“Did you get all of it?” This is the question many cancer patients ask their doctors following surgery. A successful surgery is when all the cancer is removed. Cancer is like sin; we do not want only part of it removed, but all of it. The promise of the gospel is that Jesus Christ removes all of our sin. As Horatio Spafford so eloquently writes in It is Well,

“My sin–O the bliss of this glorious thought!-my sin, not in part but the whole, is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!”

“Did you get all of it?” The answer is unequivocally, YES!! Jesus removed all our sin from us by becoming sin for us. Our Redeemer never knew sin but was made to be sin so that we might become the righteousness of God. We know that our sin has been fully removed from us because we are now righteous in Christ. We have the righteousness of God and sin cannot co-exist with His righteousness. We are fully righteous as our sin has been fully removed.