by Emily Wooten
If you haven’t yet told your young one about the miracle of the Great Exchange, today is the day. Jesus Christ who knew no sin, became sin for us. He exchanged his perfect health, righteous spirit and sanctified mind for our imperfect being. Because Adam sinned, we all are born into a sin nature. Without Jesus Christ we have no hope beyond this life.
Romans 3:23-24 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin (Christ Jesus) to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Romans 8:3-4 For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son (Jesus Christ) in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:8-10 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
God sent this son to take our place, our punishment. The Great Exchange happened over 2,000 years ago. When we accept Jesus as Lord, we accept ever benefit of the exchange.
James 5:14-15 Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
David, in Psalms 103 reminded us some of the benefits of the Great Exchange.
Psalms 103:2-5 Bless the Lord, O my soul, And forget not all His benefits: Who forgives all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases, Who redeems your life from destruction, Who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies, Who satisfies your mouth with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
It is finished. All we ever needed or will need has been purchased by the blood of Jesus. Once and forever, it is a forever settled subject.
All we have to do is take what he has provided.