04/03/2026
"Because we were dead, God had to breathe spiritual life into our hearts, which he willingly and graciously did.
And because we were rebels against God’s holy law, having sinned against him from birth, a price had to be paid for our forgiveness.
The price was the suffering and death of Jesus.
He, who was sinless, took the debt for our sin on himself. That debt load was, in the person of Jesus, nailed to the cross.
The record of all our sins—past, present and future—was cancelled, eternally erased from our account, in that moment on the cross.
This is our identity in Christ.
We stand before our Lord, spotless, as if we had never sinned."
- Paul Tripp