Open line on April 22, 2023 hour 2
Tom:
I am asking this question for grand daughter Hazel in Charlotte. 2 Corinthians 5:21, what does it mean that He made Him to be sin who knew no sin.
Dr Michael Rydelnik:
He made Him who knew no sin to become sin. Now, some people mistakenly, I think, believe that the Lord Jesus, you’ve heard this, right that all the sins of the world came on Him, that’s why my Lord Jesus say “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Cos the Father could not look upon sin, Habbakuk 1:13, your eyes are too pure to look upon sin. I just want to be really clear. One, The Lord Jesus never became sinful. He never committed sin, he didn’t even somehow become sinful vicariously. He did not become sinful. Secondly, the eternal fellowship of the Father and the Son was never broken. That was a rhetorical question, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” It’s a rhetorical question, you keep reading, he’s quoting from Psalm 22, you can see that He knows why. So, I think we have tremendous theological issues if the fellowship between the Father and the Son could even be broken for a moment. So, I am going to say you’ve seen ellipsis dot dot dot, 2 Corinthians 5:21 has an ellipsis in there. It is He made Him who knew no sin to become a sin offering on our behalf. So there was a sort of symbolic transference of our sins but not an actual transference of our sin to the Lord Jesus. He didn’t become sinful intrinsically but rather He became a substitutional payment for our sin. So, 2 Corinthians 5:21 is, if we fill in the ellipsis, He became a sin offering and then He throws us right back to the old Testament and the book of Leviticus. Now, I want Joe, would you comment about how significant that sin offering is?
Joe Stowell:
I would be delighted to do that. You know, Isaiah 53, it says He bore our sins, He didn’t become our sin, he bore our sins,
Dr Michael Rydelnik:
He bore the punishments …
Joe Stowell:
Exactly, and I think the significance of that is in all of our sinfulness, there’s shame and there’s guilt, and there’s regret and all of that was on Him at the cross and He died naked publicly. The shame, just think of all of us who feel shame for our sin, he bore that for us. He became shame for us. He bore our guilt and all of that, to cleanse us. So that we have shame no more, and we have guilt no more and that in our Love, we cease sinning because we are so grateful, that’s what drives us, our gratitude to not want to continue to sin. So, the picture of what Christ’s done on the cross is certainly one of the most significant realities we face in our lives as fallen sinners who have no hope to help ourselves to think that the creator God said I will take care of this for you.
2 Corinthians 5
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. -nkjv
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. -kjv
21 He made Him who knew no sin to be[j]sin in our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. -nasb
21 God made him who had no sin to be sin[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. -niv
Habakkuk 1
13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil,
And cannot look on wickedness.
Why do You look on those who deal treacherously,
And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours
A person more righteous than he? -nkjv
13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? -kjv
13 Your eyes are too pure to look at evil,
And You cannot look at harm favorably.
Why do You look favorably
At those who deal treacherously?
Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up
Those more righteous than they? -nasb
13 Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;
you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?
Why are you silent while the wicked
swallow up those more righteous than themselves? -niv
Psalm 22
1My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
Why are You so far from helping Me,
And from the words of My groaning? -nkjv
1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? -kjv
1My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?
Far from my [b]help are the words of my [c]groaning. -nasb
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish? -niv
Isaiah 53
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to [q]bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
11 [r]He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the [s]spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors. -nkjv
10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. -kjv
10 But the Lord desired
To crush Him, [g]causing Him grief;
If He renders [h]Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His [i]offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the [j]good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand.
11 As a result of the [k]anguish of His soul,
He will [l]see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
For He will bear their wrongdoings.
12 Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the plunder with the strong,
Because He poured out His [m]life unto death,
And was counted with wrongdoers;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the wrongdoers. -nasb
10 Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer,
and though the Lord makes[c] his life an offering for sin,
he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.
11 After he has suffered,
he will see the light of life[d] and be satisfied[e];
by his knowledge[f] my righteous servant will justify many,
and he will bear their iniquities.
12 Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,[g]
and he will divide the spoils with the strong,[h]
because he poured out his life unto death,
and was numbered with the transgressors.
For he bore the sin of many,
and made intercession for the transgressors. -niv
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