Foundation for Reformed Theology

Greetings!

What do we receive from Christ? What good gifts does God give us in him?

John Calvin wrote this about "the wonderful exchange":

Our Lord presents Himself freely to us in His Son Jesus Christ, offering us in Him all happiness in place of our misery, all abundance in place of our poverty, and opening to us in Him all His heavenly treasures and riches so that all our faith may look to His very dear Son, all our expectation may be in Him, and all our hope may rest on him. . . . We are taught by faith to know that all the good we need and which we lack in ourselves is in God and in His Son our Lord Jesus Christ, in whom the Father has established all the fullness of His blessings and abundance so that we may draw everything from there as from a very full fountain.

Institutes of the Christian Religion: 1541 French Edition, translated by Elsie Anne McKee (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009), p. 458.

So let us gladly receive all the Christ gives to us.

Dr. James C. Goodloe IVGrace and Peace,

Dr. James C. Goodloe IV, Executive
    Director

Foundation for Reformed Theology

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