TOPIC: DIVINE EXCHANGE (PART 2)

TEXT: ISAIAH 53:4-6, 2 COR 5:17-18

Once in a while, we get something we need to exchange for something else, it could be an oversize per of shoe, you bought and you need to go and exchange it for another. So when we purchase something, an exchange takes place. We exchange money for some commodity or items. We walk down

the street and exchange smiles with someone. So to exchange one thing in return for another. Our lives are marred by sins and need to be exchanged. Let me remind us that the Christian life is an exchanged life. That is we give up something we don’t want or need to gain something better in Christ Jesus. So God made divine exchange when Christ died on the cross; our sins were exchange for his righteousness, he was punished so that we might be saved that we might be forgiven. He was wounded so that we might by be healed, that is He bore our sins in His body in the tree that we being dead to sin should live unto  righteousness, by whose stripes ye were healed 1 peter 2:24.

DYNAMIC PRAISE TEAM MINISTERING

So Jesus Christ died our death that we might share in His life. He took away the destroyer of our life, the stealler of our destiny, the killer of our dream; He took them away and gives us life eternal. John 10:10. He said he came to steal, kill and destroy but I came that ye may have life and have it more abundantly.

Christ was made a curse, so that we could be a blessing – gal 3:13-14. He took our shame that we might share in his glory. Jesus accepts our rejection, that we might be accepted by His Father. Matthew 27:45-47, Eph 1:3-4.

This is Divine exchange, that what was due to happen to us was transformed to Christ. In other words the innocent would bear the punishment of the guilty would receive all the benefit due to the just. So through Christ Jesus, God made all the exchange for our salvation at the cross.

MINISTERING

·       He bore our grief

·       He carried our sorrow

·       He was wounded for our transgression, he was bruised for our iniquities, He was punished, so that we could have peace.

·       No wonder the bible says in 2cor 5:17 if any man be in Christ Jesus, He is a new creature, old things has passed away, behold all things have become new. This is the Divine exchange that any man that is in Christ. Christ Jesus will take your old life to himself and give you His new life in God. That is he substituted your sinful life with His righteous life.

CHILD DEDICATION

You become the righteous and He is made sin in our place. That was why he cried on the cross my father, my father why has thou forsaken me. This happened when the exchange was made on the cross that God saw us righteous and saw his only begotten son a sin. He walked out of him and accept us wile on the cross when Jesus saw us with the Father, He said “it is finished” the exchange have been completed.

Have you been washed by his blood? Have your sin been exchanged for the righteousness of Jesus Christ. Do you have Jesus in your life? If not pray this prayer with me:

1.    Father, I am a sinner, have mercy on me and forgive all my sins in Jesus name.