Imputed - A reminder

                        

                                   Imputed - A Reminder

This needs to be repeated, over and over again, because we need to be reminded, over and over again!

"God made Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Our sin was imputed to Christ, and He bore the awful price for our sin as our substitute. He took the penalty for us -  in our place!

"Impute" is a legal term that means to "officially and legally transfer ownership of something to someone else."

And Christ's righteousness is then imputed to all who believe, and they stand before God clothed in the pure, white garments  of His perfect righteousness.

That is the fundamental meaning of what happened at the cross: God treated Christ as if He had lived our wretched, sinful life, so that He could then treat us as if we had lived Christ's spotless, perfect life.

And that's the gospel of His amazing grace!

 "I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall exult in my God, for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness" (Isaiah 61:10).