He hath made Him to be sin for us … that we might be
     made the righteousness of God…

     — 2 Corinthians 5:21

The modern view of the death of Jesus is that He died for our sins
out of sympathy. The New Testament view is that He bore our sin not
by sympathy, but by identification. He was made to be sin. Our sins
are removed because of the death of Jesus, and the explanation of His
death is His obedience to His Father, not His sympathy with us. We
are acceptable with God not because we have obeyed, or because we
have promised to give up things, but because of the death of Christ,
and in no other way. We say that Jesus Christ came to reveal the
Fatherhood of God, the loving-kind ness of God; the New Testament
says He came to bear away the sin of the world. The revelation of His
Father is to those to whom He has been introduced as Saviour. Jesus
Christ never spoke of Himself to the world as one Who revealed the
Father, but as a stumbling block (see John 15:22- 24). John 14:9 was
spoken to His disciples.

That Christ died for me, therefore I go scot free, is never taught in
the New Testament. What is taught in the New Testament is that “He
died for all” (not – He died my death), and that by identification
with His death I can be freed from sin, and have imparted to me His
very righteousness. The substitution taught in the New Testament is
twofold: “He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we
might be made the righteous ness of God in Him.” It is not Christ for
me un less I am determined to have Christ formed in me.

On this day...

• Nahum 3 - 2023
• Nahum 2 - 2023
• Always Tell the Truth - 2009
• Standard of Truth - 2009
• The Way Into the Holiest: Expositions on the Epistle to the Hebrews, 1893 - 2009
• THE SECRET OF GUIDANCE - 2009
• Frederick Brotherton Meyer - Evangelist - 2009
• Proclaiming the Excellencies of Christ, Not Prosperity, Among the Nations - 2009
• Statement on Poverty - 2009
• We Beheld His Glory, Full of Grace and Truth - 2009