Justification: The Great Exchange and Substitute!

The Bible in the New Testament has always talked about Christ great sacrifice for the remission of sin. It explains in scriptures, that Jesus Christ blood was the final and perfect sacrifice for humanity sins and evil. In 2 Cor. 5:21, one of the Bible’s golden verses of salvation; it speaks of a great exchange. The first stage took place 2000 years ago. God placed our sins upon Christ. He “made Him to be sin”. This was not literal. It was by substitution. Christ was treated “as if” He were the sinner. He was then made a curse (Gal. 3:13). He suffered the wrath of God and died. The second stage is when a sinner believes in Christ. Christ places His righteousness on the sinner, who is then accounted righteous by God. He is treated “as if” he had never sinned. It is the perfect counterpart of the cross. He suffered; we can rejoice. He died; we live. We are not literally made righteous, just as He was not literally made sin. Our sins were “imputed” to Him; His righteousness is “imputed” to us. This is why faith is the proper instrument that connects us with the cross, for we believe that Christ died for us. Now, we can boldly state, that we are redeemed by His Blood forever, inasmuch we live in righteousness and holiness by living Godly in this present world.