Galatians 3:13-14 ‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ;’

DAILY READING – – Mark 9:2-50; 2 Samuel 22; Hosea 2:2-23

The Auschwitz death camp was a place of evil, where Hitler killed many people. Yet in that dark place also, some amazing acts of heroism and self-sacrifice took place. One of these was the sacrifice made by a priest named Maximilian Kobe. Ordained a Franciscan friar, Maximilian earned a PhD in philosophy and travelled widely building monasteries. When the Nazis invaded his native Poland, Maximilian began to criticize the Nazis through his books and essays. As a result in February of 1941, he was arrested by the Gestapo and his monastery was shut down. Within a couple of days, he was transferred to the infamous Auschwitz death camp, as prisoner number 16670.
While in the camp, in July 1941, Maximilian came to his ultimate test of faith. Ten prisoners had succeeded in escaping. In order to deter other outbreaks, the Nazi guards picked ten other innocent prisoners to be starved to death in an underground bunker. One of the men chosen cried out that he had a wife and children. On hearing this Maximilian, offered to take the place of this man among the condemned. So, along with the nine others, Maximilian was thrown into the bunker and left to die a slow, agonizing death. While in the Bunker Maximilian led the condemned men in prayers. Without food or water, after some days, these men eventually began to die off. Maximilian was the last to die, remaining alive even after two weeks, until the Nazis gave him a lethal injection that killed him. The man whose place Maximilian took in death would later live on to be 93 years old. And for the rest of his life, he never forgot what Maximilian did for him. This man dedicated much of his life in telling the world about Maximilian’s act of kindness and sacrifice.
Galatians 3:13-14 says ‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ;’
The greatest event in the world’s history was the drama at Calvary where Jesus took our place in death. Jesus suffered a horrible death so that all of mankind could be reconciled to the Father. We have all sinned and deserved judgment. Yet, God, the Father, sent His only Son to satisfy the demands of justice and take the punishment we deserved. His death on the cross is God’s statement of love to the world. On the cross, Christ became our replacement. He became a curse for us so that the blessings of grace might come upon us (Gal 3:13).
In His body, Jesus took on the sin of the world and paid the price of all humanity.. The spiral of sin that began in Genesis 3 was stopped by the blood Jesus shed on the cross. And with His victory at the cross, Christ commanded us to go into all the world and tell everyone the good news of redemption. We now have the responsibility to tell the world about what The Lord has done for us.
In Luke 8:39. Jesus told the man He had healed, “‘Return home and tell how much God has done for you.’ and so the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him”. Also the woman at the well immediately after her encounter with Jesus began to tell everyone in the city about Him. And so should we. We should go about telling everyone about what our savior has done for us.
Indeed Jesus has done great and mighty things for us. Therefore we should not keep quiet, rather we should continually tell the world of His goodness, His kindness and faithfulness in taking our place in death and giving us the gift of eternal life. Indeed by His Blood shed at Calvary, we have been ushered into a new life and new season of unending glory.

PRAYER; Lord I thank You for the price You paid at the cross for my deliverance and salvation. Please grant me the grace to continually share the good news of redemption with everyone that comes my way in Jesus Name.

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For you to enjoy victory in the Kingdom of God, you need to develop a Kingdom mindset, that thinks in line with the Word of God. – WORDBITE 222