"Christ is "made sin" not in the sense that He becomes a sinner, but in the sense that our sins are imputed to Him--a natural interpretation in view of the explicit reference in 2 Corinthians 5:19 to God's "not imputing" trespasses. In other words, the concept of "imputation" is in Paul's mind as he writes these verses.
But if Christ's being made sin for us implies the imputation of our sin to Christ, then it is not arbitrary or unnatural to construe the parallel--our "becoming the righteousness of God in Him"--as the imputation of God's righteousness to us. We "become" God's righteousness the way Christ "was made" our sin. He did not become morally sinful in the imputation; we do not become morally righteous in the imputation. He was counted as having our sin; we are counted as having God's righteousness. This is the reality of imputation. And the righteousness imputed is not our faith but an external divine righteousness." -John Piper
I love the Savior for the excruciating pain He endured for me, as He was abandoned by His friends and disciples; and as He was beaten and slapped in the face by those who hated Him; and as He was scourged, and mocked by the Roman soldiers in many ways, even with a crown of painful thorns shoved down on His sacred brow; and as He had spikes hammered through His holy hands of compassion, and then a single spike hammered through His "beautiful feet, which walked upon the mountains to bring the good news, and proclaimed peace and good tidings of good things", so that He was raised up on the Cross He was nailed to, and so executed by being crucified (Isaiah 52:7).
What an incredible Man, and God, He was, and is.
And I also love Jesus for fulfilling this charge from His Father,-- to drink the cup of God's holy wrath, and bear my sins, and so blot out my sins with his broken body, and His shed blood, as the Holy Lamb of God: And so making a way, so that the Father would be able to impute His righteousness to me, and so now I am "clothed with the garments of salvation, and covered by the robe of righteousness" (Isaiah 61:10).
I thank my Redeemer and King every day for the Cross. And I pray I will never become numb to the awesomeness and magnificence of what the Cross means.
"I will sing of my Redeemer and his wondrous love to me;
On the cruel cross He suffered, from the curse to set me free."
2 comments:
beautifly said!
Thanks. All for the Cross.
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