Christ got the bad that we deserve so that we can get His goodness that we do not deserve

Believers, with Christ as our righteousness and strength, we get the "goodness of God" that we do not deserve, EVEN WHEN WE SIN, because Christ got the bad that we deserve. All of this so that we do not continue to sin. Why? The goodness of God is what leads to repentance.

Jesus Christ "our High Priest offered Himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time" (Hebrews 10:12.) Our past, present and future sins are all overpaid. We are forever made perfect by His one offering. See verses 14-17:

"For by that one offering He forever made perfect those who are being made holy." 15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies that this is so. For He says,

16 “This is the new covenant I will make

with My people on that day, says the Lord:

I will put my laws in their hearts,

and I will write them on their minds.”

17 Then He says,

“I will never again remember

their sins and lawless deeds.”

In Christ, God does not remember our sins. The wages of sin is death and Christ died that death - "a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time."

With Him as our righteousness and strength, we get the "goodness of God" that we do not deserve, EVEN WHEN WE SIN, because He got the bad that we deserve.

This is where many religious people lose it and act like everyone except them is just looking for an excuse to wallow in sin. But many sinners hate their sins and are looking for the Way out. In many places of worship these beloved of God who are held captive by sins are told to try harder to stop sinning and obey the law "better" by those who think they have some good in them and think that they can keep the law and transform sinners with the Ten Commandments. This only causes sin to have dominion- "For sin shall not have dominion over you for you are not under law but under Grace." Romans 6:14. It is also the way to get cut off from Christ, "For if you are trying to make yourselves right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ! You have fallen away from God's grace." Galatians 5:4.

Believers, this is the gospel: Christ got the bad that we deserve so that we can get the goodness of God that we do not deserve. But this "goodness of God" is not a license to sin. It is the Way to right living: it is the goodness of God that leads to repentance. We see this in Romans 2:4- "Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?"

Even when we sin, we remain righteous in His sight; not because God has gone soft on sin (He will punish sin to the uttermost) but because Christ paid the price for our sins. GOD PUNISHED OUR SINS UTTERLY IN HIS BODY. But in Christ, we do not continue to live in sin! When we receive God's abundance of Grace and His gift of righteousness to us in Christ, we get to live in triumph over sin and death. See this in Romans 5:17-

"For the sin of this one man, Adam, caused death to rule over many. But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, Jesus Christ."

This is the only way to live in triumph over sin and death. The letter kills. Try to obey the law and sin will have dominion.

For all who believe, Christ is "The Lord our Righteousness." God cannot punish the same sins twice- in the body of our Saviour and a second time in the believer. He corrects/chastens us when we err but never with the punishment that Christ took for us (death and all of its symptoms of fear, anxiety, stress, sickness, oppression, lack, earthly ills, etc.) According to Hebrews 12, His discipline is so that we might "live," "share His holiness" and "yield the peaceful fruit of righteousness." His discipline brings life and causes us to live right, never death. See Hebrews 12:

"9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness."

In Christ, we are "sons of God." If you had an employee that was always misbehaving, very slow to catch up on what you want done - even messing your work up - and always stealing from you, you would chuck her out when you get fed up and replace with a more competent employee. But you're not likely to chuck own child who out:) You'll likely do your best to train him up in the way he should go. In Christ, our Abba Father who can never fail is our Trainer. With Him, no one is untrainable:) No way you won't bear fruit when you abide in Christ the Vine. See John 15:5-

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing."

This is Grace- undeserved, unearned, unmerited favour. Grace is for sinners, not those who can save themselves from their sins or obey the law in order to earn a ticket to heaven.

Come to Christ with your baggage of sins and experience what He came to do: "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” Matt. 1:21. Why don't you ask Him to rid you of every wrong theology and wrong believing today? He will help you. He is Saviour.