Over the last couple of weeks I have been leading a discussion with our VBS workers on the nature of the Gospel. The Gospel is outside of us. It is accomplished by the Triune God. We must respond in repentance and faith to experience its fruit; however, the Gospel is performed by God himself. Hear these perceptive words:
God has provided for your perfect deliverance from sin in Christ. Everything needed for this purpose was finished by him on the cross. He was your surety. He suffered for you. Your sins were crucified with him and nailed to his cross. They were put to death when he died, for he was your covenant-head, and you, as a member of his body, were legally represented by him and are indeed dead to sin by his dying to sin once.
The law has now no more right to condemn you, a believer, than it has to condemn him. Justice is bound to deal with you as it has with your risen and ascended Savior. William Romaine (The Life, Walk and Triumph of Faith, 280).
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