It is revelatory for us to trace through the New Testament and find the word “made,” and to observe how our Lord Jesus Christ, the great Creator of all, humbled Himself, died on Calvary’s cross and arose again from the dead to save, justify (declare us righteous) and glorify every sinner who will believe.

Paul says of Christ: “All things were created by Him (Jesus Christ)  and for Him” (Col. 1:16), and John adds by inspiration: “All things were made by Him; and without Him was not anything made that was made… The world was made by Him” (John 1:3, 10).

How wonderful that He, the Creator of all, came to be one with us — yes, and one of us! John tells us again that the Maker of all who “is spirit” (John 4:4) was “made flesh” (John 1:14). Paul declares that “when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, (humanly) made of a woman, made under the law…” (Gal. 4:4), that He “made Himself of no reputation …and was made in the likeness of men” (Phil. 2:6,7).

In the Hebrews we see that Jesus Christ was “made [for] a little [while] lower than the angels for the suffering of death” (Heb. 2:9). More than that, he declares that our Lord was “made a curse for us” (Gal. 3:13), to redeem us from ‘the curse of the law’ God that called for death of the law-breakers; God the Father “made Him (Jesus) to be sin for us…” (2 Cor. 5:21) and to bear the death penalty for us.

Thus in one stroke, at Calvary’s cross, our Lord, the great Creator of all, bore the penalty for sin that would have sunk a world to hell, and for this “God also hath highly exalted Him” (Phil. 2:9), having “raised him from the dead and set Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places, far above all…” (Eph. 1:20-21).

“God hath made that same Jesus… both Lord and Christ” (Acts 2:36) so that now He has been “made higher than the heavens” (Heb. 7:26).

As a result of the victorious cross-work of Jesus Christ the simplest believer in this mighty Savior is immediately “made… accepted ‘in the Beloved One (in Christ)” (Eph. 1:6) and

“made [to] sit… in heavenly places ‘in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:6).

The believer is “made the righteousness of God ‘in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21), (so) “that being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life” (Tit. 3:7).