Join Cherri Campbell in an enlightening episode of Victorious Faith as she delves into the mystery of what transpired from the Cross to the Throne. This message unpacks the legalities involved in God’s redemption plan, highlighting the strategic covenant with Abram and Jesus Christ’s unique qualifications as Redeemer. Discover how these ancient truths shape our modern faith and provide insights into living a victorious Christian life.
00:00:00 Introduction to What Happened from the Cross to the Throne
Good morning. Welcome to Victorious Faith. I’m Cherri Campbell. This morning I’m going to continue sharing with you the message that I began sharing with you yesterday that I preached in one of our Victorious Faith services called What Happened from the Cross to the Throne. And this is a study on the death, burial, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. So join me now in our live service for part two of What Happened from the Cross to the Throne. Okay, so now we have Adam under Satan and mankind under Satan. Now they have become slaves. Slaves to Satan. Slaves to sin and slaves to the curse of sin and death, which produces sickness and disease, produces poverty, lack and hunger. Is God at fault for the hunger? No. Is God at fault for sickness and disease? No. No, it was the cause of the fall and sin that came through Adam and Eve. And so Jesus was qualified. I’m talking about the legalities. So now God is legally kicked out. So what I’m trying to show you is God could not legally just come 4,000 years and send Jesus as a baby born of a virgin. he would be intruding in territory that was not his own. And Satan could have legally kicked him out, said, no, you don’t have any right to come in here. This is my territory. And he had to hold God to legalities. And so God had to work legally to get access. So what did he do? Just like Satan went to a man and got the authority from a man, Jesus did the same thing. But he didn’t use deception. He didn’t come in the form of a serpent. He came to a man named Abram and said, Hi, Abram, I’m God. No secrets. No hiding of his identity. I’m God. And I offer you a deal. You make this deal with me. You and I come into a covenant together. We cut blood together. You become my covenant partner. And I’ll bless you. I’ll make your name great. And all the earth will be blessed through you. Abram.
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It’s a deal. I’ll do it. Cut the animals and then cut circumcision. Sealed a covenant with God. Now God has legality. He’s in partnership with the man. Legalities are so important. He’s in partnership with the man. But still, another thing had to be done. He had to ask Abram for his son in order to have the right to give his son. Because that’s all covenant work. Because when one covenant partner gives, that’s what covenant means. What one partner gives, the other gives. And so he is really sneaky. He said, Abram, I want your son. Okay. Okay. Abram did it. Gave him back as though he were raised from the dead. But that was the legal right that produced 2,000 years after Abram, the right for Jesus to come. Because he had legalities. And through the line of Abram, through the line of David, he had a son born in the earth as a man. Hallelujah. As Billy Brim says, oh, what a plan. And oh, what a planner. I mean, who would have thought of that? He had to have a legal right. And he had to get the access to come back into the earth. Okay, I’ll be born as a man. Through my covenant partner. And I’ll have a right to come into the earth and redeem mankind as a man. What a plan. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So Jesus had the right to come in, be born of a woman because God made covenant with Abram. It gave him a legal access. Glory to God. But then Jesus was also qualified because he was sinless. He committed no sin. If he had sinned, his death would have only paid for his own. Everybody would have to pay for their own sin. But because he was sinless, his death paid for all mankind together. And the Holy Spirit testified in Hebrews 4.15, Jesus was without sin. Jesus said of himself, John 14.30, Satan has found nothing in me. And even in Luke 23, Pilate and Herod both testified, we have found no basis for the death penalty. There is no cause for death. Pilate and Herod testified in Luke 23 verses 13 to 22. But there was one more thing Jesus had to do to qualify. He had to be born as a man to get into the earth. He had to be sinless to be qualified as a lamb, a sacrificial lamb. One more thing he had to do, though. Before he could even go to the cross, he had to pass the same test that the first Adam failed. You know, when you go to school, if you fail a test, what happens? You take it again. And if you fail it again, you take it again. And so the first Adam failed the test of temptation. He was tempted and he fell into sin. Well, in order to qualify to be the Redeemer, Jesus had to take the same test. And he had to pass it. So we read in Matthew chapter 4 and Luke chapter 4, for 40 days he was in the wilderness. And Satan tested and tempted him with sin. And because he stood and resisted and said, it is written, it is written, it is written until Satan left him because he gave up. He couldn’t think of anything else to say. He couldn’t think of anything else to say. Isn’t that great? I love it. The devil ran out of things to say. So he left. Well, he passed the test with an A plus, 100%. Now he’s qualified. Now he can go to the cross. He is qualified to be a redeemer. And I think most Christians don’t even realize all these things. These were three things Jesus had to do to be qualified to go to the cross or he could never have gone to the cross for us. But he did it. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Glory to God. So Jesus was the last Adam, 1 Corinthians 15, 47. The first man, Adam, was of the dust of the earth. The second man, Adam, was from heaven. So he was the last Adam and passed the test of the first Adam. Now let’s go to the cross. And I want to point out to you something that I pointed out on our radio program is And if we look at Isaiah 53, which for sake of time, I can’t read to you Isaiah 53, or I’d love to, but you know, Isaiah 53 verses one through 12. And you know, you just go home and read it. Isaiah 53. But let me read to you verse 9. Now, most every English translation translates the word death as singular death. But the Hebrew is actually plural. And there are a few translations that are rare that will actually make it the way the Hebrew is written. Death is with an S. Deaths. The Hebrew word is a plural word. And so he was assigned a grave with the wicked and with the rich in his deaths. With a plural S. So that means there’s more than one death that we’re looking at here. And so we need to understand this. Jesus did not only die in the body. And that’s what a lot of Christians also only think about. They only are aware of a physical bodily death. But it was more than that because we are made in the image of God. And how many parts are we? We are, number one, spirit and soul and body. Was it only the body that fell? It was the spirit and soul and body, all three. So if only the body got redeemed, then what happens to the spirit and soul? They’re not redeemed. So he had to die spirit and soul and body. And this is another thing you don’t hear in most resurrection messages. You only look at the death of the body and the suffering of the body. But the suffering was also spiritual and soul. And the death was also spirit and soul because he had to pay for our redemption, spirit and soul and body. Otherwise, our bodies would be saved and our spirit and soul wouldn’t. So we have to understand that Jesus died in spirit and soul and body and he suffered and in spirit and in soul and in body. In Isaiah 53, 11, it says, after the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life. It doesn’t say the suffering of his body. Most people only look at the suffering of his body, but it says after the suffering of his soul. Where was the suffering of the soul? It began in the garden of Gethsemane, Luke 22. Let me back up. There’s a scripture in Corinthians, I believe. I need to get this reference. For some reason, it slips my mind. I like to quote this verse. That if we would share in his sufferings, we will also share in his glory. Romans 8. Romans 8. If we share in his sufferings, we will also share in his glory. Okay. Now, a lot of Christians think that the suffering of Jesus that we share in… Is sickness. Is that true? Disease. Is that true? How about poverty? Those are not the sufferings of Jesus. He did not ever suffer sickness except on the cross where he bore it. He did not ever suffer poverty except on the cross where he bore it. Those are not the sufferings of Jesus. Let me back up and show you the sufferings of Jesus that we are supposed to share. There’s a difference between his sufferings in his death, which was the price for our redemption. And there’s a difference between the sufferings of his life in ministry and And we are to share in the sufferings of his life and ministry. Not his death. Because his death was what he paid for us. He did it for us. We could never do it. But what he did in life, what he did in life was for our example. What he did in death was for our substitution. Amen. Got it? His life was our example. His death was our substitution. So there were three sufferings in his life that we read about. And the sufferings in his life are basically, one is persecution. We know he was persecuted. Two, it says in Hebrews that he suffered being tempted. Well, you don’t suffer giving in to temptation. You suffer overcoming temptation, resisting temptation. Right. He didn’t succumb. He didn’t give in. He overcame. He resisted. He said, no, that was suffering. So he suffered. Hebrews chapter two is where I believe it is. Hebrews two. And he suffered being tempted to 18. He himself suffered when he was tempted. Hebrews 2, 18. So he suffered being tempted and resisting, not succumbing, but resisting and overcoming and being victorious over temptation. Two, he suffered being persecuted. And three, in the garden of Gethsemane, he suffered in dying to self-will. Not my will, but your will be done. What you just heard was part two of a message that I preached in one of our victorious faith services called what happened from the cross to the throne. And we will continue this message again tomorrow. So join me again tomorrow. And remember, God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored by the Lord.
