The instant a sinner is united to Christ, he or she becomes identified with Him in His representative forgiveness .
Forgiveness and all the blessings of covenant do not come to us merely through Christ but in Him. We do not receive them only because He earned them but by our being united together with Him and in Him, members of His body, made dynamically one with Him by the Spirit.
He as our representative returns to the Father with His blood of the new covenant, and the Father declares to Him and to us, the ones He represents, that the slate has been wiped clean: “For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more” (Jeremiah 31:34). In Him, humanity for the first time is declared not guilty and free from punishment.
- Malcolm Smith
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