It is thrilling to trace through the New Testament and find the word βmade,β and to observe how our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Creator of all, humbled Himself, died on Calvaryβs cross and arose again from the dead to save, justify and glorify sinners.
St. Paul says of Christ: βAll things were created by Him and for Himβ (Col. 1:16), and St. John adds by inspiration: βAll things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was madeβ¦ The world was made by Himβ (John 1:3,10).
How wonderful it is, then, that He, the Creator of all, came to be one with us β yes, one of us! John tells us again that the Maker of all was βmade fleshβ (John 1:14) and Paul declares that βwhen the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the lawβ¦β (Gal. 4:4), that He βmade Himself of no reputation β¦and was made in the likeness of menβ (Phil. 2:6,7). In his letter to the Hebrews he adds that Christ was βmade [for] a little [while] lower than the angels for the suffering of deathβ (Heb. 2:9). More than that, he declares that our Lord was βmade a curse for usβ (Gal. 3:13) to redeem us from the curse of the law, and that God βmade Him to be sin for usβ¦β (II Cor. 5:21).
Thus in one stroke, at Calvary , our Lord, the great Creator, bore the penalty for sin that would have sunk a world to hell, and for this βGod also hath highly exalted Himβ (Phil. 2:9), having βraised him from the dead and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above allβ¦β (Eph. 1:20,21). βGod hath made that same Jesusβ¦ both Lord and Christβ (Acts 2:36) so that now He has been βmade higher than the heavensβ (Heb. 7:26).
As a result the simplest believer in this mighty Savior is βmadeβ¦ accepted in the Beloved Oneβ (Eph. 1:6) and βmade [to] sitβ¦ in heavenly places in Christ Jesusβ (Eph. 2:6). He is βmade the righteousness of God in Himβ (II Cor. 5:21), βthat being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal lifeβ (Titus 3:7). source
