All mankind has sinned against God, and therefore is subject to the curse of God's just wrath. He will judge with justice, and the wages of sin is death.
But Jesus was offered as our substitute, as a sin or guilt offering unto God, whereby He satisfied divine justice in our place on the cross. Jesus is the propitiation by His blood for our crimes, and laying hold unto Christ's work by faith, God justifies poor sinners!
But it seems that many false teachers have sought to sanitize Christ's death at Calvary, to make it a pro-forma death that is only technical, and not actually a bloody sacrifice that exhausts God's wrath against our sin.
The redemption of sinners by Christ is no mere payoff of a financial judgment for us. It involves guilt and shame and wrath poured out against Jesus by God for our sins.
Our own death penalty judgments have been muted to the point that now, they are little more than euthanizing a pet dog or cat.
However, Christ's death for us was the wrath and judgment of God against our sin, and Jesus was treated as guilty in our place on the cross.
False teachers today deny that our sins were laid on Jesus and punished by God in His body. They deny the imputation of our crimes to Him. No matter how clearly the Bible teaches these things, false teachers have tendentious arguments arrayed against them.
The second most despised text for these false teachers is 2 Corinthians 5:21 - "God has made Jesus, Who Himself knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Christ."
Here is that glorious doctrine of double imputation - our sins for Christ's righteousness! Our sins laid on Jesus!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
