To redeem lost and helpless sinners!
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"While we were still helpless, at the right time, Christ died for the ungodly!" Romans 5:6
"God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us!" Romans 5:8
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!