Alpha Life
Posted: Sunday, July 06, 2008
by Viktor Saari
Viktor Saari Ministries
Why is the name of Jesus so powerful? Is it because He was given the name by His Father? Yes, but understand He had to fulfill His name. He had to become what His name represented, and He did this by going to the cross. The cross was the beginning act of what we were to become come and the cost of breaking the chain which held us captive. The cross is more glorious than we could ever imagine; if we could only grasp the freedom that has been given to the believer.
It was in this time span that Jesus became the Alpha and Omega. It has often been accepted that Revelation's calling Jesus the Alpha and Omega was simply a reference to His omnipotence, His greatness. That Jesus was our all in all, our everything. But, this representation of His greatness comes in the words, I am.
Alpha and Omega represents what was brought and that which was taken away. We sometimes misunderstand and think that our sins are "covered," when in the reality they have been done away with. Sin does not exist anymore; it died in Jesus the day of the cross. He paid the price for all we had done or would do, in the sin realm. This is clearly seen in Hebrews 9:26:
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Sin has been put away; it is no longer a factor. It is only by the way of Satan's deception that we feel as though sin is alive and well. It is by this deception that we are held captive, and feel as though we are "unworthy". But the sin world died that day of the cross and Jesus was the last to die to sin. This is what Colossians 2:13 means when it says, you being dead to your sins. You and your sinful nature, whether you're a believer or un-believer died that day. Jesus became the ultimate sacrifice and took you and your sinful nature in His body and when He died, so did you.
II Corinthians 5:21 gives us this astounding fact:
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.
When Jesus took the whole sin nature of the world and died with it, He tasted death for everyone a final time. You can no longer die to sin; you are dead to it already. This is why there is no longer any fear of death; and why we are no longer subject to bondage as it says in Hebrews 2:15. It would be a total contradiction to fear death, if you were already dead. This is what the un-believer is, dead to sin. He is not living, he is in the grave. This natural life is not "life", but rather a life-line to life. It is a last hope, a last chance to step out of the grave, if the unbeliever so chooses.
But now to the question the believer faces. Why is the fact that sin is dead and that sin and death have both been abolished as II Timothy says, of importance to the believer? Very simply, you cannot have sin consciousness. If you do you are held in bondage, you are unable to experience the true freedom Jesus has given to you. You as a believer need to realise every mistake you make or have made was dead long before you ever made it. The mistake cannot hold you in a feeling of unworthiness. It has been put in the grave, totally abolished. Not just covered, but taken away.
The world of sin no longer exists, but has been dead for over two-thousand years. The only thing God judges you on is what you do in life. There is now only one life and it is through Jesus, our Lord and Saviour. He is the first begotten of the dead, as it says in Colossians 1:15. He became the first born-again Christian. Life began the day He rose again. A new world was created that day, one that is only for the believer. The perfect creation of man was remade that day. What is often misrepresented though is what it truly means to be born-again. We often think that we are "BORN" in this natural life and that we are re-born in Jesus. But how can this be if we are "BORN" into sin, which is dead?
You cannot be considered re-born if you have never lived. So the question is when did the life end that we are to be re-born into? It was the day Adam sinned. That was the day all of man-kind died. But, the good news is that Jesus by going to the cross bought this life back. We as Christians are reborn into the state of glory Adam had. Adam gave the devil authority over the world, but Jesus got it back with His blood. As Christian's we have life and it is in the life of Jesus that we live. Galatians 2:19-21 shows us that we are dead through the law. But, because our old nature was crucified with Christ the day of the cross, we have life when we let Him live through us.
We were raised up together with Him. We sit in the same heavenly place He sits in, as it says in Ephesians 2:6. This is your standing. Do not let the devil deceive you. Your sin was done away with long before you were ever born. Never let the devil remind you of past, present or future sins. They do not live, but are rather in a grave that was closed 2,000 years ago. They are the omega, final and over. There is now only one life, the Alpha life. Which Jesus brought to you the day He rose again. It is the new beginning you have longed for.
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