The Curse of the Law Removed

False teachers deny that Jesus was made a curse for us, that God's judgment fell upon Him at Calvary for our sins laid upon Him there.

Yet the Scripture is very clear in this teaching.

The curse of the law is God's promise and carrying out of justice and judgment against disobedience and rebellion. Jesus redeemed us from all that by being made a curse in our place, and judged by God for our crimes.

Thus, we see pictures of Jesus being judged in the passover lamb, in the entire Old Testament sacrificial system, and in dozens of texts in the Scriptures.

God forsook Jesus in the judgment, and yet God delights in Christ's offering for sinners! God did not despise Christ's afflictions, but rather accepted them as a full satisfaction. Having done so, God vindicated Jesus when He raised Him from the dead. God fully justified and redeemed Christ at that time, answering all of Christ's pleas during the wrath He endured.

Christ's sacrifice was a propitiation, an appeasement, a full satisfaction, of God's divine justice against our sin.

Contrary to the false teachers, Scripture assures us that Christ's sacrifice was offered up to God for our sins, and not the devil. Our redemption by Jesus is said to be, primarily, focused upon the forgiveness of our sins by God.

These are not references to a vague sort of redemption or rescue, but rather direct references to salvation from our sin and from the wrath we ought to have received from God.

The text that most beautifully and hauntingly describes the truth of penal substitutionary atonement is found in Isaiah 53. There we read of the suffering of Jesus in our place and for our sins under God's hand of wrath.