But God has made a provision for sinners. It is not simply a means of making us feel better about ourselves. It is not an opportunity for us to redeem ourselves by our own merits, deeds, or even religious zeal and piety. It is not a provision that helps us to help ourselves. It is not that God has decided to override His perfect righteousness with His love and forgiveness, so that as long as we at least try to be worthy of His love, and not do anything too bad, He will relax His holy standard enough to accept us into His eternal kingdom. God has made a provision for sinners that fully satisfies God's perfect justice and righteousness - a provision that instead of distorting or diminishing His holiness, actually confirms, intensifies, and magnifies it.
being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Romans 3:24-26
It was not only God's righteousness that was demonstrated in Christ's death, but also His pure and perfect love.
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His son to be the propitiation for our sins.
1 John 4:10
This provision is not something God was forced to come up with once He saw the seriousness of our plight. It is a perfect provision that He had predestined in flawless detail even before the foundation of the world.
who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity.
2 Timothy 1:9
God's provision for sinners is in the sinless perfection, and atoning sacrificial death of His own beloved Son.
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this reason He is the mediator of a new covenant, in order that since a death has taken place for the redemption of the transgressions that were committed under the first covenant, those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.
Hebrews 9:14-15
God became flesh in the person of Jesus of Nazareth.
And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14
Jesus, God's Christ, lived a sinless life in a sin-cursed world. He was tempted in every way we are, yet remained pure.
since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with out weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.
Hebrews 4:14-15
Having given many evidences of His own deity, and having declared Himself to be the only legitimate hope for hopeless sinners, He willingly laid down His life in humble subjection to death on a Roman cross, so that God's righteousness could be satisfied in Him on or behalf.
I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
John 10:11
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:21
and He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.
1 Peter 2:24
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