Title: 13
Author: JBG
Last saved by: Matthew C. Lawson
Company: Auth CO

© 2001  Joe Griffin

01-04-01-A.JSH-460 /

The Inscrutable Question: Impeccability of Christ Qualified Him as a Substitute for Our Sins, 1 John 3:5; 1 Peter 2:24; 2 Cor 5:21
	19)	Our Lord’s maintenance of His impeccability was imperative if He was to be a qualified substitute for us on the cross.
	20)	When our sins were imputed to Him he did not become a sinner Himself.  He was punished for our sins and those of the entire human race.
	21)	This punishment belonged to us but He voluntarily accepted this punishment in our place.  These principles are stated with absolute clarity in Scripture:
1 John 3:5 - Indeed, you know that He was revealed in order that He might carry our sins.  In fact, sin is not in Him.
1 Peter 2:24 - It is Christ Himself who carried our sins in His own body on the cross, in order that we might die to sin and live to righteousness, for by His bruises [ literal bruising at the trials and on the cross ] you were healed [ made free from the judgment of sin ].
2 Corinthians 5:21 - For He [ God the Father ] made Him [ Jesus Christ in His true humanity ] Who knew no sin [ impeccability ] to become sin as a substitute for us [ atonement—He became sin on our behalf ] for the purpose that we might become once and for all the righteousness which belongs to God through Him [ Jesus Christ ]. 
	22)	Since Christ paid the penalty for sin, the justice of God, without compromise to divine integrity, imputes God’s righteousness to every believer at the moment of faith in Jesus Christ. 
	23)	This faith consists of any sinner’s personal belief that:
1.	Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God;
2.	all sins were judged in Christ on the cross, 
3.	through this substitutionary sacrifice the sinner’s presalvation sins are forgiven;
4.	he is saved from condemnation to the lake of fire; and
5.	he has eternal life.

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