If a sinner is to be justified, he must find his righteousness not in himself but in another, i.e. in Christ, whom God set forth to declare His righteousness. How Christ wrought out the necessary righteousness for man should be known to every careful reader of Scripture. What man could not do for himself, Christ did for him—obeyed the precepts of the law without sin, and suffered the penalty of the law, death, so that, as the old divines say, by His passive obedience, death, He cancelled the sinner’s guilt, and by His active obedience in living He acquired for the sinner a title to eternal life.

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