Christ as Our Substitute for God's Wrath and Our Reward His Work

The Apostle Paul, in his second epistle to the Corinthians, makes an assertion of unparalleled profundity: "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Corinthians 5:21). This single verse in the Scriptures illuminates the biblical doctrine of imputation, the forensic exchange whereby G…