“Christ in suffering obeyed, and obeying suffered.” — William Perkins, A Reformed Catholic
Jesus, in His death, took upon Himself the sin of His people for the sake of His Father after having taken upon Himself a life of perfect obedience for the sake of His people to the glory of His Father.
2 Corinthians 5:21
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Jesus left His perfect righteous reward to those who would by grace and through faith receive it and He took our utterly depraved punishment upon Himself so that He might become what He never was so that we might be what we could never become.
Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in Thee;
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy wounded side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and make me pure
-- August Toplady, Rock of Ages
Salvation requires a double cure. We have sin that needs to be punished and we need righteousness we cannot achieve Christ accomplishes both in earning a righteous reward which He leaves as an inheritance to those who by faith receive Him and in taking the condemnation of the wicked which He assumed as His own by hanging with it on the cross.
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