The Heart Of The Gospel

"2 Cor. 5:21 He made Him who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.

He treated Him as if He had committed every sin ever committed by every person who would believe though in fact Jesus committed none of them.

Hanging on The Cross He was the Spotless Lamb, He was never a split second a sinner.

He was Holy God on The Cross, but God is treating Him -I'll put it more practically, as if He had lived my life.

God punished Jesus for my sin, turns right around and treats me as if I had lived His life.

That's the great doctrine of Substitution and on that doctrine turned the whole reformation of the Christian Church,

that is the heart of the gospel and what you get is complete forgiveness covered by the righteousness of Jesus Christ.

When God looks at The Cross He sees you and when He looks at you He sees Christ." __John MacArthur

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He treated Him as if He had committed every sin ever committed by every person who would believe though in fact Jesus committed none of them.

That is adding to the text a thought which is not in the text. G\Jesus was sacrficied for all the people of the world, which means all the sins of the world, not just the sins of those who would believe. As a righteous judge, the gift had to be provided for all, though some would not accept the gift.

That is adding to the text a thought which is not in the text. G\Jesus was sacrficied for all the people of the world, which means all the sins of the world, not just the sins of those who would believe. As a righteous judge, the gift had to be provided for all, though some would not accept the gift.

Yes, this. Of course, here, with respect to this point, we just have MacArthur spouting his Calvinist claptrap.

“In him [Christ] we were also chosen, having been predestined according

to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose
of his will.”
Ephesians 1:11

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“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed

us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he
chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless

in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through

Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— to the praise of

his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.
Ephesians 1:3-6

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“On no day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night
there. The glory and honor
of the nations will be brought into it.

Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor
will anyone who does
what is shameful or deceitful, but only
those whose names are
written in the Lamb’s book of life.”
Revelation 21:25-27

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JAG

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