Transformation Through Death
When He wanted to abolish death, He came to the very nature that has a carnal understanding of death—the nature that rejects God and expresses this rejection through love of sin. When He took it in the Virgin's womb, He took it as it is to transfer it, through union with Him, to a new nature. Therefore, by imprinting upon it through union with His sonship to the Father, humanity in Christ because of the incarnation became "adopted"—that is, received "adoption" through union—and now calls the Father: "Abba, Father."
But the greatest obstacle before the Lord was death, and death is the fruit of sin or its wages, as the Apostle Paul says. So how does He abolish death from a human nature that did not know sin? It was tempted in every way like us, and tempted with every sin, but it did not sin. For that reason alone—that the Lord was tempted—the temptation of death came in the garden before the cross. The Lord endured the temptation to accept death, accepted death in the garden, and took the cup. Note that He freely offered the cup—the blood of the new covenant—in the upper room, but now He takes the cup in the temptation of death, which He enters freely and holy. Yet, He transforms His body and soul into the Adamic life that does not want God and rejects Him—the root of sin. This transformation occurs in His being and His divine incarnate hypostasis, thus making Himself the first Adam, but not Adam under the power of temptation and captivity, but Adam who lives through temptation to lift and remove its power. The Lord was like a man tempted to carry a great mountain, so He took the power of life from His divine hypostasis, accepted the power of death in His humanity, and the power of life destroyed the power of death. Therefore, He said: "It is finished," and when He bowed His head and gave up His spirit to the Father, He indicated His acceptance of voluntary death, which abolished the power of Adamic death that brought judgment and condemnation.
The Church teaches us this truth in a brief phrase: "O You who tasted death in the flesh at the ninth hour," because the Lord tasted death in the flesh to make this bodily death, in which the spirit separates from the body, the beginning of abolishing the death in which the spirit is reconciled with the body, restoring the lost human unity due to the fall.
From here begins the transformation in human existence—a transformation by accepting the death of the cross as the beginning of the new life. When we accept the death of the cross, we are qualified for the new life—the life in which we transform, due to clinging to the Lord, the power of natural death into a power of union with the Lord like a burning fire that consumes everything. But now, the fire is burning in the thorns, destroying what is useless—that is, sin.
#Transformation #Atonement #Crucifixion #ItIsFinished #NewCovenant #Sanctification
When He wanted to abolish death, He came to the very nature that has a carnal understanding of death—the nature that rejects God and expresses this rejection through love of sin. When He took it in the Virgin's womb, He took it as it is to transfer it, through union with Him, to a new nature. Therefore, by imprinting upon it through union with His sonship to the Father, humanity in Christ because of the incarnation became "adopted"—that is, received "adoption" through union—and now calls the Father: "Abba, Father."
But the greatest obstacle before the Lord was death, and death is the fruit of sin or its wages, as the Apostle Paul says. So how does He abolish death from a human nature that did not know sin? It was tempted in every way like us, and tempted with every sin, but it did not sin. For that reason alone—that the Lord was tempted—the temptation of death came in the garden before the cross. The Lord endured the temptation to accept death, accepted death in the garden, and took the cup. Note that He freely offered the cup—the blood of the new covenant—in the upper room, but now He takes the cup in the temptation of death, which He enters freely and holy. Yet, He transforms His body and soul into the Adamic life that does not want God and rejects Him—the root of sin. This transformation occurs in His being and His divine incarnate hypostasis, thus making Himself the first Adam, but not Adam under the power of temptation and captivity, but Adam who lives through temptation to lift and remove its power. The Lord was like a man tempted to carry a great mountain, so He took the power of life from His divine hypostasis, accepted the power of death in His humanity, and the power of life destroyed the power of death. Therefore, He said: "It is finished," and when He bowed His head and gave up His spirit to the Father, He indicated His acceptance of voluntary death, which abolished the power of Adamic death that brought judgment and condemnation.
The Church teaches us this truth in a brief phrase: "O You who tasted death in the flesh at the ninth hour," because the Lord tasted death in the flesh to make this bodily death, in which the spirit separates from the body, the beginning of abolishing the death in which the spirit is reconciled with the body, restoring the lost human unity due to the fall.
From here begins the transformation in human existence—a transformation by accepting the death of the cross as the beginning of the new life. When we accept the death of the cross, we are qualified for the new life—the life in which we transform, due to clinging to the Lord, the power of natural death into a power of union with the Lord like a burning fire that consumes everything. But now, the fire is burning in the thorns, destroying what is useless—that is, sin.
#Transformation #Atonement #Crucifixion #ItIsFinished #NewCovenant #Sanctification
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When He wanted to abolish death, He came to the very nature that has a carnal understanding of death—the nature that rejects God and expresses this rejection through love of sin. When He took it in the Virgin's womb, He took it as it is to transfer it, through union with Him, to a new nature. Therefore, by imprinting upon it through union with His sonship to the Father, humanity in Christ because of the incarnation became "adopted"—that is, received "adoption" through union—and now calls the Father: "Abba, Father."
But the greatest obstacle before the Lord was death, and death is the fruit of sin or its wages, as the Apostle Paul says. So how does He abolish death from a human nature that did not know sin? It was tempted in every way like us, and tempted with every sin, but it did not sin. For that reason alone—that the Lord was tempted—the temptation of death came in the garden before the cross. The Lord endured the temptation to accept death, accepted death in the garden, and took the cup. Note that He freely offered the cup—the blood of the new covenant—in the upper room, but now He takes the cup in the temptation of death, which He enters freely and holy. Yet, He transforms His body and soul into the Adamic life that does not want God and rejects Him—the root of sin. This transformation occurs in His being and His divine incarnate hypostasis, thus making Himself the first Adam, but not Adam under the power of temptation and captivity, but Adam who lives through temptation to lift and remove its power. The Lord was like a man tempted to carry a great mountain, so He took the power of life from His divine hypostasis, accepted the power of death in His humanity, and the power of life destroyed the power of death. Therefore, He said: "It is finished," and when He bowed His head and gave up His spirit to the Father, He indicated His acceptance of voluntary death, which abolished the power of Adamic death that brought judgment and condemnation.
The Church teaches us this truth in a brief phrase: "O You who tasted death in the flesh at the ninth hour," because the Lord tasted death in the flesh to make this bodily death, in which the spirit separates from the body, the beginning of abolishing the death in which the spirit is reconciled with the body, restoring the lost human unity due to the fall.
From here begins the transformation in human existence—a transformation by accepting the death of the cross as the beginning of the new life. When we accept the death of the cross, we are qualified for the new life—the life in which we transform, due to clinging to the Lord, the power of natural death into a power of union with the Lord like a burning fire that consumes everything. But now, the fire is burning in the thorns, destroying what is useless—that is, sin.
#Transformation #Atonement #Crucifixion #ItIsFinished #NewCovenant #Sanctification
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