Posted on 05/10/2019 5:13:33 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress
“The righteous is delivered out of trouble, and the wicked cometh in his stead” (Proverbs 11:8 KJV).
“. . . and the wicked cometh in his stead,” that simply means that where the wicked attempts to bring the righteous into trouble and tries to bring wrath upon the head of the good man, God reverses the whole thing and they end up being the ones to suffer. The Lord works it out, He makes the wicked a substitute. The wicked comes into trouble in his stead, in his place, as a substitute.
Consider the sin of Achan back in Joshua. God told Joshua that someone had committed a great sin so that His wrath has fallen upon the people. They lost their first (and only) battle at Ai, so that Israel could not stand before their enemies. In other words, the righteous were falling. God told Joshua how to handle the situation, and when he handled it, the wicked Achan was put in the place of the righteous and suffered their judgment.
It is a substitutionary thing—it is a type (or picture) of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ became unrighteous in our place: “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” (II Corinthians 5:21 KJV). Jesus died in our place.
When Jesus Christ dies in our place, how does He die? He is the sinless Son of God, but when He dies, He dies with all of our sins upon Him. He dies as a sin-bearer. Jesus said: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:14-15 KJV).
He takes our place, that we might be made righteous through Him. He bears our sin, and we bear his righteousness.
Let’s read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let’s keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread!
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