the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Grace for Today
2 Corinthians 2:15
‘Them that are saved’
Read Exodus 28:1-38
In order to be saved God requires that you must have a perfect righteousness. That righteousness which God requires of sinners he has supplied for sinners, by the incarnation and obedience of his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. As the Representative of God’s elect, the Son of God perfectly obeyed the law of God as a man, establishing righteousness in the earth. This is the only righteousness there is in the world. If you would be saved, you must have the righteousness of Christ. Your own righteousness is filthy rags in the sight of a holy God. He will never accept your righteousness, but he does accept the righteousness of his Son. This perfect righteousness of the man Christ Jesus is imputed to every sinner who believes on him.
In order to be saved God requires that you must die. ‘The wages of sin is death.’ ‘The soul that sinneth, it shall die.’ That death which God requires of sinners he has provided for sinners, in the sin-atoning death of his Son, the sinner’s Substitute. When Christ died as the Substitute for God’s elect, bearing their sins in his own body on the tree, all of God’s elect died in him. This sin-atoning sacrifice, which God has accepted, was made for every sinner who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ.
In order to be saved God requires that you must believe on his Son. You must rest your soul upon the merits of Christ’s righteousness and shed blood for all your salvation. You must trust the doing and dying of the Lord Jesus Christ alone for salvation. If you will trust Christ, you can trust him. If you can trust Christ, you will trust him. If you do trust Christ as your Savior and Lord, even that faith by which you trust him is a work of his grace in your heart. It is ‘the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast’.
