Has Christ Delivered You From Your Trespasses and Sins; By Repentance Towards God and Faith in the LORD Jesus Christ? A Point to Ponder . . .

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A Devotional Thought for June 9, 2025

Christ Was Delivered for Our Trespasses

“[Christ] . . . who was delivered for our trespassed and raised for our justification”

Romans 4: 25.

We received, by our thus being counted in him, that benefit which did precede his rising from the dead; and what was that but the forgiveness of sins? For this stands clear to reason, that if Christ had our sins charged upon him at his death, he then must be discharged of them to his resurrection. Now, though it is not proper to say they were forgiven to him, because they were purged from him by [his] merit. Yet they may be said to be forgiven us, because we receive this benefit by grace. And this, I say, was done precedent to his resurrection from the dead. “He hath quickened us together with him, HAVING forgiven us all trespasses.” He could not be “quickened” till we were “discharged.” Because it was not for himself, but for us, that he died. Hence, we are said to be at that time, as to our own personal estate, dead in our sins, even when we are “quickened together with him” (Colossians 2: 13).

Therefore, both the “quickening” and “forgiveness” too, so far as we are in this text concerned, is to him, as we are considered in him, or to him, with respect to us. “Having forgiven you ALL trespasses.” For necessity . . . [it is] required; because how else was it possible that the pains of death should be loosed in his rising. A full discharge therefore was, in and by Christ, received of God of all our sins afore he rose from the dead. As his resurrection [was] truly declared: For he “was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification” (Romans 4: 25). This therefore is one of the privileges we receive by the rising again of our Lord, for that we were in his flesh considered, yea, and in his death and suffering too.