Jesus Christ Our Surety

"By so much was Jesus made a SURETY of a better testament…

Wherefore He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him,

seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them"

(Heb. 7:22-25)

When one undertakes to be surety for another, the debt is reckoned unto him and he accepts it. Thus our Dear Savior, our Blessed Surety stood up for us, engaged in our behalf. Our debts and all our iniquities were imputed to Him and laid upon Him, charged upon His person. He fully satisfied and perfectly fulfilled justice for them. By the one sacrifice of Himself, He hath taken them all away, made an end of sin, so that justice itself proclaims its faithfulness to forgive sin [1 John 1:9]. Grace reigns, Mercy triumphs, sinners are pardoned, believers rejoice. Oh believer, you are blessed by your God Who is just, therefore does not, cannot, impute sin to you. True, you have committed sins innumerable but it is true that they were all laid upon Jesus. True, you do sin but it is equally true that Christ hath born them all. You will sin yet it is perfectly true that your Savior has paid the ransom price for them all. You have nothing to plead but guilt in yourself now perfectly righteous in Christ. Every charge the enemy brings from the righteous law against you is just: own it but ever plead in your conscience before the throne; that Jesus has satisfied God’s law and justice for it all. There is now no condemnation, Romans 8:1. Oh believer, this is a most Precious Truth of God.