"He Was Made!"
Hebrews 7:20
All that the Lord Jesus Christ is as God,
in his Divine Being, he is (if I may be permitted to use such language) by
nature from all eternity. Omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence, majesty
and glory, infinity and immutability, sovereignty and supremacy, all are his by
nature as God. But everything Christ is as the God-man, our Mediator,
Substitute, and Representative, he was made to be by virtue of his voluntary
obedience to the Father's will as our Savior, the Surety of the everlasting
covenant. Here are five things Christ was made to be for us.
He "was made a Surety of a better
testament" (Heb.
Though God loved us with an everlasting
love and chose us to be heirs of eternal salvation, he would not and could not
have us unless we were made to be perfectly righteous in his sight. And he
could not make us righteous without the satisfaction of his justice. And his
holy justice could not slay his innocent Son. The sword of justice could not
slay an innocent Substitute. Before God could cry, "Awake, O sword, and
slay my Son," the Son of God must be "made to be sin for us."
Don Fortner