Righteousness, Life, and Blessing

Reflect on these words about the passion of the Lord Jesus:

And it draws the powerful conclusion that
through the curse, sin, and death of the Messiah
we are blessed,
that is, justified and made alive.

So long as sin, death, and the curse remain in us,
sin damns us,
death kills us,
and the curse curses us;
but when these things are transferred to the Messiah,
what is ours becomes his and what is his becomes ours.

Let us learn, therefore, in every temptation to transfer sin, death, the curse,
and all the evils that oppress us from ourselves to the Messiah,
and, on the other hand,
to transfer righteousness, life, and blessing from the Messiah to us.

Martin Luther