Our Substitute
[He] Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed.
1 Peter 2:24
The substitutionary death of Jesus Christ is an essential truth of the Christian faith. Redemption, justification, reconciliation, removal of sin, and propitiation are all corollaries of Christ’s substitutionary work.
The apostle Paul also emphasized this work when he said that God “made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor 5:21), and that “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us”(Gal 3:13).
Some claim it’s immoral to teach that God would take on human flesh and bear the sins of men and women in their stead. They say it’s unfair to transfer the penalty of sin from a guilty person to an innocent person. But that’s not what happened. Christ willingly took on our sin and bore its penalty. If He had not willed to take our sin and accept its punishment, as sinners we would have borne the punishment of sin in hell forever. Christ’s work on the cross wasn’t unfair—it was God’s love in action!
MacArthur, J. (2001). Truth for today : A daily touch of God's grace (Page 110). Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman.
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1 Peter 2:24
The substitutionary death of Jesus Christ is an essential truth of the Christian faith. Redemption, justification, reconciliation, removal of sin, and propitiation are all corollaries of Christ’s substitutionary work.
The apostle Paul also emphasized this work when he said that God “made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor 5:21), and that “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us”(Gal 3:13).
Some claim it’s immoral to teach that God would take on human flesh and bear the sins of men and women in their stead. They say it’s unfair to transfer the penalty of sin from a guilty person to an innocent person. But that’s not what happened. Christ willingly took on our sin and bore its penalty. If He had not willed to take our sin and accept its punishment, as sinners we would have borne the punishment of sin in hell forever. Christ’s work on the cross wasn’t unfair—it was God’s love in action!
MacArthur, J. (2001). Truth for today : A daily touch of God's grace (Page 110). Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman.
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