Wednesday, May 07, 2008

The Great Exchange


"This is that mystery which is rich in divine grace to sinners: wherein by a wonderful exchange our sins are no longer ours but Christ's, and the righteousness of Christ not Christ's but ours. He has emptied himself of his righteousness that he might clothe us with it and fill us with it; and he has taken our evils upon himself that he might deliver us from them."

-Martin Luther, quoted in J. I. Packer and Mark Dever, In My Place Condemned He Stood, page 85

(HT: Ray Ortlund)

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