Hello, A few meditations by thinking in part on 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 .
Man lacks Righteousness and yet seems to know that it is a quality that is desired. A quality that if found would be purchased if possible. Man seems to also know that Righteousness is peace and peace is rest. Man wants this rest. Man's works are works that cannot be satisfied no matter how much man tries to be good. This unrestful state is a burden, a weight that cannot be justified. This absence of justification for this burden is sin. God in His mercy knew this condition of man would be unbearable and gave us His son as a treasure that would be paid for by God himself.
Because all things are of God, God reconciled us to himself by his son Jesus Christ. To lift the burden from man by not imputing the trespasses of man on man but on His son Jesus Christ. He made Jesus to be sin for us, who had no sin nor burden of works before the space of time of the Cross at Calvary. This mercy offering by God of His son was granted by God's Righteousness and Holiness in the Work of the son who knew no sin except our sin and our works at Calvary that we (might) be made the righteousness of God in him. God justified all sin in His son by the death of sin in the Righteousness and Holiness of God. Man looking up to Christ by faith leaves that burden of unrighteous works which is sin upon Jesus and is healed in the Righteousness of God and gains peace which is rest from his own works. The born again believer is made the righteousness of God and is Holy in Him. The born again believer as a new creature in Christ Jesus knew once the sin in Christ, but now forgiveness. Because of God's righteousness the child of God, now also knows no man after the flesh but knows the ministry of reconciliation by the word, in their new life in the flesh as a living testimony.
Amen brother Carleton. Isaiah 53:6b: "and the LORD hath laid on him (Jesus) the iniquity of us all". And by faith in the crucified One, our "iniquities" are presented to the Father in His Son, Who mercifully forgives us & fully justifies us ('just if I'd' never sinned). The wonder of His Salvation - that all the praise must only go to Him. Romans 3:24; Romans 5:1.
He made him a sin offering, who knew no sin - A commendation peculiar to Christ. For us - Who knew no righteousness, who were inwardly and outwardly nothing but sin; who must have been consumed by the divine justice, had not this atonement been made for our sins. That we might be made the righteousness of God through him - Might through him be invested with that righteousness, first imputed to us, then implanted in us, which is in every sense the righteousness of God.
People's Bible Notes for 2 Corinthians 5:21
Hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin. As a sinless substitute he suffered for our sins, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. That our sins might thus be atoned for, the law satisfied, and we be forgiven and accounted righteous. Since we die with Christ, in him we pay the penalty, and are justified.
Romans 8:3
Isaiah 53
John 3:16
1 Peter 2:22
Hebrews 4 the chapter
Hebrews 4:15
Hopefully these are helpful :)
Man lacks Righteousness and yet seems to know that it is a quality that is desired. A quality that if found would be purchased if possible. Man seems to also know that Righteousness is peace and peace is rest. Man wants this rest. Man's works are works that cannot be satisfied no matter how much man tries to be good. This unrestful state is a burden, a weight that cannot be justified. This absence of justification for this burden is sin. God in His mercy knew this condition of man would be unbearable and gave us His son as a treasure that would be paid for by God himself.
Because all things are of God, God reconciled us to himself by his son Jesus Christ. To lift the burden from man by not imputing the trespasses of man on man but on His son Jesus Christ. He made Jesus to be sin for us, who had no sin nor burden of works before the space of time of the Cross at Calvary. This mercy offering by God of His son was granted by God's Righteousness and Holiness in the Work of the son who knew no sin except our sin and our works at Calvary that we (might) be made the righteousness of God in him. God justified all sin in His son by the death of sin in the Righteousness and Holiness of God. Man looking up to Christ by faith leaves that burden of unrighteous works which is sin upon Jesus and is healed in the Righteousness of God and gains peace which is rest from his own works. The born again believer is made the righteousness of God and is Holy in Him. The born again believer as a new creature in Christ Jesus knew once the sin in Christ, but now forgiveness. Because of God's righteousness the child of God, now also knows no man after the flesh but knows the ministry of reconciliation by the word, in their new life in the flesh as a living testimony.
He made him a sin offering, who knew no sin - A commendation peculiar to Christ. For us - Who knew no righteousness, who were inwardly and outwardly nothing but sin; who must have been consumed by the divine justice, had not this atonement been made for our sins. That we might be made the righteousness of God through him - Might through him be invested with that righteousness, first imputed to us, then implanted in us, which is in every sense the righteousness of God.
People's Bible Notes for 2 Corinthians 5:21
Hath made him [to be] sin for us, who knew no sin. As a sinless substitute he suffered for our sins, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. That our sins might thus be atoned for, the law satisfied, and we be forgiven and accounted righteous. Since we die with Christ, in him we pay the penalty, and are justified.
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