For He hath made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin… – 2 Corinthians 5:21
Admire in the substitutionary sacrifice the great grace of God. Never forget that He whom God made to be sin for us was His Own Son; yes, I go further, it was in some sense His Own Self; for the Son is one with the Father. You may not confound the persons, but you cannot divide the Son of God from the Father as to forget that God was in Him reconciling the world unto Himself. It is the Father’s other Self who on the cross in human form does bleed and die. “Light of light, very God of very God”: it is this Light that was eclipsed, that Godhead which purchased the Church with His own blood. Herein is infinite love! You tell me that God might have pardoned without atonement. I answer, that finite and fallible love might have done so, and thus have wounded itself by killing justice; but the love which both required and provided the atonement is indeed infinite. God Himself provided the atonement by freely and fully giving up Himself in the person of His Son to suffer in consequence of human sin.
What I want you to notice here is this; if ever your mind should be troubled about the propriety or rightness of a substitutionary sacrifice, you may at once settle the matter by remembering that God Himself “hath made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin.” If God did it, it is well done. I am not careful to defend an act of God: let the man who dares accuse His Maker think what he is at. If God Himself provided the sacrifice, be sure that He has accepted it. There can be no question ever raised about it, since JEHOVAH made to meet on Him our iniquities. He that made Christ to be sin for us, knew what He did, and it is not for us to begin to say, “Is this right, or is this not right?” The thrice holy God hath done this, and it must be right. That which satisfies God may well satisfy us. If God is pleased with the sacrifice of Christ, shall not we be much more pleased? Shall we not be delighted, entranced, emparadised, to be saved by such a sacrifice as God Himself appoints, provides, and accepts? “He hath made Him to be sin for us.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon
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