The Great Exchange

The Bible says: (1) "You must not steal" (Exo 20:15 TLB). Ever stolen anything? A paper clip, a pen, the credit for someones idea? (2) " You must not lie" (Exo 20:16 TLB) You say you have not---you just did. (3) "You must not commit adultery" (Exo 20:14) Jesus said if you look at someone with lust, you have commited adultery in your heart (See Mat 5:28)---OUCH! (4) "You must not murder" (Exo 20:13 TLB) "Before you claim innocence, remember that Jess equates anger with murder. "Anyone who is so much as angry with a brother or sister is guilty of murder" (Mat 5:22). We assassinate a dozen drivers on our way to work every morning. Bad news: on your best day, you still fall far short of the divine standard required to get into heaven. Good news: "The Lord has put on him, the punishment for all the evil we have done" (see Isa 53:35). A Chinese convert to Christianity understood this. Before her baptism the pastor asked her a question to ensure understood the meaning of the cross: "Did Jesus have any sin? Yes," she replied. Troubled, he repeated the question. "Yes, He had sin" she answered again. The pastor set out to correct her, but she insisted , He had mine." Consequently, she was correct! "God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become righteous in Gods eyes This is the great exchange, the holy and the vile, trade places. God makes right what was wrong a and straight what was crooked. Somebody shout Hallelujah!