When jesus was crucified, He became our sin. He became our sin so we would not have to live in sin. He took all the curse of the law. He took the punishment we would have deserved. He was chastened by God so we would not fear God’s punishing us. When Jesus cried, “Father, why have you forsaken Me,” He was experiencing what we would have experienced had we died in our sin. He was separated from God so we would never be separated from God. Our sins put Him in the grave.

We know that after Jesus was crucified, He obtained righteousness by faith. Paul said that he didn’t want to be found in a righteousness of his own. He wanted the righteousness that came by the faith of Jesus. You see, Jesus had to overcome our sins by His faith. He trusted God to raise Him up in righteousness. It is that righteousness that is at work in us. Paul went on to say, “And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith” (Phil. 3:9).

It is that very power, the resurrection power, the power in the righteousness of God, that exploded in Jesus and raised Him from the death of sin. It is by this power that He took the keys of death and hell. It is by this power that He conquered every principality, every power, and every name that is named. And it is this power that is at work in us who believe—this same power that raised Jesus from the dead. Paul prayed that we would get a revelation of this so our lives would be empowered by the resurrection power of Jesus.

If resurrection power did not fail Jesus, then it CANNOT, it WIIL NOT, fail you or I. When we link our faith and hope to the resurrection of Jesus, we can’t help BUT WIN!