I heard someone say that Jesus died a sinner, which I thought sounded heretical at first. While meditating on 2 Corinthians 5:21, it occurred to me that Jesus dying as a sinner was theologically correct even though the Bible says Jesus was without sin.
How can that be? In 2 Corinthians 5:21, the Apostle Paul wrote God made Jesus who was sinless to take our sin so that we can become the righteousness of God, meaning we have been made right with God and clothed with the righteousness of Christ even though we are still sinners. We have peace with God only because the sinless Christ took on our sin. Tim Keller wrote:
God clothed Jesus in our sin. He took our penalty, our punishment so that we...can get what Revelation 19:7-8 pictures: "Let us rejoice and be glad...Fine linen, bright and clean, is given [to us] to wear." Pure linen-perfectly clean-without stain or blemish. Hebrews 13 says Jesus was crucified outside the gate where bodies are burned-the garbage heap, a place of absolute uncleanliness-so that we can be made clean (King's Cross)
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