It is right for us to consider ourselves before God as we come to the Table of His presence and are reminded of the great cost necessary so that our sins would be forgiven…
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Colossians 2:14-15
…by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. He disarmed the rulers and authorities and put them to open shame, by triumphing over them in him.
The scene has been played out over the entire course of fallen human history: two great armies come to oppose one another on the field of battle. For those who would like to predict the winner of such a battle, they would carefully examine the number of soldiers, the quality and number of their weapons, battle readiness, along with any number of other factors that can best be used to determine the victor. Generally speaking and judging by merely outwards standards, the best bet would be to choose the stronger army with the better weapons.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
We live in a fallen world and the one thing we know about a fallen world is that sometimes justice and righteousness do not prevail. There are miscarriages of justice all around us and plenty of examples of the innocent being found guilty, and the guilty being declared innocent. We long for courts where righteousness dwells, but instead, in so many places, we have what the prophet Habakkuk (1:4) noted in Judah of old:
