Dave Pogson - Atonement - Class 5

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1. 0:00

   Boy, brother Dave comes forward. He gives us his words. We’ll read post in the scripture and it’ll be taken from Romans chapter 3 from verses 19 through to the end, verse 31.

2. 0:18

   OK, Unfortunately, brothers and sisters, we had to break right at a critical time in our study the last occasion, and that makes it a bit hard for you, OK? And you’ve got to pick up right in the middle of crucial verses. You got to pick up at verse 25, which is the regarded by all the brethren and even scholars out of the truth as the most important statement on the reason for Christ’s death, OK? It’s a bit of a bit of a problem. OK, so just your eyes, brother.

3. 1:02

   Nola obviously marked out the looks there, did the reading there. If you got your pencils, you might need them again, but we’ve got the essential ones already done. Now there are environments that remember there are two methods of righteousness.

4. 1:34

   One method was the Jewish method method, which was called their own righteousness. OK, here we’re dealing with another method called God’s righteousness. OK, so here we have two methods of righteousness. A language is the language of the law. Courts as a judge and there’s people in the witness box, OK, And the word righteous or just Greek court words, OK, Dickey, Asini and so on and so on, OK. And remember, as I think I’ve pointed out before, and this language, we’re in court.

5. 2:18

   In this language we’re in court right up to Chapter 8. You’re in court. The language is the language of the Greek courts, OK, So a judge, as in our day, a judge, he can pronounce a person innocent, OK, because he is innocent, or he may choose to pronounce a person innocent who’s actually guilty. And in our courts it’s called amnesty, but it is actually forgiveness.

6. 2:52

   It’s a legal forgiveness. In other words, the judge may say, Oh, well, this is first offence, he was highly provoked and etcetera, etcetera, and even though he’s guilty, we’re going to let him go as long as he doesn’t turn up in court again. So yeah, but that’s amnesty. Now what we’re dealing with here is in Romans, right, we’re dealing with an amnesty righteousness, a righteousness of forgiveness.

7. 3:23

   It’s not just forgiveness, it’s a righteousness of repentance, forgiveness and divine help. That’s the gospel in Acts chapter 2. What shall we do? Repent the conversion, repentance, right? Be baptized for remission of sins and you’ll get divine help. You’ll get the Holy Spirit or whatever is necessary. You’ll get divine help. So they’re the, they’re the, that’s what’s involved in amnesty, those three things.

8. 4:00

   We’re not only being given forgiveness, that says in Acts, we’re being given repentance. That’s unusual, isn’t it? And you’ll find in the New Testament that forgiveness and repentance are just linked indivisibly. And sometimes you get a verse which you think is going to say, oh, and you get forgiveness of sins. And it doesn’t say that it it says to turn you from dead works to serve the living God. And then the next verse might talk about forgiveness. In other words, one has never considered without the other. If forgiveness is used as a heading that always involves perpendence and divine help, right? And so that at at baptism, when you reach baptism, you initiated into that relationship, we’ve got a relationship of repentance, forgiveness and divine help right you that commences as a covenant relationship of baptism. Then it becomes a daily thing through your death, up to your resurrection, through the judgement seat until you’re moral.

9. 5:13

   Now we got that. It’s very simple. They’re very fundamental. They’re very different to the Jewish idea of God giving you a set of rules, you trusting in yourself to keep that set of rules and earn a pronouncement of righteousness and eternal law. Very, very different. I mean, but both systems required forgiveness. Both systems required belief in God and but their base, their bases were obviously.

10. 5:44

    OK, one’s built on reliance of the flesh to keep a set of rules, and long as your acts of righteousness exceeded your sins, you’re in front. You’re earning eternal, you’re earning a pronouncement of righteousness. But as the other one says, yeah, there’s got to be works and everything, but you can never earn.

11. 6:04

    The gifts of God, you need forgiveness all the time. You, you need to convert to happily. You’ve got to look at yourself and turn around every day and you need to bind help every day. It’s a daily thing. You know today, if you will hear his voice. That’s one of the things that we’re very LAX about.

12. 6:23

    And that is that the method of the truth is a daily thing. You can’t do it on Sunday. You can’t do it three days a week. You can’t do it six days a week. You got to do it seven days a week, OK, Otherwise the system doesn’t work. So that’s the background. All right. See how good you can concentrate. All right.

13. 6:48

    I’ve got right out of my head the fact that I had to cook the tea tonight with was Dory fish and peas and, and, and what else was it? And so I can’t even remember that. And I I cooked. Her under very strict directions however my life’s a little bit in dispose at the moment so I put that right out of my head OK so let’s quickly take you through from verse 19.

14. 7:17

    We’ve got to quickly get to 25. It’s the key one see how good you can concentrate and I’m going to do a little bit of interpreting as I go along. Are you ready Verse 19 Now we know or we perceive that whatsoever things the law of Moses said said to them that are under that law and that every mouth every mouth and what it’s saying is you Jews as well as the Gentiles. No one that the Gentiles were sinners. So the Jews have thought they were pretty good, that every mouth may be stopped and.

15. 7:56

    All the world. You Jews as well as the Gentiles, all the world may become guilty before God. That was the work and purpose of the law of Moses, to make you aware of just how sinful you are. Verse 20. Therefore, by deeds or works of law, right? Law is strict, strict equity, right. You get what you deserve on a principle of law. Therefore, by deeds of law there shall no flesh. It’d be justified in His sight.

16. 8:35

    The phrase No flesh will be pronounced righteous in His sight is taken from Psalm 143, verse 2 in the margin there under X. See, that’s Psalm 143 verse 2, is it? Yep. So shall no flesh be justified in his sights? Quoting from there. OK. Which I think is the Psalm, which says enter not into judgment with us, because if you enter into judges, nobody’s going to be justified. We’re all going to be guilty, OK? So that’s his conclusion, verse 20 about the law for by the law. For by law is the epicnosis, the full experience of sin, and Paul develops that in Chapter 7.

17. 9:24

    I’d not know I’m sin, but by the law I’d not known lust, except the Lord said thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, thy neighbour’s, etcetera. What it is, it’s a divine set of values, OK, applied to people who are naturally. Sinners all right. And the law. Is designed to make them aware of just how natural a Sinner we are, because our natural sinning actually limits our perception of our sin. It blinds us all to some degree.

18. 10:03

    You may sin a major sin, and you may convert it from it, and you may be spiritually redeveloped and rehabilitated and it always leaves a scar. And even though you’re functional, it is to some extent that leaves a limitation. Look at that scar. Look at the size of this scar. Look at that. It’s a beauty.

19. 10:34

    You know, I had a fight with a nine inch angle grinder. It won, OK, It cut that, cut that across that hand, fell, cut, broke 2 fingers there and then it hit the floor, broke into two bits and then bounced off the floor. I can remember none of this, can’t remember a thing about it.

20. 10:55

    All I can remember is I was in trouble, OK? Bounced off the floor, jumped up and screwed the other half of the 9 inch angle grinder disc inside my leg so he couldn’t even see it was there. And the ambulance men didn’t even know what was wrong, you know, that had disappeared inside the leg, missed the main artery, slipped between the two bones. Miraculously, Alan’s enjoying every bit of this and, and you know, they refused to saw it all up because and because it was an old army surgeon.

21. 11:40

    He said, oh, we close the legs up and in the end they get that infected, we have to take the Lego. And he wouldn’t do that. He let it drain for a fortnight or something. Then they took skin off here and grafted it. Hence this great big scar. Now the point is, look, I don’t even limp, do I?

22. 12:00

    You wouldn’t know I’d had a major problem in my leg. But yeah, you should see me on a roof, though. On a roof. I’m hopeless. My wife stands down the bottom of the ladder screaming at me because it’s just left limitations. You get my point. And even though you’re sin, and even though you’re forgiven, you know, I’m talking about major sins, OK? It leaves a scar.

23. 12:29

    OK. And that limits our perception of sin. And sometimes when you’re confronted with an ecclesial problem, that’s a major moral problem. It may even distort your decision about what should be done. So what I’m putting to you we. All tend to be blinded to some extent by sin. We missed those pages. That was an earlier session. OK, but the Law of Moses gave you the knowledge out of experience.

24. 12:58

    You just couldn’t maintain divine values. You inevitably felt OK. Therefore the idea of earning salvation is ridiculous. Not even Christ. It was perfect. Even though it was worthy of what he got. He never claimed to have heard us. OK, he got it because of a perfect faith producing a perfect obedience, because of the perfect dependence upon God, and he glorified God for what he was, not himself who has had absolutely no pride in it.

25. 13:31

    Whereas the Jewish method, their whole religion, was based on the pride of life, the pride of self achievement, which we do. Every day at work, you’ve got to have a bit of self-confidence, you know, you’ve got to use that in natural things, OK? But even in the world, like, if you start thinking you’re pretty good, everyone calls you a big head and and all that and that you know, and pride gets there. But when it comes to eternal things, you know the so that’s the flesh, the lust they are.

26. 14:00

    We all think it’s when we’re young people, that’s the flesh is the big problem. All right. But the real big problem is. Really, the pride of life, it’s so deep in your psyche and so hard to perceive. It’s a real problem, you know? It’s a real big problem.

27. 14:20

    I reckon confession is good for the soul. I can remember half of my life ago when I was around 35 or something, I, I, I spoke down at Glenlock Camp. You’ve heard of that camp down on the Murray River, OK. And I was doing Galatians, OK. And the, yeah, 700 or 1000 people there. And I was giving this stuff on Galatians, OK? And first up, first up, I’d dress up as the Jedi’s and put their argument.

28. 14:51

    Then I’d get up and explain it from Galatians what the answers were, you know? But you know, they were going all right. And people thought it was traffic, but I wasn’t really happy with it. I just didn’t feel I was communicating what I wanted to communicate, OK? And and that’s genuine. I wanted to communicate better. I wanted this message to get across OK and anyway it came Sunday morning of all time Sunday morning memorial. Imagine this Sunday memorial meeting. OK and I was dealing with Paul’s sickness. OK, how because of his sickness he he preached to the Gentiles at the first he preached as a sick man. And I was thumping this beautiful stuff on how God’s strength made perfect in weakness. Talk about that was the theme.

29. 15:39

    God’s strength made perfect in weakness. And how, how Paul, when he was, when he was under tremendous stress, he had this inherent problem, a thorn in the flesh, a problem that under stress, he got very, very ill. Obviously I’ll all right. Really obviously I’ll. And he said the Galatians, it was possible you’d have given me your own eye. And he said it.

30. 16:06

    He said it was your trial in my flesh. You know, the the the Jedi would say you call him a an apostle, you call him somebody and look at him. Look what God’s doing to him. He’s obviously dead on his feet and he looked like he was cursed of God. Get the idea. So this was terrific exhortation and and. And I was really getting across and I was really happy about it. And then, you know, and then I got the last main phrase, the exhortation, you know, just before they, they’re giving the emblems and.

31. 16:40

    And I looked around the crowd of, you know, 700,000, whatever they are down there and, and, and, and this scene only lasted A millisecond. I recognized it straight away, but it happened. I looked around the comic crowd that had gone across. Fantastic. That’s the way I wished every session had gone across. And you know what I’ve said in my mind?

32. 17:01

    Copped that, copped that in other words, wasn’t that terrific. And I I was standing there. And I thought went through my head and I felt that wretched. I felt, I recognized it immediately. What was it? The pride of life. I’d started off with the right motives because it went so well. I finished up with the wrong. Now that’s how deceitful sin is.

33. 17:32

    So that’s what we’re dealing with. So the law amplified that sin. Verse 21. But now God’s method of righteousness apart from law has been revealed, manifested. I was witnessed by the Old Testament law and the prophets. It’s even a a divine method of righteousness which is conditional upon you having faith in what Jesus Christ was all about.

34. 18:02

    And it’s this pronouncement by the judge that comes upon upon all or upon all them, that faith, the people that really believe what Jesus work was all about to the point where they are moved to repentance, to the point where they get baptized, to the point where they have turned their direction of life and they’re going to commit themselves to letting God help them in that new direction of life.

35. 18:32

    That’s what faith is. That’s what faith is. Faith is belief to the point. Where it turns you around. OK, it’s not just believing. I believe two and two and four doesn’t do much for me except when I get my change at the shop. It’s got no moral effect. OK, verse 23 he says the reason why we’ve got to have this method and why it can’t be an earning method is because all of sinned 2 things we’ve sinned. We’ve done what God’s law says you shouldn’t do. They should not cover the neighbour’s wife, the neighborhood right, and we’ve failed to manifest God’s holy characteristics.

36. 19:17

    We’ve all come short of glory, God. So we’re sinned in the positive areas of God manifestation and we’ve sinned in the areas of the manifestation of the flesh. OK, Therefore we’re fine and there’s no way we can never go before the judge and. Claim a right to be proclaimed righteous. It’s just ridiculous.

37. 19:40

    OK, so he says. Well then. What are we going to believe about Jesus Christ? What did he do? Verse 24? We’re being pronounced righteous freely. You never earned it. It’s by God’s grace, unmerited favour, and it’s through the redemption that is the saving method. That is in Christ Jesus.

38. 20:10

    Jesus Christ went through the method himself perfectly. Now this is key, key concept. He went through the method perfectly. Perfect faith, perfect trust, perfect to be, perfect death, perfect resurrection, perfect judgement, perfect immortality. So much so is exhorted above even the ancients. So what you have is a divine manifestation of the perfect method of salvation.

39. 20:41

    He was pronounced righteous. OK, we act because he was righteous, but it was a righteousness that came from faith. His reliance on God it. Wasn’t a self righteousness, it wasn’t of my own self. I can do nothing. It was a derived righteousness. OK. Therefore it was a faith righteousness. Therefore, though He was so wonderful a person, the glory is to His Father and not to Himself. OK, so it’s a faith righteousness. And here we have the method set forth in a perfect way, OK. And really, that’s what the great sacrifice of God is. What is a sacrifice It is this perfect example of a man obtaining redemption from a human, mortal, sin prone, temptable condition up to.

40. 21:45

    Through death and then a change to immortality. So he’s called the first fruits. He’s the first one of that that would obtain through that method. Eternal law have the idea. OK, so it says. And The thing is that God gave him this redemption and he says, OK, we’re a family and I’m going to give.

41. 22:12

    You brothers and sisters. And I’m going to let you share your redemption and your achievements with them. Oh yeah, it’ll involve forgiveness, but they’ve got to at least. Follow the direction you went and that’s it. In simple terms, that’s the whole doctrine of the atonement. If we will endeavour to follow Him and use the same methods within the limits to our capacity and using the same methods for Christ’s sake, because He did it perfectly and because we’re His family, His brethren, sons of God by adoption, behold on the children that is God’s children that have given me, God lets us.

42. 22:57

    God lets him share. His redemption with us, and that was in our readings. That was in our readings in John John 5. As the Father hath life in himself, so if they’d given the Son to have life in himself. He’s committed all judgment of the Son because he’s a son of man. He’s one of man and man had dishonored God, and this man and honored men attain unto the salvation that I intended for the human race and so on.

43. 23:31

    OK, so let’s get on with verse 25, whom our concentrate very hard whom God has set forth. We won’t change that it could be changed, but that’s OK means for ordained. Some translated it publicly shown, but as the margin says, it does actually mean ordained beforehand. God ordained well beforehand was in the predetermined counsel of God that he would get Jesus Christ and make him what he says He makes him here. So God sets him forth to be a propitiation in his blood, and God has set forth to be a propitiation in his. Blood and you’re going to believe it seems to be the flow of thought, OK.

44. 24:31

    And then the revised version, they changed these commas. They put a comma there. And there, instead of it being just faith in his blood, the propitiation that was set forth is the propitiation in his blood.

45. 24:51

    In his death, the blood is death, OK? It’s not literal blood. Literal blood is only the Law of Moses type of giving up life. When it says blood, it simply means his voluntary death. That’s all it means, his voluntary death. He’s a man who voluntarily die. That’s what blood means, OK? Even though the law of Moses, the blood is put for the Life, OK.

46. 25:22

    In the when you come to the New Testament, they use the Old Testament language as a shorthand. And when they use blood, they mean his death, his voluntary death. That’s all it means. Let’s keep it simple. OK, So what was he doing? It says he’s been a propitiatory in the last occasion someone said a propitiation is a mercy seat.

47. 25:47

    Remember someone said that. And that the word only occurs once more, and that’s in Hebrews and it’s translated mercy seat. OK, but it does occur more than once. It occurs quite a few times, but not in that exact form. That’s sometimes. It occurs in the First of John chapters. First of John. Chapter 2. It occurs there, Christ to us, our propitiation for our sins. It’s a slightly different variation of the word, but it’s the same basic word.

48. 26:20

    OK. And and and. Mercy seats. OK, right. But it’s actually in the Greek it means the place of favour. In the Hebrew it was Caporet and it means the place of covering. OK. It’s the place where the high priest went to sprinkle the blood once a year in the Day of Atonement and obtained forgiveness of sins.

49. 26:50

    It’s the place of favour for forgiveness, for acceptance. It’s the place. So what is the real place? Is that the mercy said in the Tabernacle? Now? That’s not the real place. The real place is Jesus Christ. Death here is the. Place right there, God says. I’ll meet you there. I’ll meet you for the purposes of covering, I’ll meet you for the persons of favour. Purposes of favour.

50. 27:22

    I will meet you nowhere else. There’s none other name given under heaven whereby men might be saved. God says I’ll only meet you at Jesus Christ and him crucified.

51. 27:38

    OK. Why? Why only there and why at his blood? OK, why? Why? Has anyone got any problem with that on you anyway? So far? Let’s go into why through faith in his blood. The next phrase is the great phrase to declare His righteousness. Actually, if you got your pencils in the Greek, it actually is. To declare the righteousness of him. It’s a the righteousness.

52. 28:15

    It’s not a righteousness. Boy, I’ve got ahead of it, haven’t I? Let’s explain this chart before we deal with that. Declare God’s righteousness. So here’s a man, He has faith. He looks at this. And he believes in it so much so that it turns him around. What does what does he believe in?

53. 28:41

    He believes in the whole work and ministry of Jesus Christ. It’s called here the blood because this is the main point of the whole process, but it involves the lot involve Jesus Christ birth preparation. Here’s Christ getting baptized. Here’s his ministry all the life overcoming sin, exposing sin, manifesting God. OK, and it all comes to a final moment of triumph over temptation.

54. 29:14

    The moral victory, the physical victory over death, comes here when he gets raised and changed. Immortality. That’s the physical victory, but that’s the easy bit. This is the hard bit, and that’s why so much stress is placed upon it. It was. Here, Here was a moral victory. Here was the victory of a man who’d taken on board the divine mind, and that had proved more powerful than the mind of the flesh.

55. 29:41

    The first Adam and God created had failed to do it. He was the second Son, Son of God, and he did it. And that honored God, and it took away the big question mark about the efficacy of the divine Word in the life of people. It showed that given a man the capacity to take it fully on board, it was all powerful, OK. It was like, I mean, it’s a prodigious thing that a man should live a completely sinless life. It’s absolutely prodigious in this nature. Tempted in all points like we are all right. And he didn’t have scars like this in his head, OK? He can perceive every sin, every moment. Of pride of life.

56. 30:26

    All right, every little thing that we don’t even know are sins yet He would recognize and suppress. He was taught directly by God. All right, He was educated by. God. He was conceived by God to give him the capacity to do it. And then God directly educated him. He opened his ear morning by morning and gave him the tongue of the learn.

57. 30:48

    That’s opened my ear. My body is there. Prepared in all those places, Psalm 119 is the. It’s all about the Word of God, the Word of God, and that’s the Spirit of Christ. Psalm 19 and all the other psalms as well. OK, so it it vindicated the power of the divine. Mind, you can’t go higher.

58. 31:06

    Than the divine mind, it vindicated that and showed that it is more powerful than the great power of carnal thinking. OK. That’s fundamental, the atonement. God gets honoured first. Oh, we’re looking for salvation and forgiveness, but what happens first is God’s got to be on OK, That’s fundamentally you’ve got to God’s, you’ve got to love.

59. 31:32

    Him first, then your neighbor as yourself, God first. You’re totally dependent on him for everything. Shouldn’t it be so? Shouldn’t it be so so when it says his blood? It’s taking the pivotal point of the whole thing to represent the whole process that there is sort of taken as a heading for the whole process.

60. 31:55

    His development, his baptism, his ministry, his death, his resurrection, his elevation to God, to sit on the right hand of God. If you can believe that to the point believe all that to the point where it turns you round and you’re prepared to identify with it in baptism and start taking on board the help that God gives us and and show the same spirit of dependence ABBA father.

61. 32:25

    In other words, help if you can take that on board God says amnesty. I forgive and I accept your repentance. And mate, how well? Did you repent? You know, I got baptized when I was 16 1/2. Yeah, I repented and I changed direction. And I wonder how well I’ve been. I’ve been changing it every day ever since.

62. 32:56

    In other words, there’s a million since. I didn’t even know her since then. But I changed the general direction of life. OK, I I didn’t want to pursue the life of sin. I didn’t want to race after the world and everything that’s got me more. I wanted to try and follow God’s ways, but what an imperfect, what a very imperfect repentance. So even even to.

63. 33:24

    Say you were forgot to say I accept your. Repentance. Even that’s forgiveness. Even that’s forgiveness, OK? So that’s a wonderful act of divine grace. So we. Come on to the next. Phrase. So what was God Christ doing here? The next phrase in the verse is he was declaring his righteousness. That is the righteousness of God. He was actually declaring that God was personally righteous. He’s not talking about the method of righteousness. He’s saying God when he died there he was saying God is righteous.

64. 34:12

    Earlier in chapter 3 in the early verses it said says let God be true and every man a liar, let him be righteous right. Then it quotes from the Psalm with David, with the sin of Bathsheba, and he and it says. And it says that there might just be righteous fight in thy sayings, and they might overcome when they are judged.

65. 34:34

    David knew, and that Psalm 51, that Psalm of repentance. So the first thing he had to do was acknowledge that God was right and his judgement. He knew he should have been put to death. And he acknowledged that God was righteous and against thee only have I sinned and done this great evil in my sight. He had to acknowledge that God’s judgments on sin are correct. And what he should have been doing, he wasn’t doing on that occasion he wasn’t doing OK.

66. 35:01

    So there has to be a vindication that God’s position is correct and yours is not. I mean, another man could have said, Oh yeah, I got mixed up with Bathsheba, but I’ve been through a lot, saw that, been chasing me for donkeys years. And now the whole I’ve got the whole Kingdom and the pressure, it just got the better of me. And in the end I went over the edge and I was a nervous breakdown.

67. 35:24

    And then that innovative state, I saw this woman and so on and so. They could have put all these excuses OK. That’s not out. It’s OK. God wants confession. God wants you to. Face up to the facts. God wants confession. I’ll keep quoting to you Proverbs 28, verse 13 or 14. He that confesses and forsakeeth his sin shall find mercy with God.

68. 35:56

    He that confesses and forsakeeth his sin shall find mercy with God. But we’ve got a problem. And this is key to the atonement. You can’t fully confess your sin, nor can you fully confess God’s righteousness. There’s a lot of righteous characteristics about God that you haven’t even learned about yet, in all their subtleties. There’s a lot of sins that you haven’t woken up to yet. Are sins, they may be just the way you react to a conversation each time or a given situation, which by habit you’d think’s OK. And that’s right, you haven’t even learned that. That’s really a quite selfish and unscriptural position. You just haven’t learned it.

69. 36:45

    That’s probably true to me anyway. How much more so when you’re young, 16 1/2? How much you know? How well could I? Confess how righteous God was and how sinful I was. I did it, but to a limited degree. To a limited degree, there’s only one man who could fully. Confess all sin and the enormity of it, and full manifestation and appreciation and recognition and copying of God’s values and God’s conduct. There’s only one man.

70. 37:27

    That could completely do that. And who did do it? And that’s what it’s saying here. He came to declare and the key word and this is absolutely essential for you. So this word declare means more than declared involves the idea declare and the views declare because that’s how it occurs a lot in the Old Testament.

71. 37:55

    OK, but. It’s a word. It’s not the usual word for declare, OK, And this is a key idea. It’s in dark SIS, whereas declare is a completely different Greek word and it means to show forth that says here in the Greek interlinear to show forth. A lot of translations translated demonstrate it comes the most to To study it in your concordances, you’ve got to look up the word show because the main word is it’s a. The basic word is actually DEI all. Right, but there’s all these words with different startings. This one’s N indexes OK, others at our, and then there’s. Digna And then it goes on and on, All these different words, but they all come from this basic idea of putting something on exhibition to be seen.

72. 39:10

    And in the blood of Christ, Uncle Ron, doesn’t he always talk about an exhibition of the righteousness of God? He loves Brother Roberts loves this word exhibit. You wonder where he got it from? That’s where he got it from. And says, Brother Carter, they use this word exhibit or show or knowledge dinner, right? They get it.

73. 39:29

    They’ve looked all this up. They know they’re Greek. They know they’re Hebrew, OK. And they just, they don’t explain where they got it from, but they say he exhibited the righteousness of God. OK. So basically it comes from the idea of putting something on exhibit, therefore putting it on show. I know. And.

74. 39:53

    It’s very common in the word show in the Bob which occurs a lot of times and most of the words where the word show SHEW or SHOW which is the old. Spelling comes from this idea of putting something on exhibit. I don’t know, you know, coming from Keener Barabrand. We used to go to what we call that quip. It was a show.

75. 40:16

    You went along there and what do you? Expect to see you expect to see the latest harvesters, the tractors and all the different cattle. When you were hungry, you would, you’d go to get a steak sandwich and you either would gather the Murray Grace steak sandwich or the, or the, or the Hereford steak sandwich.

76. 40:34

    They’d always have a lovely Hereford there and ideal and, and, and they would serve you these steak sandwiches. And I mean, you put that much jolly sauce on it. You couldn’t tell the difference in the steaks anyway, but. The thing is, when you went there, everything was on show. OK, Everything there was there to show.

77. 40:55

    That’s the idea of the word. And you’d come up to a pump and they’d have a cut in half or half. It’d be plastic. So you can see actually how it worked. They were showing, they were demonstrating, OK, and that’s. The idea of the word. So Jesus Christ came to demonstrate that the righteousness of God’s personal righteousness how right his judgments are, particularly how righteous his judgments are against sin, and how gracious His sentence is.

78. 41:29

    On on on. Those he wants to show mercy on chapter 6 verse the last verse in chapter 6, 6 verse 23 for the wages of sin is death. If you serve your passions by transgressing God’s law that brings you to a state where you deserve death. But then there’s the other side of God’s goodness and mercy. But the gift, no, earning the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

79. 42:19

    Now you could say, declared the righteousness of God, and you could say, well, of course it was the word made. Flesh. You know, John, chapter 14 was who said show us the Father. Show us the father suffices. Who said that Brother pooch. Yeah, His name? Philip. You see, that’s how he remembered. See that instant response?

80. 42:47

    Philip said Show us the father. And he says, oh, I’ve been so long with you, and you say, so when you see me, you see the fire he manifested. He manifested the complete character of God and God’s attitudes towards sin. Look how. He went around exposing the hypocrisy, the scribes and Pharisees. Look how he went around exposing the hypocrisy of certain cities.

81. 43:12

    He absolutely stripped and took off. All right, he took off. Any covering that was there, they typically expose sin all the time, and he recommended all the time. The divine attitudes of favour and self-control and loving kindness and compassion is always having compassion. I mean, sure, it was a perfect manifestation of the full righteousness of God.

82. 43:37

    However, here there’s got to be emphasis on certain aspects of that righteousness because we’re dealing with sin, we’re dealing with a failure to manifest God, and you’re dealing with pursuing self indulgence despite what the law of God says. Therefore, you’ve got to look at the whole righteousness of God that Christ manifested and see particularly the aspect that would apply in this situation. OK.

83. 44:13

    And that’s what we’ve got to look at. And that’s what we’ve got to realize what’s going on, God says in Isaiah 45. We’ve got. It here we’ll come to it in a later chart, that he is a just God and a saviour. Now to be just, he should kill us and we should stay dead. Therefore, how can He save us?

84. 44:42

    OK. That’s the brother Carter. Cause the nerve of the atonement. It’s the problem. God is a judge and they’ll only do what’s right. All right. Shall not the God of all the earth do right? OK. Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? So that’s the essential problem. How does God get around? Not how does he get around the fact that he’s already condemned man to death, right?

85. 45:11

    By inheritance and by personal contact. We’re doubly condemned, OK, we’re born sin prone and and then we exacerbate that with their own transgressions. We all repeat Adam, and then we live a life of. Habits and everything that builds into us, I mean.

86. 45:30

    To be true. He’d have to abdicate his sovereignty not to condemn us today. OK, How does he get around that, uphold that and still save you? How can he forgive you rightly, if you should? Die, haven’t. How can he do it? OK, well the answer is, is this word here by confession?

87. 45:54

    God will accept confession. He that confesseth and for the sake of his sin will find mercy with God if a person acknowledges his position. Not acknowledges that he’s worthy of death, acknowledges this is wretched state, acknowledges that he needs rehabilitation, etcetera, etcetera. God says that’s right for him to forgive in that. Situation, that’s the basic concept, but the problem is we can’t fully confess.

88. 46:29

    Now this is this is absolutely fundamental, the atonement. I mean, if all God wants is confession, well, let’s confess we don’t. Need Jesus Christ we need this Christ because we can’t fully confess and he wants us to confess, but at the. Same time, acknowledge that our confession is incomplete. That’s fundamentally attainment to acknowledge that our confession is incomplete.

89. 47:00

    A confession we make by accepting that God will not accept us. Unless we align ourself with the only one that fully confessed human sin and divine homings. That’s why you know. He’ll forgive you for Christ’s sake. That’s why even all the good works you do. Just being here tonight is a fulfilment of God’s will. OK, but I’m sorry.

90. 47:36

    Your performance tonight, it’s very imperfect. So is mine, OK? And it will only be acceptable to God if you make the offering of being here tonight through Christ Jesus. If only you’ve got to say, well, I’ve been here tonight and I’ve given out 6000. If it’s not done that much. No, they are sisters, Lorna.

91. 47:56

    I don’t know. I’ve been studied so much and marked up Romans and right, and they’re all the right things. They’re the right direction, but you will find that all our good works are imperfect, and certainly all our sins are far from being right, therefore. God will only accept anything we do, good or bad, or he doesn’t. He’ll forgive the bad, and he’ll accept the good things we do long as we recognize.

92. 48:28

    That we are limited, and that’s inherent in the word. Faith. And hearing in the word faith amongst other things, but they for the gospel and everything that goes with it is an admission that we can never be worthy like the sun was. That’s only because we get a family relationship with him that God graciously let’s him share his eternal life with us. That’s why we pray through Jesus Christ. God doesn’t need a media.

93. 49:01

    He can hear what you say, he can understand you completely. He doesn’t need that and we can talk to God directly. God said no. Well, you can’t talk to me directly. You can only talk to me through the one who fully understands the position, understands you, understands me and he’ll accept. I’ll accept prayers through him because you are acknowledging that even your most earnest.

94. 49:26

    Prayer is imperfect. That’s the difference between Judaism, which says I earn it, I thank thee God that I’m not like this Sinner. I tired and I do this, I do that, I do this self righteousness. It’s all just the pride of life, OK? It’s just the wrong methods built on wrong ideas. So when he declared the righteousness of God, he was actually confession, confessing the human condition.

95. 49:55

    He was an expert. And he was the only one that could really confess just how much the wages of sinners death is, and just how much the gift of God is eternal life. He was the only one that could confess that we can only do it to a limited degree. That’s the key of the tournament. We can only do it to a limited degree. Our life is one of being turned and following. Christ.

96. 50:26

    Well, as Paul says, befollows of me as I am it’s direction. There’s one thing I do forgetting those things that behind I, I I set toward the high. Mark of A. Calling in Christ. Jesus, it’s all their job just to stay in the right. Direction, let alone give a perfect service. That’s why everything has to be done through Jesus Christ, and that’ll stand with you each day. Right through your life.

97. 50:52

    It’ll stand with you when you’re dying. You’ll die recognizing that you should die, but your recognition of your death, your your appreciation of it’s not that great. So you die with Christ quite literally in death, you’re resurrected. You pass through the judgment seat with. Christ, with those same recognitions, OK, same acknowledgements, there’s no way you’d be accepted as a judgment seat. Even though you’d be judged according to your works, you’ll be judged according whether you genuinely attempted all right to maintain the right direction.

98. 51:25

    You won’t be judged because you you reckon your, your, your acts of righteousness exceeded your sins or whatever. There’s no way it’ll be like that. You’re going to need Christ right up to the moment of immortality, otherwise you’ll never make it.

99. 51:41

    So here’s the confession. The great confessor Jesus Christ was talks about his confession in Timothy Timothy 6 verse 23. Let’s look at that Timothy 623. What is it first? No, that’s Romans. That’s not the one I want Romans 623 you just quoted it’s not there. We’ve come to it on a later chart.

100. 52:07

     We won’t press it here. We’ll. Press on, I’ll bog down so. But Jesus was baptized. He got baptized into the baptism of John, and it was a baptism of confession. Remember, they came to him as a baptism of confessing their sins. OK, Now you just got to think about that. If you’d been, if you’re 55 years old, you went down the water and you had to confess your sins, you’d be standing there for two years reciting them all.

101. 52:44

     OK, so you didn’t actually do that. You may have confessed some major besetting sin. You would confess you were a Sinner. What would you actually and how would you confess it? You’d confess it by accepting the teaching of John. And the teaching of John is quite laid out for us right in the early chapters of Mark and particularly Isaiah 40, which.

102. 53:08

     We’re going to look at in detail in later situations. And his gospel was All flesh is grass, and the goodliness thereof is the flower of the field. I can look good for a while, but then the Spirit blows upon it and it fades. And it’s finished.

103. 53:33

     Man is mortal, rightly so. He’s essentially a weak being. Men don’t believe that. Men believe they’re immortal. They think there’s a lot of good in them. That’s what they believe. Even the humanists that don’t believe in God, they think there’s a lot of good in men, OK? And and they just don’t accept that. And, and it’s one of the biggest humiliating things to accept that you are holy and rightly immortal of being and apart from God, you’re absolutely of no more value than the kangaroo in the paddock.

104. 54:09

     What? Makes you valuable, is what? Because you’ve taken on board what’s divine. Paul says we have this treasure in an earthen vessel, which is the same as saying all flesh is grass. We have this treasure, the truth, in an earthen vessel that’s come forth, that shine forth from the face of Jesus Christ. In our hearts that the.

105. 54:31

     Excellency of the power may be of. God. And not of ourselves. OK, so. John the Baptist taught man is mortal and this is anti Judah. Yesterday he got stuck into the Jews. What are you coming for here? You said this is you generation of Vipers who’s warned you in the judgement to come. God’s able to raise up these stones, children to Abraham. You’re saying you’ve got Abraham to your father. You’re relying.

106. 55:02

     On. On on race, racist attitudes, the superiority of the Jewish people. You’re relying on self and your achievements to keep it a set of rules to earn eternal life. What are you doing? Coming out here, I’m teaching the exact opposite. You fellas believe in heaven, you believe in hell, you believe in immortal soul. They believe all those things.

107. 55:24

     They are the Catholic Church of their day, OK? They believed in all those things and the devil being PLZ Bob instead of it being our own human nation and temptability. They believe all those areas that what are you coming out of here for? I teach the very opposite about human nature to you guys and I teach the word of God endures forever. I teach it’s not enough to have a set of rules outside you. You’re going to take on board the divine mind. That’s the only way to eternal life. So when people came to be confess their sins, they are confessing.

108. 56:00

     Their total and rightful mortality. And any hope of life lies in taking on board the. Word of God all. Right, that’s created many places in the New Testament, those words. And the words applied to the gospel and so on. OK, many places it’s quoted so. Don’t forget the clear means to demonstrate, to show, and many translators actually translated demonstrate He came to demonstrate and how wonderfully He demonstrated and exposed how sinful man is and how right God’s judgement upon sin is. The longer you stand there and look at Christ crucified, the more you’ll understand that.

109. 56:54

     OK, we could 5:00 to 9:00. How many weeks left in a year? And that the recognition that great confession becomes a basis for the remission of sins, your faith in it. Faith in his butt. When you see that man give that perfect confession about human nature and about God manifestation, when you can see that and up to the point where you say how terrible it is, you know you you’re really part of the crowd that has actually crucified the glory of God you’ve. Crucified the sun, that’s what you sins do. That’s how terrible it is.

110. 57:48

     And, and, and he was numbered with the transgressions we actually imposed upon him, all the pain and the suffering that’s really due to us. He’s not a substitute, but he represents that way our true position. And yet at the same time, he’s showing how our sins dishonor God and how God suffers. He suffers as if when we did the wrong thing, as if a crown of thorns was on his head and if he had been beaten with stripes and if he’s been nailed a tree emotionally on that in all their afflictions I was afflicted.

111. 58:19

     Gods have got a feeling and he he gets just like parents do when their kids play up in a terrible way. They feel that. Embarrassed and that in shame and dishonored, you know, it’s that in a small way is an indication how sensitive righteous being like God feels when it’s creation. Treat him like that so.

112. 58:40

     Talk about exposing how simple we are. No matter how you look at that, OK. And then when you look inside the mind of that, that bleeding man, and you see the mentality of someone that was still being obedient right under death, still overcoming every temptation to retaliate, still had focused on the fact that he was. Confessing the human condition to lay a basis for our forgiveness and conversion.

113. 59:06

     You wonder at the great grace of God and you wonder at that sort of quality, and if that can’t turn you around to change the direction of life and you’re not an honest heart and you’re not going to make it, you’re just not good soil.

114. 59:26

     That’s why it becomes a basis for the. Remission of sins, right? It’s the God’s condition for his grace and mercy. So here’s God, he’s got remission or forgiveness. It’s conditional. It’s conditional on Christ declaring his righteousness. He’s raised from the dead. And that and our belief in his declaring God’s righteousness, which was vindicated by his resurrection, if we believe that God’s forgiveness reaches the believer. OK.

115. 1:00:09

     Oh, we’ve finished the section. That’s the last week we’re finished. Thank you very much. That’s the last session coming up, OK, where we’ll deal with this all flesh is grass and the baptism of Christ and all those sort of things. Thank you very much.