We know that Jesus came to “save His people from their sins” (Matt. 1:21). We know that Jesus “gave Himself for our sins” and “died for our sins according to the Scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:3). We know that Jesus “bore our sins in His own body on the tree” (1 Pet. 2:24). Perhaps we’ve heard that 
so much that we’ve allowed the force of it to fade in our hearts.
Paul reminded the Christians in Corinth, “For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21). It is not simply that He died for our sins. He was a man who never sinned against God one time and did not know what that experience was like. Then, all at once (Heb. 9:28), He was made “to be sin” for all of us! Every sin that was ever committed or ever would be committed was laid upon Him (Isa. 53:6). He became our sin offering (Ex. 29:14; Heb. 9:28).
May God help me to remember my sin offering when I’m tempted to yield to sin!