Two people can be in the same room physically, even touching, yet not agreeing with each other in their thinking or their emotions.
      They could be arguing, even hating one another.

      That is soul realm separation.

Physical separation does not imply soul realm separation.
                      Physical separation can be a matter of degrees.

Being so conscious of the material world,
         people living in that spiritual concept are not always able to grasp it.

If sin is only wrong doing, then 2 Corintians 5:21 doesn't make sense.

        But when sin is also a state of being, a state of spiritual      
        separation from God, then it can be understood.

Jesus became as though He had sinned.

He took all of the penalties upon the cross that He would have received had He sinned.

                     But He did not sin,
                            He did not deserve the penalties.
                            They were our penalties.
                             We should have died instead.

"He hath made Him to be sin for us,
       who knew no sin. . ."  2 Corinthians 5:21

Jesus knew no sin.   Satan had no claim on His life.

So Jesus Christ was a suitable substitute for us who did deserve to die.

If Jesus had done all of the things that God calls sin
    while hanging on the cross, He couldn't have been a
         suitable substitute for us.

He would have had to die for His own sin,
      just as we should die for our own sin.

Jesus didn't do wrong things;
        He was punished as though He had done wrong things.

He did suffer the penalty of our sin for us;
       He became as though He had sinned.

The definition of sin has been said to be wrong doing.
         We have trouble explaining what it is to become
        wrong doing.
That is different than doing wrong doing.

If wrong doing is the definition for the word sin in
    2 Corinthians 5:21, how could Jesus do wrong on the cross while
    He was nailed down?

Just as Nicodemus had trouble understanding
           what it was to be born again,
we have trouble understanding
           what it is to become sin.

Jesus Christ, the righteous advocate, went to the cross.

"For He [the Father] has made Him [Jesus] to be sin for us,
who knew no sin; that we might be made the rightousness
of God in Him."
                            2 Corinthians 5:21

Jesus was born of the Spirit of God,
        because He was born of the family of God.

Jesus was not born into Adam's family like we are.
        Christ has always been a member of God's family.

Jesus was conceived in the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit.

He was born

"not of the blood,

nor of the will of the flesh,

nor of the will of man,

but of God." 

John 1:13

Jesus Christ has always been righteous, He was righteous from eternity past, when He was with the Father, and the Holy Spirit.

". . .And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous."
1 John 2:1

According to Romans 10:9-10, ". . .For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation."

We have sought first the Kingdom of God in our lives, the righteousness and all these things have been added unto us!

Matthew 6:33, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

                        Jesus was preaching to the Jews who hadn't been born again when He said this.

                       We as born again Christians have tried to apply this to ourselves when we are already born again and have already received His righteousness.

Whenever we begin to live, and walk, and talk righteousness,
   there will always be those who will try to pull us back done.

Matthew 5:10,
"Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for their's is the kingdom of heaven."

                     Persecution comes with it!

The fifth Beatitude, Matthew 5:6,
"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
for they shall be filled."

Jesus said that those who hunger and thirst after righteousness
would [not could or should] be filled.

In the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew, Chapter Five,
Jesus teaches His disciples about entering into the kingdom of God
to know Him and to be known of Him.

Now that we are born again,
now that we have been reconciled to God by His Spirit,
the Bible says that we are the righteousness of God in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:21
"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him".

Before being born again, the Bible called us sinners, not because we transgressed God's moral conduct [although we had sinned according to Romans 3:23, "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God,"] but because we were cut off from God, spirit from spirit.

We are now born again and we are in Christ.

We have gotten out of the world into Christ.

Happy New Year 20

13!