Jack Bauer & the Gospel (Season 2)

I'm now deep into season 2 of 24. I don't know why I wasn't watching this show before. It's good.Earlier I posted about how Jack Bauer articulated a doctrine of sin in season 1. In that post I explained the good news that Jesus went beyond Jack's doctrine of sin and, on the cross, took responsibility for what was not his fault (our sin).Here in season 2 of 24 it's great to see the doctrine of substitution getting some air-time. Faced with a nuclear threat, Jack Bauer decides that there's a way for one man to die in the place of, instead of, millions. Thus one man (George Mason) dies as a substitute for millions of men and women. But, what's different from George of 24 and Jesus of the Bible is this: George was an unrighteous substitute (he lived a sinful life), but Jesus was a righteous substitute (he lived a sinless life). As the sinless son of God, Jesus our substitute suffered the full fury that we deserve for our sins. And that wrath and death that Jesus endured on the cross makes the nuclear bomb of 24 look like a girl scout campfire. What a Savior we have!I'm so thankful for 2 Corinthians 5:21:

God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.