He Took My Place on the Cross

“And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one tittle of the law to fail.” Luke 16:17

Jesus was the perfect law keeper. He was the only person in history that kept the law and he kept it on my behalf.
He took my place at the cross,  He took my sin, he bore my sicknesses, he was filled with my fears, he experienced my depression, and he was overcome with my desperation.
I killed Jesus, it was my sin that he carried, God did not kill His own son, I killed him, He took my place, experienced my death and along with those physically present, I was the reason Jesus died at the Cross, He took my place. God wept as He saw his son die in my place.
The great exchange is my dirty, sin stained life for His deserved riches and glory.
I inherit in Him all the favor of God and this power and life now dwells inside every believer.
Eternal life in all it power, fullness and perfection does not start when we get to heaven. It begins as soon as we believe and put faith in Christ.  One day we will experience eternal life without the constraints of what is left behind with our old man.

Andrew Wommack brilliantly explains that the debt has been paid and we can go free: -
The jot was not only one of the smallest letters of the Hebrew alphabet, but also one of the most insignificant, being sometimes deleted at the writer’s pleasure. The tittle was only a mark or a point on a line that helped distinguish one letter from another. The tittle corresponds to our period or apostrophe. The point that Jesus is making is that even the tiniest detail of the law would not pass away.


Christ fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law. The law was ordained to life, but no one could keep it. So, God Himself became flesh. He did what no sinful flesh had ever done. He kept the law thereby winning the life of God as the prize for keeping the law. This granted Him eternal life but before He could give it to us, we still had a debt that had to be paid. This is similar to someone receiving the death penalty for some hideous crime, then some billionaire leaves his whole estate to him. It would do the condemned man no good. But if that same billionaire could somehow take that man’s place and die for him, then he could go free and enjoy his new wealth. That’s what Jesus did for us. He took our sins and gave us His righteousness.