Walking In Abundance- Part 25
November 9, 2026 – 3:47 amJesus made the great exchange for you and me!
Let’s consider a mental picture of Jesus as He hung on the cross resulting in the Great Exchange.
Consider the poverty curse I wrote about yesterday. Hunger—Jesus was hungry; He hadn’t eaten for nearly 24 hours. Thirst—one of His last utterances was, “I’m thirsty.” Nakedness—They’d taken all His clothes from Him. Lack of all things—He didn’t have a garment to be buried in; He didn’t have a tomb to be buried in. He was totally and absolutely and utterly destitute.
Why was that? It was no accident. It was the outworking of a Divine purpose. It was the outworking of that aspect of the exchange which relates to abundance.
Jesus took upon Himself the poverty curse. He took upon Himself in its totality; He was hungry, He was thirsty, He was naked, He lacked everything. He exhausted the poverty curse. I want to emphasize that. He didn’t just take part of the poverty curse; He took the totality of it. Every aspect of it found its final, total fulfillment and outworking in Jesus as He hung there on the cross, visibly made a curse for you and me.
He took the sickness curse. He took the guilt curse. He took the rejection curse. He took the death curse. But the particular curse that I want to emphasize, that poverty curse. The curse of absolute poverty was visited upon Jesus and He totally exhausted it. He took our poverty that we in return might have His abundance.
The outworking of Jesus taking the poverty curse on our behalf is clearly stated by Paul in two chapters of 2 Corinthians—two Scripture texts.
The perfect description of Jesus taking the poverty curse is written by Paul led by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Corinthians chapter 8:
9 “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.” (NIV)
You see the clear exchange. Jesus was rich with all the riches of Heaven. Even in His earthly ministry, He was not poor. He ministered out of abundance. He never lacked. He could feed 10,000 people with five loaves and two fishes. When He needed money for taxes, He could send Peter to catch a fish in the Sea of Galilee, a fish without any bait, with just a hook, and out of the fish came the money that was needed to pay the taxes.
So, Jesus was not poor during His earthly ministry. He didn’t have a lot of cash. But when He went to the cross, then He became poor. Not merely did He become poor, but He took the poverty curse. He became poor so that we, through His poverty, might become rich. That’s the exchange. He took our poverty that we might enjoy His riches.
Also, Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Corinthians chapter 9:
8 “God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.” (NIV)
This Scripture uses the word “abound” twice. God makes all grace abound toward us that we in turn may abound to every good need, and there is no exception. There is nothing left out. To reiterate those Words—God is able to make all grace abound to you so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound to every good work.
In the original Greek, the word “all” occurs five times; the word “abound” occurs twice. Can there be a stronger presentation of abundance than that verse, and that’s the result of the death of Jesus on the cross. That’s the result of Jesus bearing the poverty curse on our behalf. The answer is abundance.
God’s abundance is made available to you and me. This provision of God was given to us when the poverty curse was taken by Jesus. That Great Exchange allowed God’s abundance to be made available to us. What must we do? Listen and obey!
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