Without substitution the death of Jesus is unintelligible. Unless what we have [in the cross] is what is being described in 2 Corinthians 5:21, that he was made sin for us - not that he was a sinner for us - but made sin for us, then how else do you explain it? What possible justification could God have for crucifying the innocent unless in substitution he became all that we are in our sin and rebellion in order that, in the mastery and mystery of his grace, in him we might become the very righteousness of God?
Monday, February 25, 2013
Christ, Our Substitute
Alistair Begg on the necessity of seeing Christ's death on the cross as a substitutionary sacrifice:
