WHAT IS INIQUITY AND WHY DID JESUS HAVE TO BE BORN
PERFECT?
2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us: “If any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all
things are become new.” And verse 18a tells us: “And all
things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ.”
How did Jesus, the Messiah, play a part in reconciling us to God?
A key to understanding how all this developed, is found
in Psalm 103:3a, which says God “forgiveth all thine iniquities.” Iniquities are
all the bad things that came from others in our past, passed down from
generation to generation through our family’s DNA all the way back to the first
human beings, Adam and Eve. Iniquities passed down are the left overs of all
the sins and results of sins passed on to you through the blood. They are NOT
you and God doesn’t want those iniquities to hang on to you!
He says He forgives them, and that means they can be
utterly gone! Vanished forever! But He had to find a legal way to accomplish
this and of course He already had it in mind.
Forgiving is not just saying, “I’m not going to look at
it anymore; I’m just letting it go.” Nope, it doesn’t work that way.
The word, forgiving, is made up of two words, “for” and
“giving.” God kept His own Word, as He always does. When it says “God
forgiveth”, we must understand that it means God is in favor of giving. He gave
his only begotten son, Jesus, a perfect human being with NO iniquity in his
blood, because his blood came from God Almighty, Elohim the creator!
Only a human being with a perfect bloodline, could take
on the iniquities and be a substitute for all of us! God gave all that iniquity
from all generations, and He was “for” “giving” it all to Jesus, because He
knew that a perfect human had to be sacrificed for the generational sins that
the devil inflicted on all humanity. And Jesus had to be born into the earth even
from conception to birth as a tiny baby, to cover for all iniquity that would
already be developing in the embryo.
We say, “But a baby is so innocent!” Yes, but all human
babies are born with issues; they’re called iniquities. They usually don’t
present until later in life but they are already there. We know that as innocent
as a baby is, there is a sin nature in the blood and even babies need to be
reared in a Godly way until they can understand spiritual matters and can make
ethical choices for God and against the devil. I’ve been told that the age a
child can begin to understand things outside of the natural is usually around
eight years old.
But God tells us right away in Genesis 8:21 that children
are not born innocent. “And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and
the Lord said in his heart, ‘I will not again curse the ground any
more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from
his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have
done.’”
God said He wouldn’t do another flood to wipe out
humanity, but He did give us a way to escape from evil, and that’s to accept
Jesus Christ as Lord and release all our sin and iniquity that Jesus already
knew about and took to the cross to be destroyed so that we could be free.
God tells us the raw truth in Isaiah 53:6 “All we like
sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the Lord hath laid on him [Jesus] the iniquity of
us all.” It had to be done this way.
God puts meaning to every word He’s inspired to be
written in His Holy Bible. And it’s interesting that in Isaiah 53:5b He says:
“He [Jesus] was bruised for our iniquities.” A bruise is when there
is bleeding that is under the skin, in a sense, hidden, not blood that is not freely
spurting out or running out on the surface, and that’s how iniquity is, under
the surface, and we are often unaware of personal tendencies toward sins and
iniquities that have been passed down to us from past generations.
But once we see those iniquities, we can call them out!
We recognize what they are and why they are, and we don’t have to carry out any
of it anymore. Jesus came to earth as a tiny baby so that he could take every
single thing that attacks us from conception to death, he took it, and it
doesn’t belong to us, so we can throw it back at the devil, where it originated
and where it belongs! No more false thinking, wrong reactions, demonic
influences, weaknesses of will – ALL of the fleshly garbage and all of the
demonic pestering from within, gone in Christ!
God knows that almost every addiction comes from a false
choice for some relief, almost every act of disobedience to God is because of
learned mistrust and fear of rejection, and stubbornness from fear of someone
putting you in bondage or oppression of some sort. God knows better than anyone
why we made the choices we did; it was in the blood, and when we chose wrongly,
He was already ready to forgive. But we had to ask.
Jesus willingly came to earth and knew he would have to take
it all. It was the only way we could get rid of generational sins and
iniquities, and be redeemed back to God. Jesus, like every human, had a choice,
and he chose to save us. Jesus chose God’s way, unlike Adam, who chose his own,
which in reality was not his own, but the one originated by the devil himself.
The devil’s plans were and still are to destroy the earth and the humans God
created.
But Jesus also knew that for himself and for us, even the
worst thing the devil could do to us, which the devil thought was death, would
not have to be destruction, if we only believed God’s truth.
So, our God offered Jesus. “For God so loved the world,
that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). “That if thou shalt confess
with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Rom. 10:9).
Jesus chose to take our place, and he suffered all that
people would ever suffer here on earth! But he was raised from the dead, as we
will be too. And when we believe in Jesus and take him for our Lord, all sin
and iniquity is wiped out and we become new, able to grow in faith, love, and
wisdom throughout the rest of our lives if we so choose. So, every day we can
choose God’s ways.
“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he
is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are
become new. And all things [these new things] are of God, who hath
reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of
reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:17-18).
Love, Carolyn
Learn to grow more and more into the ways of God, as a
new person in Christ.
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