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Introduction: The plan of God is eternal. Jesus Christ was slain for sinners in the mind of God before the world began (Rev 13:8). Because the wisdom of God is infinite, so His plan is infinite in its intricacy. At the same time, God is the ultimate of simplicity, and therefore so is His plan.
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world. - 1 John 4:4 I HAVE GOD’S SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND REVELATION That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the
- INTRODUCTION
- I. THE RELATION OF CHRIST'S WORK TO SIN
- II. THE PERFORMANCE OF CHRIST'S WORK IN TIME AS AN EVENT IN HISTORY
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF DEATH
- OUR LORD'S ATTITUDE TO HIS OWN DEATH
- b. Christ's breaking of the bread to feed the hungry
- c. Christ's declaration that He came to give His life a ransom for many3
- CHRIST'S BURIAL AND RESURRECTION
- THE WITNESS OF THE TWO SACRAMENTS OF THE GOSPEL
- CORRESPONDING FULFILMENT IN CHRIST
- HOW CHRIST FINISHED THE WORK OF ATONEMENT
- THE VEIL RENT
- a. 'Sit thou on my right hand till I make thine enemies the footstool of thy feet'2
- THE PLACE OF OFFERING IN CHRIST'S PRIESTLY MINISTRY
- OUR LORD'S OWN STATEMENTS ABOUT HIS FATHER'S HOUSE
- SIGNIFICANCE OF THE GIFT OF THE SPIRIT
- a. Reconciliation already achieved and enjoyed
The idea that Christ's atoning work is 'finished' is Scriptural in origin; it is indeed based on a word uttered by our Lord Himself before His death on the cross. We read that Jesus said, 'tetšlestai - It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up his spirit.'1 Clearly, therefore, when Jesus at last reached the point of departure from this pre...
There is great need for a clear recognition of the definite and distinctive purpose of Christ's redeeming and reconciling work. Activity which may be eternally true of the divine Son in His relation to the Father, or activity which ought to be characteristic of sinless and perfect man in his relation to God, namely continuous devotion of self as a ...
Ideas that Christ's work is supremely achieved continuously or eternally in heaven sound philosophically attractive and spiritually good. Actually such ideas are unscriptural and irrelevant to man's need of redemption and reconciliation. For God has been pleased to deal with the situation which man's sin has created on the field of earthly history,...
As an aid to fuller appreciation of what we understand the evidence to imply it may be helpful at this stage briefly to indicate what is, as we see it, the significance attached in the Bible both to death itself, and to the voluntary submission to such death of the sinless God-man Christ Jesus. For in the thought-world of Scriptural truth, death is...
The Gospel records themselves provide ample evidence that this is how Christ Himself during His life-time saw the death which He set Himself to face to be both absolutely necessary and abundantly worthwhile. Let us consider three significant illustrations.
In the familiar stories of the feeding first of the five thousand, and then of the four thousand, the point at which the miracle happened is unmistakably clear: indeed, Jesus later rebuked His disciples for not remembering. It was when He broke the loaves that on each occasion there were enough broken fragments for all to be satisfied and enough ov...
In Biblical usage the word 'ransom' (Greek, lÚtron, Hebrew, kôpher) is clearly a price paid to deliver anyone from threatened or merited punishment, and particularly to secure release and rescue from death of a life otherwise forfeit. 4 Ps. xlix. 6-8 declares of those who 'trust in their wealth' that 'none of them can by any means redeem his brothe...
The completely changed situation immediately following the death of Jesus may also be discerned in what happened to His dead body. For God providentially took over its proper care. Though Jesus suffered to the point of dying as though He were a sinner, as one numbered with transgressors, and publicly bearing the curse due to sin, yet once He was de...
That this is the truth on which all Christian faith and hope should rest is confirmed by that ordinance which the Lord ordained as the Christian Passover, an ordinance in which we remember the redemption once for all accomplished by His death, from which innumerable benefits unceasingly flow. For the sacrament of the Holy Communion is not a means t...
All this should prepare our minds the better to appreciate both the character and the wonder of the actual tele...wsij in Christ. He was able to bring forth, to finish the work of propitiation, and thus to win through beyond it to the crowning fulfilment and ministry of priesthood, into which the Levitical priests were never able to enter, and whic...
Let us now consider in more detail how Christ as high priest finished the work of atonement. To begin with, the Scripture states explicitly that every high priest is 'taken from among men,'2 and that 'it behoved him in all things to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to ...
What is more, by this sacrifice of Christ on the cross, and by this entrance into God's presence through death, sin and the veil which shut men out from the sanctuary were not just tem-porarily and figuratively covered or by-passed; they were actually and eternally removed and done away. This fact is, of course, dramatically indicated in the Gospel...
First, Jesus was hailed as the victor, who had done all that God required, and who was worthy to be rewarded. So, without being given more to do in heaven to complete His work, He was told by God Himself at once to occupy the seat of supreme power in the universe at God's right hand; and God Himself promised to see that all His enemies were brought...
Here some would contend that, if Christ is, as the Scripture makes so plain, still our great high priest in heaven, He must have something to offer.5 Since any fresh sacrifice or repetition of Calvary is unthinkable, they imagine that the one sacrifice, begun decisively at a point in time on the cross, goes on without end in eternity; that Christ i...
For yet more fundamental confirmation of the truth concerning the tele...wsij of priesthood and of reconciliation to God in the death of Christ it is possible to appeal to the significant implications of some of our Lord's own words with reference to His Father's house, particularly as they are recorded in the fourth Gospel. One may find here unmis...
A similar consummation is suggested by our Lord's references to the gift of the indwelling Spirit to dwell in the hearts and in midst of His disciples - references which significantly occur in St. John's Gospel in the utterances of Jesus which immediately follow the passages (from Jn. xii and xiv) which we have just considered. For such an incoming...
We quote Rom. v. 10 and 11: 'For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life; and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.' Here reconciliation is spoken of as a work ac...
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Atonement includes 12 chapters that work their way through New Testament images for the atonement, redemption in light of the Old Testament, the priesthood of Christ, Paul’s teaching on justification, atonement as reconciliation, and as redemption, an extended discussion of the soteriological significance of the resurrection of Christ, an ...
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Positionally, “if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation” (2 Cor. 5.17mg.); experientially, old habits will have to be shed and new habits formed through the working of the cross in his life. A few principal characteristics of the life of Christ need to be incorporated in the worker before he is qualified to be a servant of God ...
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Oct 7, 2024 · When we are united in Christ, we reflect the relationship of Jesus and the Father and point others to God. Largest Lego Model Took Vision and Teamwork Source: Angela Watercutter, "This 23-Ton, 5.3-Million-Brick X-Wing Is the Biggest Lego Model Ever," Wired Magazine (5-16-12)
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