Sinners Made Righteousness

Be sure you understand what the Holy Spirit here teaches us. Christ being made sin for us, was made exactly what we are – Sin! He was made sin for us that we might be made exactly what he is — Righteousness, the very righteousness of God. He was not made less that we are; and we are not made less than he is. The very sinfulness that we are, Christ was made before God; and the very righteousness that he is we are made before God. This is absolute substitution. The Lord Jesus Christ took our persons and condition, and stood in our stead before God. We take his person and condition, and stand in his stead before God. What the Lord God beholds Christ to be, that he beholds his members to be. — The Very Righteousness of God!