His Robes For Mine

His Robes for Mine

His robes for mine: O wonderful exchange!

Clothed in my sin, Christ suffered 'neath God's rage.

Draped in His righteousness I'm justified.

In Christ I live, for in my place He died.

Isaiah 53:4-5 

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

(Chorus) 

I cling to Christ and marvel at the cost.

Jesus forsaken, God estranged from God.

Bought by such love, my life is not my own.

My praise, my all, shall be for Christ alone.

Matthew 27:46 

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama 

sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

His robes for mine: what cause have I for dread?

God's daunting Law, Christ mastered in my stead.

Faultless I stand, with righteous works not mine.

Saved by my Lord's vicarious death and life.

Philippians 3:9 

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but

 that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

His robes for mine: God's justice is appeased.

Jesus is crushed, and thus the Father's pleased.

Christ drank God's wrath on sin, then cried, "Tis done!"

Sin's wage is paid, propitiation won.

John 19:30

 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and 

he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

John 17:4

 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

(Chorus) 

I cling to Christ and marvel at the cost.

Jesus forsaken, God estranged from God.

Bought by such love, my life is not my own.

My praise, my all, shall be for Christ alone.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye

 have of God, and ye are not your own?For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify 

God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's. 

His robes for mine: such anguish none can know.

Christ, God's beloved, condemned as though His foe.

He, as though I, accursed and left alone.

I, as though He, embraced and welcomed home!

John 3:16-17

 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.