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Email: Was Christ Made Morally Sinful?
TUESDAY, JUNE 24, 2008
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Email: Was Christ Made Morally Sinful?

FreeGraceRadio.com recently received the following email directed to Pastor Don Fortner. We thought others might find his response helpful and comforting, especially if you are one of those for whom Christ suffered.

Hello Pastor Fortner,

I heard a message of yours on SermonAudio recently where you preached on 2 Corinthians 5:21 [For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him].

I have a question for you. Are you saying that Christ was "morally" made a sinner when it says that God made Him to be sin for us, or are you saying that God reckoned Him a sinner in a "judicial" or "legal" sense?

Thank you for clarifying!
_______

Dear Bro. _____,

Please forgive my late reply to your good note and the brevity of it. I am simply swamped with trying to catch up after a long hospital stay.

Our Savior had no sin of his own. He was born without original sin, being even from birth “that Holy One” (Luke 1:35). Throughout his life he “knew no sin” (2 Corinthians 5:21), “did no sin” (1 Peter 2:22), “and in him is no sin” (1 John 3:5). But on Calvary the holy Lord God “made him who knew no sin sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” (2 Corinthians 5:21). Just as in the incarnation “the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:14), in substitution he who was made flesh “was made sin for us.” I do not know how God could be made flesh and never cease to be God; but he was. I do not know how God could die and yet never die; but he did (Acts 20:28). And I do not know how Christ who knew no sin could be made sin and yet never have sinned; but he was.

Indeed he could never have suffered the painful, shameful, ignominious death of the cross as our Substitute, had he not been made sin for us. Justice would never have allowed it. The Lord God declares, "He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are an abomination to the Lord" (Pro. 17:15; Ex. 23:7).

These things are mysteries beyond the reach of human comprehension. But they are facts of divine revelation to which we bow with adoration.

If you wish to do so, you can read everything I have written on this or any other subject at DonFortner.com.

Don

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