We learn four things from this passage
1. We are poor sinners
- we are bankrupt of all things necessary for this life
- we are bankrupt of love toward God and all spiritual strength
- we pursued sin at mad regularity and invent ways to hide our sins
- we are as poor as poor can be
2. Jesus is rich
- everything we see and experience in this like is but a tiny minuscule fraction of what he could have created if he wanted to
- such is his wealth, he can speak worlds into existence with a thought
- he is in sovereign control all things
- he had wealth before wealth even existed - that being his perfect unmarred fellowship with the Father
3. For our sakes, Jesus became poor
- Jesus' poverty was voluntary, premeditated - with purpose and foresight he decided to become poor
- Jesus was a poor man in that he was born in an occupied country and did not have the simple luxuries we are accustomed to in this world
- the Son of Man has no place to lay his head
- to get to his greatest poverty, fast forward to the garden of Gethsemane where he thinks of the cup of divine wrath he will have to drink
- his own creatures then take him captive and he is robbed of his reputation in a farcical trial
- he was beaten and they spit in his face
- they crucified him
- even the Father turned his back on him (his one bit of wealth that he treasured above all was taken away from him)
4. Believing sinners have wealth because of the poverty of Jesus Christ
- such is the wealth that we have that there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus
- we will spend an eternity in a new heaven and earth with those who have never been forsaken of the Lord - except One |
