Scripture: 1 Pet 2:24, Isa 53:5, etc.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed (1 Pet 2:24).
As Christ “bore our sins in his body,” he became a sinner by being united with us. It was the fulfillment of the Scripture, as he said during the Last Supper:
It is written: “And he was numbered with the transgressors”; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in me. Yes, what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment (Luke 22:37).”
If his being numbered with the transgressors was a spiritual reality, so was our being made the righteousness of God like him by being united with him.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (1 Cor 5:21).
This “righteousness of God” is the same righteousness as Jesus’. It presupposes that we have become spiritually one with Him. This unification was what happened at the Passover meal, the Last Supper.
