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Galatians chapter 3 verse 13 says Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us.

For it is written, cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree.

This verse is one of the most powerful pictures, images that we see

in the Bible when it comes to our salvation. The reality is the law condemns us. God's law condemns us because it makes clear that we are

sinners, even our most concentrated attempts, our most wholehearted attempts to obey the law come up short.

We can't obey God's law that he's written on our hearts that he's given us in his word we constantly

fall short and as a result we stand before God guilty as law breakers every single one of

us guilty as a law breaker before a holy God.

Therefore, we deserve his judgment. He is just, our God is just, and his justice demands that we be found guilty before him.

Yet the beauty of Galatian 313 is that Christ has not left us alone under the curse of the law to experience the just judgment and wrath of God.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, verse 13, says by, how did you do that?

By becoming a curse for us.

Christ chose, Jesus chose to take the curse of the law upon himself in our place.

Just that is written, cursed is everyone who's hanged on a tree when Jesus went to the cross he was choosing to endure

the judgment we deserve as law breakers before a holy God in our place.

He had not broken any law and yet he stood in the place of lawbreakers

and went to the cross as a curse for us so that we could come out on the other side by faith in him.

This is what the rest of the chapter goes on to talk about, that through faith in him,

we can be saved from the curse of sin. Not based on anything we do but

solely on faith in him. So Christian rejoiced today. Just remember today that you were once under the

curse of the law, but Christ became a curse for you, so that you could be saved.

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