Our Sins
“For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
We cannot really understand the Lord’s hatred of sin. He was “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners” (Hebrews 7:26). “And ye know that He was manifested to take away our sins; and in Him is no sin” (1 John 3:5).
Yet God heaped all our sins on His Son in those three hours of darkness and punished Him for them just as if He had committed them all Himself. He had no sins of His own personally — far be the thought, but He took our sins and confessed them as if they were His own — what a Saviour!
He who was, and is, perfect was made sin for us. Why? So that we might, through faith, be made righteous. This should make us bow our hearts in worship and adoration today as we remember the Lord’s sufferings and death.
He bore my sins as if they were His own,
He took my punishment from God,
No greater work is known.
