Made Sin with Our Sin
Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:21Devotional Series: Rendered Innocent
Teaching: Rendered Innocent pt. 2 (SUN_AM 2024-06-23) by Pastor Star R Scott
We’ve been talking about the substitutionary work of Jesus. Aren’t you thankful for the substitutionary work of Jesus? Amen? All that simply means is this: that He took our place on the cross. Why? Because we could not effect anything through our own offering, it needed to be a sinless sacrifice, sufficient to deal once for all legally and actually with the power of sin and the curse of the law, which was death. And so, Jesus went and died on that cross for your sin and for my sin.
The Scripture, of course, being very clear on that in 2 Corinthians 5:21, the verse that we’re familiar with and we’ve quoted it so many times, but thank God “He was made sin with our sin, that we might be made righteous with His righteousness”; amen? Theologians call that the “Great Exchange.” And so, we realize then that there was the true exchanging. Our sin was removed, not only from us; our sin was removed from God’s recollection, or memory, through the redemptive work of Jesus. That blows my mind! We’re going to talk a little bit about that, but to just meditate on that it’s almost beyond comprehension. It could not be done outside of God’s sovereign Being; amen? How does He, who is omniscient, who knows all from the beginning to the end for all eternity, forget? He chose. This is supernatural; it’s impossible in our thinking to fully appreciate what was done. But thank God it was; amen?
Paul is writing to the Corinthians here. He’s writing and he’s reminding them of events that had happened previously. He’s writing to the Corinthian church, and by doing so, is going back and drawing on facts that had taken place decades earlier. I’m just saying that to say, this statement just brings us historically closer to the cross. You know, we’ve talked before about how we can rely on different aspects of literature and bibliography, how the study of these books and the laws are applied to get proper application of books that are historical. And the closer you can get to eyewitnesses of the actual occurrence, then of course the more reliable and more credibility we have to give to that.
Paul’s statement here is going right back to the day of Jesus’ crucifixion. He said, “That I received by revelation after being born again on the road to Damascus—and I didn’t go seek human teachers. I set myself apart and God visited me in the wilderness, and by revelation gave me what I’m sharing with you right now” (Galatians 1:12). And what God had shared with him, of course, was this: “I declare unto you the gospel,” verse 1 (1 Corinthians 15), “Which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first…” Here’s the message that’s from the beginning. This is the Word that Paul goes on and says, “If you preach any other gospel than this that I have given you, it’s another gospel, it’s a false gospel. Anything that’s different than what I shared with you initially, and anybody that promotes that, let them be judged or damned” (Galatians 1:8-9). Powerful.
The Scripture, of course, being very clear on that in 2 Corinthians 5:21, the verse that we’re familiar with and we’ve quoted it so many times, but thank God “He was made sin with our sin, that we might be made righteous with His righteousness”; amen? Theologians call that the “Great Exchange.” And so, we realize then that there was the true exchanging. Our sin was removed, not only from us; our sin was removed from God’s recollection, or memory, through the redemptive work of Jesus. That blows my mind! We’re going to talk a little bit about that, but to just meditate on that it’s almost beyond comprehension. It could not be done outside of God’s sovereign Being; amen? How does He, who is omniscient, who knows all from the beginning to the end for all eternity, forget? He chose. This is supernatural; it’s impossible in our thinking to fully appreciate what was done. But thank God it was; amen?
Paul is writing to the Corinthians here. He’s writing and he’s reminding them of events that had happened previously. He’s writing to the Corinthian church, and by doing so, is going back and drawing on facts that had taken place decades earlier. I’m just saying that to say, this statement just brings us historically closer to the cross. You know, we’ve talked before about how we can rely on different aspects of literature and bibliography, how the study of these books and the laws are applied to get proper application of books that are historical. And the closer you can get to eyewitnesses of the actual occurrence, then of course the more reliable and more credibility we have to give to that.
Paul’s statement here is going right back to the day of Jesus’ crucifixion. He said, “That I received by revelation after being born again on the road to Damascus—and I didn’t go seek human teachers. I set myself apart and God visited me in the wilderness, and by revelation gave me what I’m sharing with you right now” (Galatians 1:12). And what God had shared with him, of course, was this: “I declare unto you the gospel,” verse 1 (1 Corinthians 15), “Which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first…” Here’s the message that’s from the beginning. This is the Word that Paul goes on and says, “If you preach any other gospel than this that I have given you, it’s another gospel, it’s a false gospel. Anything that’s different than what I shared with you initially, and anybody that promotes that, let them be judged or damned” (Galatians 1:8-9). Powerful.