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SUBSTITUTIONAL
“All forgiveness, human and divine, is in the very nature of the case vicarious, substitutional,” writes James Buswell Jr., “and this is one of the most valuable views my mind has ever entertained. No one ever really forgives another, except he bears the penalty of the other’s sin against him.”
This substitution was perfectly expressed in Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ substituted Himself for us, bearing His own wrath, His own indignation at our sin. That’s what forgiveness costs!
God couldn’t just wink at our sin and overlook it. That would be our old human attitude of “I-couldn’t-care-less-because-it-doesn’t-really-matter.”
Matter? Hurt?
Yes, sin hurts!
God took the total insult of our sin so seriously that He went all the way to Calvary to die.
The cross shows how hard it was for God to forgive.
“All forgiveness, human and divine, is in the very nature of the case vicarious, substitutional,” writes James Buswell Jr., “and this is one of the most valuable views my mind has ever entertained. No one ever really forgives another, except he bears the penalty of the other’s sin against him.”
This substitution was perfectly expressed in Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ substituted Himself for us, bearing His own wrath, His own indignation at our sin. That’s what forgiveness costs!
God couldn’t just wink at our sin and overlook it. That would be our old human attitude of “I-couldn’t-care-less-because-it-doesn’t-really-matter.”
Matter? Hurt?
Yes, sin hurts!
God took the total insult of our sin so seriously that He went all the way to Calvary to die.
The cross shows how hard it was for God to forgive.
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