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DR.E: We are judged by the work of Christ on the cross

MARK: How can you be judged by what someone else has done?

Well, you've just about erased the entire Gospel in that one sentence.

Congratulations.

"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

"Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him." -- Romans 5:9

"Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" -- Romans 3:24

"That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." -- Titus 3:7

"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" -- Romans 5:1

"Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed." -- 1 Peter 2:24

"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." -- Romans 8:1-4

"Peace with God through Christ" doesn't just mean Christ is our advocate who tries to persuade God to save us.

It means Christ takes on our sins and pays for every one of them so that when we stand before God to be judged we are declared "acquitted" of our sins based on Christ's payment, and not our own; on His obedience and not our own; on His righteousness and not our own.

"By whose stripes ye were healed."