A Stunning Certainty

Jesus spoke....  But I am doing just what the Father commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Get up, let us go from here. John 14:31 NET

I’m certain it’s important to understand and acknowledge that both in His life and in His death, Jesus Christ took our place. 

Now grasp what this means for all of us who believe in Him. He became as accountable for our sins as if He had committed them even though He Himself never sinned. 

2 Corinthians 5:20-21 NET Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His plea through us. We plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God!” God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God.

Or again

1 Peter 3:18 NET  Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.

To put this stunning certainty as simply as possible, it means this: all the righteousness of Jesus shining through His life of perfect obedience to God’s law is imputed to us (counted as yours), and every last iota of our sin is imputed to Him (counted as His), and its penalty paid in full in His death. 

Grasping this will surely transform the view of death and all that follows