The greatest spiritual law in the Bible, and the one that ensures our salvation, is that of imputation. This is the act of one person adding something to another person’s account. All men are born with a sin nature and the wages of that sin is death. We got our sin nature handed down to us through Adam. In the Garden of Eden, Adam sinned against God and took on a sin nature that was then imputed (passed down) to all men who came after Adam. So then So then, through the spiritual law of imputation all men have sinned because of Adam’s original sin and therefore come under the judgement of God requiring a death, a blood sacrifice, to atone for that sin. The justice of God requires this.
Since no man was worthy to be that atoning sacrifice for our sins God Himself came down off His throne to die in our place so that we might have our sins forgiven and have eternal life in heaven in fellowship with God. God came to earth as the man Jesus because a human being was required for this sacrifice. Jesus was both fully man and fully God. Jesus Christ died a horrible death on the cross at Calvary in our place, thereby taking on to Himself the sins of all men, past, present and future. The wrath of God for that sin fell on Jesus instead of us. Jesus died for you and for me.
It’s personal. By the spiritual law of imputation our sin was imputed (passed down) to Jesus so he could bear it for us. In exchange for our sin, Jesus exchanged or imputed (passed down) to us His righteousness. When God looks down from His throne at us now He doesn’t see our sin. Our sin was forgiven. In sin’s place God only sees the righteousness of His beloved Son Jesus. We have passed from death to life. This is the greatest swap of all time by the grace of a loving God.
Rom 5:12 – Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned.
John 1:14 – And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…full of grace and truth.
Luke 19:10 – For the Son of Man has come to seek and save that which was lost.
Mat 26:28 – For this is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.
Rom 4:24 – It (righteousness) shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead.