p. 123 | Christ our Righteousness by Cummings

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1858

Christ our Righteousness.

By Cummings

JESUS suffered, having done nothing worthy of death. We shall be glorified, having done nothing worthy of life. Our sins were laid upon him, therefore he fell; his righteousness will be laid upon us, therefore we shall rise. When Jesus cried upon the cross, "It is finished," he had done, said and felt nothing before heaven and earth that deserved death; and when we shall be acquitted at the judgment seat, we shall have done, said and thought nothing that will be worthy of eternal life. Our sins were on, not in him; his righteousness is on, not in us. As he was made sin for us and in our stead, so we are made righteousness by him.—Cummings.