Chapter 3: The Pleasure of Obedience

Have you ever thought about the wonderful truth that Christ lived His perfect life in your place and on your behalf? Has it yet gripped you that when God looks at you today He sees you clothed in the perfect, sinless obedience of His Son? And that when He says, "This is my Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased," He includes you in that warm embrace? The extent to which we truly understand this is the extent to which we will begin to enjoy those unsearchable riches that are found in Christ. (39)

Chapter 6: The Scapegoat

Because of a teenage prank, my friend was convicted of a felony, but received what is called in Canada a Queen's pardon. Years later, when he was routinely investigated for criminal activity, the response came back, "We have no record of this person." His record has not just been marked "pardoned," it has been completely removed from the file and destroyed. It's as if my friend had never been convicted. There is no permanent legal stain hanging over his head. There is no chance that the offense will ever arise to haunt him in the future.
This is what God has done for us. He has blotted out our sins, removing them from His record. (65)

Chapter 8: Reconciliation

However, in the midst of God's work and our struggle with indwelling sin, we must always keep in mind that our status of favor and friendship with God is always, and ever will be, based on the objective work of Christ for us as our representative and substitute. (97)

"We bring nothing to our salvation except our sin that made it necessary." (98)

Chapter 10: Paul's Great Exchange

To use the food analogy, instead of seeing our own righteousness as table scraps to be dumped down the garbage chute, we see it as leftovers to be used later to earn answers to prayer. (123)