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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
Hebrews 10:5-7
‘Why did Christ come?’
Read Isaiah 61:1-11
1. Christ came into the world to establish righteousness for us as a man. He came to restore that which we lost in our sin and fall in Adam. He said, ‘I restored that which I took not away’ (Psalms 69:4). God required righteousness from us, perfect conformity to his holy law. But we are guilty. We have broken God’s law. And we have no ability to live in righteous obedience to God’s law, because we are sinful by nature. But the Lord Jesus Christ came as a man, without sin, to live as our Representative in perfect obedience to the law and will of God. Now by his obedience to God as our Representative, Christ established righteousness before God for his people. And it is written, ‘By the obedience of one shall many be made righteous’ (Romans 5:19).
2. Christ came to redeem his people by dying as our Substitute under the wrath of God. Christ Jesus was born at Bethlehem as a man, so that he might die at Calvary in the place of sinners, according to the will of God our Father. At the appointed time our Lord was nailed to the cursed tree. God took all the sins of all his people and made them to be his Son’s, so that by divine imputation the Son of God was made to be sin for us. God’s law and justice found our sins upon Christ and punished him for sin as our Substitute. Since the law of God punished Christ for sin in our place, we are redeemed. All who believe, all God’s elect, are fully pardoned through Christ’s precious blood. ‘Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree’ (Galatians 3:13).
3. Christ came to glorify his Father in the salvation of sinners. Since Christ Jesus lived in righteousness as our and died under the curse of the law as our Substitute, satisfying the righteousness and justice of God for us, God’s glory is revealed in the salvation of his elect. Christ Jesus lived and died for us, so that God could be both just and the justifier of all who believe (Romans 3:24-26).
