In its simplest but most beautiful form: our sins are laid on Christ and His righteousness is laid upon us.
“God made him who had no sin to be sinfor us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.” (2 Corinthians 5 v 21)
- Jesus was the only human who lived without sin, the spotless lamb.
- This sinlessness was essential to His mission. It had to be a perfect sacrifice. If He had sinned even only once then He would have needed saving not been the Saviour.
- Jesus was made sin for us on the cross. There he took on the full consequences of our sin. He was our sin offering bearing the full weight of divine judgment for our sins. At that moment the Father treated His Son as if Jesus Christ had committed every sin of every person who had ever and who ever was going to live.
- Christ gave us His righteousness not because we had achieved or earnt it in some way. It is received by faith .
- When God looks at you now He sees you being clothes in the perfect righteousness of Christ.
- This great exchange is the gospel message and anything that is different in even the slightest way is not the gospel.
- Our righteousness is not by our works but Christ’s work on the cross.
Missions Paul 