Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:33:14 PM
The Cross of Christ and His Resurrection are the focal point of history. The Hebrew prophets foretold of His coming and the great work He would accomplish. The living God continues to invade history and fulfill the New Covenant promises by applying the work of redemption. In Messiah the types and shadows of the bloody sacrificial system are fulfilled, and the great question of sin and righteousness is answered.
Not only are our sins imputed to the sin bearer, but there is much more good news. The righteousness of the sinless sin bearer is imputed to the sinner. The doctrine of imputed sin is incomplete without the doctrine of imputed righteousness, because on it hangs the great doctrine of justification by faith alone. In Biblical Christianity righteousness is of grace through faith and not of works…
’For [God] made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.’ [2 Corinthians 5:21]