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Devotional: June 23rd

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Romans 5:8

‘Christ died for us’

Read Psalms 22:1-15

The Word of God sets forth many precious truths which we love, to study and proclaim. Yet all the blessed doctrines of Holy Scripture may be summed up in one doctrine: substitution. The very first doctrine of the Bible, creation, can only be properly understood if we realize that all things were created by our Substitute. The doctrine of God’s providence is a wonderful and precious doctrine. And what is providence but the upholding of all things by the word of the power of our Substitute? We believe the grand old doctrines of eternal election and sovereign predestination and we are not bashful to proclaim them. But election is in the person of our Substitute. We are predestinated to be conformed to the image of the only-begotten Son of God, our Substitute. How we glory in the doctrine of the atonement! But if there were no substitute, no mediator between God and man, if there was no one who could satisfy both the needs of fallen man and the justice of a holy God, there would be no atonement. The doctrine of glorification causes our hearts to rejoice in the glorious expectation of the sons of God, but we could have no hope of future glory if there were no substitute into whose likeness we must be made.

The one theme of the Bible is substitution. Everything in the Bible either promises it, typifies it, or proclaims it. Every ritual of the Old Testament, every garment of the priesthood, every sacrifice, every article of furniture in the tabernacle, the tabernacle itself, all the laws of Israel, the temple, the temple service and the prophets of God all have but one message, and they all proclaim it clearly: ‘God commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.’ This was the message which God the Holy Spirit caused to flow from the pens and from the mouths of every inspired prophet and apostle. And if God is pleased to bless his church in our day, it will be through the proclamation of this message: ‘He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.’

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