The Faith of Jesus - Alonzo T. Jones

edeem them that are under the curse because of
being under the law.
But for whomsoever it was done, and
whatsoever is accomplished by the doing of it,
there must never be forgotten the fact that, in order
to the doing of that which was done, He had to be
made that which those already were for whom the
thing was done.
Any man, therefore, in all the world, who
knows guilt, by that very thing, knows also what
Jesus felt for him, and by this knows how close
Jesus has come to him. Whosoever knows what is
condemnation, in that knows exactly what Jesus
felt for him, and so knows how thoroughly Jesus is
able to sympathize with him and to redeem him.
Whosoever knows the curse of sin, “the plague of
his own heart,” in that can know exactly what Jesus
experienced for him, and how entirely Jesus
identified himself, in very experience, with him.
Bearing guilty, being under condemnation, and
so under the weight of the curse, Jesus, a whole
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