sub·sti·tute
a person or thing acting or serving in place of another.
to put (a person or thing) in the place of another.
The heart of the message of the cross is substitution. Jesus took our place. This is reinforced again and again in Isaiah 53:
- v4 surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows
- v5 he was wounded for our transgressions
- v5 he was crushed for our iniquities
- v5 upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace
- v5 with his stripes we are healed
- v6 the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all
- v8 he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people
- v11 he shall bear their iniquities
- v12 he bore the sin of many
There was an exchange. He took our sin. he gave us his righteousness. Amazing!
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