JESUS: OUR BURNT OVER PLACE

JESUS: OUR BURNT OVER PLACE
Monday, 11th May 2020
Pastor Victor

John 3:16‭-‬17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Jesus: Our Burnt Over Place. What a beautiful description of the finished work of Christ. One of the offerings in the book of Leviticus is the “burnt offering”. In this offering, after the animal is killed, the whole animal is burnt to ashes as an offering to God. And in this instance, divine acceptance is received on behalf of the offerer.

Several years ago, I read an article in “Our Daily Bread Devotional” with this title, “Jesus: Our Burnt Over Place”, that greatly inspired me. In that article was a story told about certain guys who were caught up in a fire outbreak. And where they were at the time, the fire was coming toward their direction to destroy them. As they were caught up in this dilemma, they went ahead and set a fire on an area of vegetation in the direction in which the fire was coming.

After the place got burnt, they went and stood at that burnt over place. As the fire approached the burnt over place, it ceased and could not burn them because there was nothing to burn as the place has been burnt already by the fire they set themselves. I hope by now you are getting the message?

Jesus on the cross became our “Burnt over Place”. He was consumed by the fire of God’s judgment and great indignation and wrath. He consumed all of God’s condemnation in His body till there was nothing to be consumed again, and He cried out with a loud voice that, “It is finished”. Today, anyone who believe in Jesus for His salvation is standing at the “burnt over place”; and he cannot be burnt again by the fire of God’s judgment. In fact, it is not possible because there is nothing to be burnt.

Every believer in Christ is standing at the “burnt over place”. Now to preach that the believer will go to hell if he sins, is to blindly and bluntly deny this truth that Jesus has become our burnt over place. For the believer in Christ, there is therefore now no more condemnation. The place where we stand has already be burnt and the fire of God’s judgment cannot burn us again. We are forever safe in “the burnt over place”. Praise God!

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