To Redeem Lost and Helpless Sinners
By Henry Law While we were still helpless, at the right time,
Christ died for the ungodly. Romans 5 verse 6 God demonstrates
his own love for us in this. While we were still sinners,
Christ died for us. Romans 5 verse 8 To redeem lost
and helpless sinners, Jesus came down from heaven, put on the
rags of our mortality, agonized, suffered, bled, and died. Jesus is made his people's substitute,
burden-bearer, sin-remover, guilt-destroyer. Their sin-debt is placed to his
account. His sin-atoning sacrifice pays
the full amount. Sin is removed from the sinner
and placed on the sinless. Their curse is rolled on him
and he endures it until no more remains. God deals with Jesus
as the guilty one. Jesus, as spotless deity, receives
imputed sins and fully expiates them all. In the vicarious victim,
God's justice is satisfied and wrath expires. On the cross Jesus
suffers their sufferings, dies their death, and so becomes their
uttermost salvation. His pains are their pardon. His
stripes are their healing. His sin-atoning agony is their
glorious salvation.