Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
There are places in the Bible that sound embarrassing for God because they seem to say that He has sinned; at least, He felt terribly as though He had sinned. For example, we read that the Father has “made [Christ] to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21).
Imagine the best person on earth becomes overwhelmed with the pollution of filthy, sinful guilt, he feels kicked out of all decent society; He has to stay outside in the darkness and watch the happy party going on inside with Himself thrown out, yet He knows that He belongs inside! He has suffered the grossest injustice of eternity and there is no help for Him.
A sinless Person “made to be sin”! Imagine the most horrible place to find yourself—we can’t name it; and think of Yourself thrown there with no sweet relief of death possible for you, forever. You are the hated One of all eternity; “made to be sin ... !”
There are passages in the Psalms that are clearly Messianic but confess such sin, such as this: “Innumerable evils have surrounded Me: My iniquities have overtaken Me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of My head, therefore My heart fails Me” (Psalm 40:12). The context is clearly talking about the Messiah.
“Made to be sin for us who knew no sin”! Felt the pollution and horror with all the sentient feeling of divinity imprisoned in humanity—felt it to be His never-ending hell. We quote it in deep reverence: He was in that one spot in the wide universe that is “hell” itself (Acts 2:27). The Father had forsaken Him!
And all this in the full surrender of His own volition in the primeval past eternity when divine Father and Son clasped hands, made the covenant to “give” and to be “given” for the sin of the word.
Our shriveled up hearts and dwarfed minds need to be stretched to comprehend what it cost the Father and the Son to save us.
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