LORD JESUS Christ, The Surety of the Covenant of Grace

When we say that all of our salvation was conditioned on the Lord Jesus Christ and not on sinners, it is not to imply that our salvation was ever uncertain. It is to show that our salvation was, is, and ever shall be a sure thing because the Lord Jesus Christ is, and always has been, the SURETY of the covenant of grace. 

There was never any doubt that Christ would perfectly and fully meet every condition and 
requirement of God’s holy law and justice to attain and maintain the complete salvation of all for whom He lived, died, and arose from the dead. All the conditions of the salvation of God’s elect can be summed up in one word –righteousness. Christ had to fulfill all righteousness by His substitutionary death on the cross as the Surety of His people. He always has been and always will be the LORD our righteousness. 

If salvation, or any part of it, were conditioned on us, sinners, we would all be damned forever because we have no righteousness and can produce no righteousness. Christ as the Lord our righteousness also fulfills the condition for spiritual life in the new birth – “And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness” (Romans 8:10). 

Christ is the Surety of the covenant in every way and for every blessing we have in and by Him. He fulfilled all the conditions of the covenant for us, and we who are in Him receive all its blessings and benefits. 

-preacher Bill Parker

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