When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indeptedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.
Colossians 2:13-14
What sent Jesus to the Cross? Was it Judas, out of greed? Was it Caiaphas, out of envy? What is Pilate, out of cowardice? It was your sin, and my sin, that sent Jesus there. Every sin that we have ever committed and ever will commit is what sent Jesus to the cross, because God "so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life," (John 3:16). Our sins were nailed on the cross that day. Jesus took the punishment so that we those who believe in Him wouldn't have to. "But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation," (Colossians 1:22). This is the good news! This is why Paul was able to say, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus..." (Romans 8:1). And now we can truly say that there is, as this song says, "No guilt in life, no fear in death. This is the power of Christ in me."
"At the cross in holy love God through Christ paid the full penalty of our disobedience himself. He bore the judgment we deserve in order to bring us the forgiveness we do not deserve. On the cross divine mercy and justice were equally expressed and eternally reconciled. God's holy love was 'satisfied.'" John Stott.
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