Substitution, The Sinner’s Hope – Charles Spurgeon

THE doctrine of atonement, as it is often preached, is a hazy, misty doing of something by which the law is honored, or perhaps dishonored, for I scarce know which to call it; this yields me no joy; but when I know that Christ was literally and positively, not metaphorically and by way of figure, but literally and positively the substitute for his own people, and when I know that trusting in him I have the evidence of being one of his people, why my soul begins to say, Now let me live! I’m clean, through Jesus’ blood I’m clean. Now let me die! for I shall boldly stand in the day of resurrection, through Jesus my Lord.