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Atonement and the Cross
of Christ
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Review
• The basis of the atonement – God’s nature• Cosmic crisis• The fall into sin• The divine initiative• Atonement announced • Atonement in symbols (2 lessons)• Atonement and incarnation
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Metaphores of Salvation
The Bible employs different images to help us grasp Christ’s death
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What's a Metaphor?
“My friend, the swift mule, fleet wild ass of the mountain, panther of the wilderness, after we joined together and went up into the mountain, fought the Bull of Heaven and killed it, and overwhelmed Humbaba, who lived in the Cedar Forest, now what is this sleep that has seized you? “ –The Epic of Gilgamesh.
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What's a Metaphore?
Language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects
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Metaphores
Redemption
Reconciliation
Justification
Expiatory sacrifice
Display of God’s love
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Key Text: Romans 3:25
• “God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood. He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished.” (NIV)
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Key Text: Romans 3:25
• “God offered him, so that by his blood
he should become the means by which people’s sins are forgiven through their faith in him. God did this in order to demonstrate that he is righteous. In the past he was patient and overlooked people’s sins.” (TEV)
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Key Text: Romans 3:25
God presented him
as a sacrifice of atonement,
through faith in his blood.
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Key Text: Romans 3:25
•to demonstrate his justice, •because
He did this
•he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished.
in his forbearanc
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What People Think
• T F Christ’s death was a ransom paid to liberate us from evil powers.• T F Sublime revelation of God’s love that
transforms us.• T F An expiatory sacrifice that removed
the barrier of sin.• T F A reconciling act.• T F A declaration of acquittal.
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Summary
• “The truth is that the death of Christ is all of these.”
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Redemption
• Redemption is delivery from debt through the payment of a ransom.–To whom was the debt owed?–To whom was the ransom paid?
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Redemption
• To whom was the debt owed?• “You used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.” (Rom. 6:17).
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Redemption
• To whom was the debt owed?–The debt is owed to the law of God. That is what was “broken.”
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Redemption
• To whom was the ransom paid?–The ransom was paid to the law
of God.–“The law was the gatekeeper.”
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Redemption
• “[Redemption] simply provided the legal basis for the death of the culprit.”• “[God] satisfied His own moral
demands.”• “He bought back the right of existence
for the human race.”
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Redemption
So God paid a ransom to Himself.• He did it through the sacrifice of
Jesus, a member of the Trinity who owed nothing to the law. • Because He owed nothing, but paid
the ransom anyway, He can credit the redemption to us.
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Reconciliation
• “Reconciliation is the restoration of peaceful relationships between individuals or groups once at enmity.”
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Reconciliation
1. God took the initiative.2. God used a Mediator.3. The object is “us” and the
“world.”
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Reconciliation
A process of two factors:• The cross “removing the
“barrier.”
• 2 Cor. 5: 19 “that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ,”
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Reconciliation
Sin
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Reconciliation
4. A process of two factors:
• The “ministry” of reconciliation• 2 Cor. 5:20 – “We are
therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.”
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Reconciliation
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Justification
• A legal term that refers to the acquittal of someone accused of a crime but who is found innocent in court.
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Justification
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Justification
• Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God. Therefore no one will be declared righteous in his sight by observing the law; rather, through the law we become conscious of sin. But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify. This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
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Justification
• “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”• “The whole world held
accountable to God.”• “Therefore no one will be
declared righteous.”
“Through the law we become
conscious of sin.”
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Justification
• “But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known.” • “This righteousness from God
comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.”
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Justification
• “But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known.”
• “Hence, the solution to the human predicament is the justification that comes by faith to all who believe.”
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Expiatory Sacrifice
• “Expiatory” “Having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation; "expiatory (or propitiatory) sacrifice"
: “The act of making atonement : the means by which atonement is made.”
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Expiatory Sacrifice
• “Expiatory”
“Sacrifice”
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Expiatory Sacrifice
1. The sacrifice was provided by God.2. It was an act of substitution.3. It liberated us from the wrath of
God.4. It provides the legal foundation for
God to save us.
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Expiatory Sacrifice
• “Propitiation [substitution] does not mean that Christ persuaded the Father to love us; it means that Christ’s sacrifice made it possible for God’s love to reach us.”
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Expiatory Sacrifice
•Why is there such a thing as “God’s wrath?”
A debt is owed to the law of God. That is what was
“broken.”
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Expiatory Sacrifice
•Why is there such a thing as “God’s wrath?”
The whole point is that we didn’t fix it – God did!
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Reconciliation
Sin
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Display of God's Love
• “The engine that configured the plan of salvation and put it into effect was divine love, the very essence of God.” • “The cross dispelled, forever, all
doubts concerning the character of God.”
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Metaphores
Redemption
Reconciliation
Justification
Expiatory sacrifice
Display of God’s love