Bible Verse of the Day Saturday February 13th 2021

2 Corinthians 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

There is a biblical truth that none of us want to face about ourselves, but the fact is we are all sinners, and there is no righteousness in any of us. We have all turned our lives away from God, and none of us can save ourselves. Every human being that has ever drawn breath is in dire need of a Savior, one that is willing, able, and ready to be able to live as righteous in God's eyes and shed His innocent blood to cover our sin. 

There is some good news abounding, but we must first learn the bad news. Without knowing the bad news, we would never see a reason to seek after the good news. God devised a master plan in which we might receive the righteousness required to spend eternity with Him. When God beheld our immorality and wickedness, He commanded that there would be a penalty for the sin and evil in our lives. On an "Old Rugged Cross" on the hill of Calvary, God, who became flesh and dwelt among us, took on that penalty and paid a sin debt that He did not owe. In Christ Jesus's person, He lived a perfect, sinless, and righteous life, to pay a debt that we owed but could never pay. 

God's Son, Christ Jesus, who was wholesome and righteous, freely gave of His life on the Cross as though He was deserving of the penalty of death that falls on all of us (Romans 6:23). God made Christ Jesus, who was sinless, to become sin on our behalf so that we would take on the righteousness in God. Jesus paid for the sin of the world on the Cross, and then God raised Him from the dead to claim the victory over death and Hell that can be ours. The only requirement to claim the victory over Satan, sin, and death is to put our faith and trust in Christ Jesus, surrendering our lives to Him and turning our backs on the ways of the world. 

The implication is not that Christ Jesus became a sinner because of the Cross of Calvary; our verse of the day quantifies that He was sinless. God made Jesus a sin offering and a curse on our behalf (Galatians 3:13). He endured and accepted the sins of you and me so that God might be able to see us as righteous, as Christ Jesus is, was, and always will be. In the twenty-four brief words in this verse (2 Corinthians 5:21), Paul lays out the foundation of the sinner's appeasement to God. Furthermore, he proclaims the undisputable reason that we all should respond to the call of the Gospel of Christ Jesus. 

The Crucifixion of Christ Jesus demonstrates the philosophy and concept of the act of justification. He bore our sins, so that we might be able to take on His righteousness.

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