2. Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent — both are detestable to the Lord. Proverbs 17:15

4. Article 5 – The Work of Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ, as our representative and substitute, shed His blood on the cross as the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for our sins. His atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.

5. Article 5: The Work of Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross as our representative and substitute.

6. Article 5: The Work of Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross as our representative and substitute.
And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark 8:31

7. Article 5: The Work of Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross as our representative and substitute.
Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? But for this purpose I have come to this hour.
John 12:27

8. Article 5: The Work of Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross as our representative and substitute.
Knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
1 Peter 1:18-19

9. Jesus Our Representative
Jesus is our representative through his humanity.

10. Jesus Our Representative
Jesus is our representative through his humanity.
Jesus is our representative through his Messianic Kingship.

11. Jesus Our Representative
Jesus is our representative through his humanity.
Jesus is our representative through his Messianic Kingship.
Jesus is our representative through his High Priestly role.

12. What Does It Mean That Jesus is Our Substitute?
It means that Jesus died in place of us.

13. What Does It Mean That Jesus is Our Substitute?
It means that Jesus died in place of us.
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God…1 Peter 3:18
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us… Galatians 3:13

14. What Does It Mean That Jesus is Our Substitute?
It means that Jesus paid the penalty of sin that we should have paid.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter 2:24

15. What Does It Mean That Jesus is Our Substitute?
It means that Jesus’ suffering and death in our place satisfied the righteous justice of God the Father.

16. For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. 24 Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. 25 For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood.

17. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past, 26 for he was looking ahead and including them in what he would do in this present time. God did this to demonstrate his righteousness, for he himself is fair and just, and he makes sinners right in his sight when they believe in Jesus. Romans 3:23-26

18. What Does It Mean That Jesus is Our Substitute?
It means that Jesus’ suffering and death in our place satisfied the righteous justice of God the Father.

19. Article 5: The Work of Christ
We believe that Jesus Christ is the perfect, all-sufficient sacrifice for the sins of humanity – nothing can be added to what Christ has already accomplished!

20. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, 13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. Hebrews 10:12

21. Good Deeds Do Not Save
The good deeds of sinful people do nothing to help sinful people become holy; it is only the holy work of Christ on behalf of sinful people that cleanses our sin.

22. Article 5: The Work of Christ
We believe that both his atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.

23. Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, 2 and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. 3 For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures… 1 Corinthians 15:1-4

24. If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. 15 We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised. 16 For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised. 17 And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. 1 Corinthians 15:14-17

25. Article 5: The Work of Christ
We believe that both his atoning death and victorious resurrection constitute the only ground for salvation.
Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.
Acts 2:36

26. But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. 1Corinthians 15:20

27. Consider:
It is this work of Christ, his atoning death, and his victorious resurrection that provides the only way for people to be saved from their sin.