On Vicarious Atonement

Описание: The vicarious death of our Surety and.Mediator Jesus Christ was an effectual ransom for our sins. Our Redeemer went to the cross intending to save a particular group of people, and He completely paid the price of our redemption, buying us back, delivering us from the captivity of God's Law, rescuing us from eternal condemnation. Jesus Christ the Righteous succeeded in what He intended to do with His vicarious life and death in our stead—He achieved everything necessary for our salvation, even the very faith we need to receive His imputed righteousness. As our sin-bearer, Jesus Christ met all of the terms and conditions of the Covenant of Works in our place, and this means the Gospel is unconditional—there is nothing left for us to do—Jesus' saving work is perfect, and, as He said: "It is finished!" Christ's life and death in our room is the only legal basis for God to forgive us, pronounce us forensically acquitted, accept our persons, adopt us as sons and daughters in His blessed family, and freely grant us a title unto eternal life. Because Jesus Christ is our Surety of the Covenant of Grace, the Father charged all of our guilt to His account and credited Jesus' perfect righteousness freely to our accounts. Because of this judicial act of vicarious imputation, God does not treat us the way we deserve to be treated, but He treats us the way His sinless Son deserves to be treated. Because of Jesus Christ for us, we are treated as if we had never sinned, and as if we had kept the Law of God perfectly, while Ebenezer—our Stone of help—Jesus Christ lived and died in our name, being treated and numbered as a transgressor. The penal and substitutionary death of Jesus Christ not on achieved the full remission of our sins, but it effected our reconciliation with the Father—making us the friends of God!
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