Three Aspects of Christ's Death in John

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There are three important aspects of Christ's death in the Gospel of John. One is readily more familiar that the other two.
They are:

1.) Christ died a redemptive death as the Lamb of God. (John 1:29)

2.) Christ died a terminating death as the brass serpent lifted up on a pole. (John 3:14,15)

3.) Christ died reproductive or multipicative death as the one grain that fell into the ground to reproduce much fruit. (John 12:24)

Christ shed His blood as the Lamb to accomplish an eternal redemption.
Christ also became sin for us on the cross dying virtually as Satan being judged. This terminates and nullifies the effect of the Satanic poisoning of our being from the fall of Adam,
Christ also broke the shell of His humanity to allow the divine life concealed in Him to be released. This was to reproduce Himself in many grains like Himself in reproduction.

Redemption frees us from the guilt of sins.
Termination allows us to nullify the effect of the sin nature that we may live through, live out, and live unto Christ. That is essentially live Christ.
Reproduction allow us to be conformed to the same image as our Savior. That is that in eternity God may have many sons. We are all a work in progress.

None of the three vital aspects of Christ's work can be under estimated. And we Christians should stand on these facts and proclaim them our progress in the faith.

 

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I used to work on the 23rd floor of a New York City skyscaper. One day as a younger Christian I looked out a big window over the millions of people below in the city. I looked across the horizon and uttered to myself "The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." It hit me that that one act of Christ on His cross was adaquate to accomplish such an extensive and unlimited redemption for all the billions of people on earth. What a offering!

Equally it hit me, and still impresses me, that all the negative things in my fallen being, flesh, self, the world, love of idols and whatever is against God's eternal purpose was terminated when Christ uttered "It is finished." That terminating power is in the Spirit. The power of God to put us to death, bury us, and get the fallen man out of the way is in the Holy Spirit.

Equally impressive is that my destiny as well as every believer in Christ is to be like Him, filled with His resurrection presence and transformed into His image is our birthright.

I think all three of these realities are revealed nicely in Paul's proclamation in Galatians 2:20.

I am crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live in faith, the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me. (Gal. 2:20)


This pioneering brother says that he let the grace of God have its full sway in his being. He did not hinder the full effect of grace operate in him.
Thank God for one of a number of saints who refused to nullify the grace of God for himself that we may see the way through to Christ's riches blessing.


I do not nullify the grace of God; for if righteousness is through law, then Christ has died for nothing. (v.21)

 

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I admitted that I love to sing the Scriptures. About John 3:14-16 I made a song for singing about Moses lifting up the brass serpent in the wilderness.
This was a type Christ dying on the cross as Satan and sin being judged by God that we might have eternal life.

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I found it very effective to stand on my co-death with Christ in exactly the same way as I stand on His redeeming me.
Think of it. The Holy Spirit honors our believing that HIs blood cleanses us from all sin.
In the same manner exactly He honors that we have been crucified, buried, and raised with Christ.

There is no difference. Both blessings are made real to us by faith touching the Holy Spirit in our human spirit.
So as I took by faith that my sins are forgiven I began to proclaim that I am crucified with Christ and reckon in spirit that His death operates in me.

So I began to sing Romans 6 about this. What an enjoyment. What a freedom grace releases into our living by faith.

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I love these three aspects of Christ's death (and resurrection). They are all made real to Christians by touching within the
Spirit after regeneration.

In the Spirit the effectiveness of a clear conscience from sin is ours from the Lamb of God.
And in the Spirit the power of His terminating death nullifies the influence of our sin nature.
And in the Spirit His divine life is transforming us to be mature sons - to be like Him.

The matter of growing in our co-death with Christ is seen in Romans 6. It is brought out well in the Recovery Version NT.
We are enabled to walk in "newness of life" more and more as we GROW in the likeness of His death.

We have been buried therefore with Him through baptism into His death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we might walk in newness of life.

For if we have grown together with Him in the likeness of His death, indeed we will also be in the likeness of His resurrection, (Rom. 6:4,5)


We are all still a work in progress. We must grow some each day in the effectiveness of being burined and raised with Christ the One living in our spirit.

"He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit" (1 Cor. 6:17)