised for
we
our sins.
were
He was
healed!
beaten that
we
might have peace;
he was lashed and
Grief =heartache, anguish, misery, unhappiness,
Sorrows = mourning, sadness, distress, regret, trouble,
On that cross Jesus purchased for us salvation; with that salvation instantly came many gifts from him, the most important is the gift of righteousness; = right standing with the father!
But Jesus didn’t just purchase salvation for us on that cross
He also gave us victory over the enemy
He gave us overwhelming victory not just victory, over the enemy,
He gave us righteousness
He gave us his Holy Spirit
He made us a new creature
He made us a new creation
He took our sickness and bore our diseases
He gave us power love and a sound mind
He gave us his peace not the world’s peace
He gave us equal share in his inheritance
He gave salvation to our children and grandchildren
Hemadeus’hischildren’’—this was ‘’his pleasure’’ and ‘’purpose’’.
He joined us together with, and in him as one spirit
He gave us every spiritual blessing in heaven
He gave us rightstandinginthe place of highest privilege,
Hegaveusa seat in the heavenly realms
Hegaveus his new life to live
He gave us holiness
He gave us angels at the moment of salvation to protect us
He gave us his own glory
He made us perfect forever in his sight
He made us holy in his sight, without a single fault
He will live his new life in us; for it is no longer I who live but Christ Jesus in me
He,’’ says no weapon formed against me will succeed
He gave us dominion over Satan and all demonic forces
He gave us his own name to defeat the enemy
He gave us power to heal the sick
He gave us the power to forgive sins
He gave us every spiritual gift and power
He gave us the right to call God father
His divine power hasgrantedtous all things that pertain to life and godliness,
Hecalledus to his own glory and excellence
Hehasgrantedtous his precious and very great promises,
Hemadeus partakers of the divine nature.
Hesharedwithme God’s own seed, his sperm
Hegaveme [‘’His principle of life,’’ the ‘’essence of His righteous character’’
Hisunchangingplanhas always been to adopt us into his own family
He ‘’spiritually transformed,’’ ‘’renewed’’, and ‘’set me apart for His purpose’’
He,’’ has loved me intensely with unconditionally love
He,’’ has set me apart for himself
He,’’ says I can do everything through Christ Jesus
He,’’ says I am more than a conquer
He sanctified me
He gave us his word
He gave us the grace of God, 8 which he gave to us in such large measure!
All of this given to us instantly the moment he died and rose again, it didn’t come to us gradually, but instantly; for where could you get all this because of you and possibly by the things you do, it is impossible for us to receive all these things by something we done, it is by ‘’his power’’ at ‘’his death and resurrection.’’ These things are gifts from him to us as his children. When were you transformed, what part of your life did things change and you were spiritually transformed? When were you set apart for himself? Was it when you learned more about Jesus through scripture? No it was the moment you asked him to come into your heart, for at that moment as he hung there on that cross he supernaturally transformed time to stand still for those who want to be saved, that time on the cross is eternal for all seeking salvation, because Jesus lives outside of time he is able to live with his father in heaven, and also come and visit people on earth as he chooses. He is not on that cross suffering; he died on that cross and somehow he is able to hang there, and to be in heaven as well.
St Martin a very Holy black man, one time was seen in three places miles apart healing people, by people who knew him, and so confirmed this to his superiors; read his old magazines to read this human being filled with Jesus and the Holy Spirit was able to split himself in three, and do amazing things like floating up from the ground whilst praying to his God. What can Jesus do if this man was able to do these things through the Holy Spirit? We know so little of the lord’s supernatural world!
Scientists talk of a parallel world existing as we exist, but a world we cannot see; how many worlds did God create? We do not know these things, but he does things for his pleasure and purposes, and as God he can do as he likes, so sometimes when you get the feeling that you have been here before, and know what’s about to happen, perhaps you slipped into one of these worlds by accident. I know I had an experience one time as I went down to visit my friends, as I came to the street, workmen were doing something that I believed I had experienced before for I knew exactly what they were about to do before they done it, it was creepy, knowing what was happening, the feeling I have been here before even though it was impossible in the natural.
IfGodcancreatetheseparallelworlds,hecandoanything,butallwe’reinterestedherein this little book is this world, as to what exactly happened because of the cross, his death andresurrection.Whatdidhegiveusoutofaheartfullofloveforus?
Let’sgobackandgooverthesethingsthathegaveusonthatcross
The first thing you see here is that Jesus gave us victory and not just victor but overwhelming victory over the enemy all future victory, now this is just the first thing that Came to my mind and things are not in chronological order of the way they possibly shouldbe orcouldbe;butit makesnodifferencewhichwaytheyarepresentedtoyouor me,theyarefacts,thatiswhatmatters,factsofthelivingwordofthelivingGod.
He also gave us victory over the enemy!
When and where did he give us this victory? Now stop and think, was there somewhere that Jesus said specifically say here; now I have given you victory over the enemy. He said in Mark 16 16Inmynametheywilldriveoutdemons;hedidn’tsayheretheywillhavevictoryhe saidinmynametheyanduswilldoit
Ephesians 4:8 Living Bible……. The psalmist tells about this, for he says that when Christ returned triumphantly to heaven after
his
generous gifts to
and
victory over Satan,
he gave
It was in *his victory* that Jesus returned triumphantly to heaven, it was while his body wasstillhangingonthatcross,Jesusdidn’twaittillhisbodywastakendownandplacedin the tomb; no it was while he was still physically dead as he hung on that cross for us to comeandreceivesalvation,thathecontinuedtohangthere.
Inthatsplitsecondafterhediedandroseagain,thathewentdirectlydownintohellwhere SatanthedevilthoughthehadthevictoryoverthesonofthelivingGod,butboywashein forashock,forasJesusbodyhungthereonthatcrosshedefeatedthedevilbythewordof hismouth;hedidn’thaveaboxingmatchwithhimandmillionsofdemonsandevilspirits watching,aspeoplesometimesimagine,Jesusfightingthedevillikeacommonstreetfight.
‘’NO!’’ He spoke the word and the devil was defeated for he returned back to his divinity afterhedied.
Inthatsplitsecondhewentintothechamberswheretheprisonerswerebeingkeptbythe devilandspoketothemthemessageofsalvation,settingthemfree,takingthemwithhim back into heaven he forced ‘Satan, the devil,’ and his millions of evil spirits plus demons beforethethroneofGod,forthattookaninstant;forinheaven‘’thereisnotime,’’‘notlike here,’wherewehavetimegoverningourlives.AndasJesuswaslordofalltime,hisbodyis availabletoallwhoseeksalvationspirituallyandsupernaturally.
ThevictorywehaveisbecauseofJesusgivingusgiftsandblessingsinstantaneously;what an awesome God we have, and in that split second in our time he gave us overwhelming victoryoverthedevilbecausehestrippedhimofallpowerandauthority.
Romans 8:37 Amplified Bible Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us [somuchthat Hediedforus].
Why did God throw the devil back down to earth where we are living? Simply, it was because ‘’Adam and Eve’’ ‘surrendered the earth over to Satan the devil’ and he previously had domain over everything in it, and all in it, but now taken away by Jesus victoryoverhim,butonearthhewillstayuntilheandallthosewhorejectedGodandJesus arethrowndownintotheflamingpitwheretheywillremainforeternity.Satanarguedhis casewithGod,heacknowledgedthatheandhisdemonswillspendeternityinthefierypit, andbecauseitwasnotthetimeforthistohappenuntiltheendoftheworld.Heaskedtobe putbackdowntothisearthwherehepreviouslyruledbutnowdefeatedtheearthwasstill his,soGodagreedwithhisdefenseandsenthimpackingbackdowntoearth
He gave us overwhelming victory not just victory, over the enemy, through Jesus who loved us so much that he suffered and died for you and me for us for everyone even those who will reject him.
He gave us ‘’righteousness’’ and He gave us his ‘’Holy Spirit’’
He gave us righteousness. What exactly is righteousness? Righteousness means that you have ‘’right standing with father God,’’ and that you have been given virtue, uprightness, morality, rectitude, and honesty. Jesus took your sins away and replaced them with righteousness; that was some swop to make, a dirty gigantic pile of filthy foul sins, swopped for God’s own righteousness! Amazing what God can and does for love of you and me! And the most amazing thing about righteousness is righteousness is ‘’God’s own righteousness,’’ he shared with us ‘’his own righteousness.’’ This is so far out that it is almost impossible to believe, he gave me! His own righteousness his virtue, his uprightness, his morality, his rectitude, his honesty, this is something few of us Christians ever get to know or understand, these things don’t seem to be taught to us in meetings or church.
He gave us *his Holy Spirit.* Just imagine God giving away a part of him, for that is what he did while his spirit hung on that cross with Jesus. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Holy Trinity, he is a person, not a wee birdie like a dove, and God gave him in ‘’all of his fullness’’ over to us to use him, so that we could get to know him so he can in turn use us.
Can you just stop what you are doing right now and think about this, or as scripture said about Mary; ‘’she pondered everything in her heart.’’ Let’s do the same thing, begin by thinking who is the Holy Spirit, can he use me? How do I surrender to him? That is by decision not feeling?
Can you feel the Holy Spirit within you right now? You will if you just stop and be silent, holding in your breath for a while and letting it out again silently, eyes closed and searching to meet with him, and he will reveal himself to you. Listen and be overwhelmed by the very words he speaks through your mouth to God the father, as he pleads for us in harmony with the perfect will of God.
God in his great wisdom decided to share himself with you and I, I for one cannot thank him enough, for I have experienced the Holy Spirit in many ways over these last forty one years, from miracles to praying in his awesome gift of tongues. You know, we need to go over and over, thinking these things, before they will finally drop down into your spirit, and become a part of you as God intended.