I 1 Peter 2 v 24 we read,' He himself bore our sins in His own body on the cross',there are two things I would highlight in that statement ,Christ on the cross was our substitute,in other words he was taken the sinners place.The second thing is ,He was taking the sinners punishment,so let us consider the first ,our Saviour being the sinners substitute.It is Charles Dickens who wrote the novel called ,' A tale of two cities',its setting is French revolution,during the Reign of Terror,under Robespierre,were many people were executed including the King and Queen.In the novel Charles Darny was being held in prison awaiting to be executed,he is married to an English girl,she had a friend who loved her,called Sydney Carton. He made the heroic decision take the place of Charles,and this he did,and so went to the guillotine and died in place of another.So Christ went to the cross in our stead . It is in Romans 5 ,the apostle Paul writes,'Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this, while we were still sinners Christ died for us'. he follows that up by saying, in our unsaved state we were God's enemies'.It is amazing to think of such love,after all who would die for those who hated and despised Him, Christ did.
' Man of sorrows ! what a name
For the Son of God who came
Ruined sinners to reclaim!
Hallelujah! what a Saviour.
Bearing shame and scoffing rude,
In my place condemned He stood;
Sealed my pardon with His blood;
Hallelujah! what a Saviour.
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