3. the Most Wonderful Fact

BY HIS POVERTY WE ARE MADE RICH.
"For ye know the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich." 2 Cor. 8:9
What a most wonderful theme we have here for our contemplation.
The great, the deep, the unfathomable poverty of the Son of God on the cross has procured us riches, incredible riches.
How great these riches must be, riches that have been won for poor lost sinners, for whom Christ died, but who now believe Him and His Word.
We shall find indeed that while the Riches of Christ that He had with the Father before the world are wonderful, the fact that such a One became so poor brings something greatly wonderful before our hearts, and that is the most wonderful of all: Riches that God has given us in Christ. This is the fullness of the blessed Gospel, a fullness that is so little preached and less believed today. Some emphasize in Gospel preaching the fact of the forgiveness of sins and, how the believing sinner is freely justified from all things.
A great blessing this is indeed, to know sins forgiven and put away forever. That blessedness David knew when he wrote the Thirty-second Psalm.
"Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile."Psa. 32:1-2
But forgiveness is but a part of God's blessed salvation. Others make prominent the impartation of the new life, eternal life; the certainty of salvation and deliverance from the wrath to come.
All these and other precious fruits are part of the blessed result of the finished work of the Son of God. There is, however, a higher revelation of what the believing sinner saved by Grace has become in Christ. This fullest blessing is ours in Him as our beautiful text reveals. It is that we have become wonderfully rich through Him.
And what are these riches that belong to us on account of the wonderful poverty of the Lord Jesus Christ?
Have we ever considered that these Riches are actually ours in the Lord Jesus Christ? How rich are we in Him?
We are saved by Grace, through faith, by the poverty of our Lord Jesus Christ when He was forsaken on that cross. And now, we are as rich as He is in yonder Glory!
This is a great assertion and it is a wonderful claim, yet it is fully true, true forever and ever, even for the countless ages of a never-ending eternity.
Let us now ascertain as to how rich He is, Who was our Substitute on the cross of Calvary.