Righteousness, Life, and Blessing

Reflect on these words about the passion of King Jesus:

And it draws the powerful conclusion that through the curse, sin, and death of Christ 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 Christ, 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 Christ, and, on the other hand, to transfer righteousness, life, and blessing from him to us.

Martin Luther