Class 2 from this series was used in GCT Episode 385.
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If I go too fast or if I say it
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It’s it’s great the way it all
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works.
All right, so.
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The game plan right now is to
have a look at really finish up
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part of the first class, and
then we’ll look at what God did
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with his Son and redeeming his
own son, Jesus Christ.
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So we finished off that first
class going back to a lot of the
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Sunday school material that
probably many of you have looked
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at for many years and and read.
But it’s good to review those
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passages to see the whole
picture of what God has done and
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really and appreciate the love
of God.
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So you end up then with the fact
that what God considers is he
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looks at sin over all, not just
the personal sins that we
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commit, but when the Bible
refers to sin, that we are no
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longer slaves of sin.
Paul’s treating sin as though
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it’s like a king, it’s like a
master that you can serve, and
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he’s looking at sin and it’s
whole process.
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So what God did then is that
when nobody else could save, God
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sent forth his Son and sent him
to save all of us.
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So when Paul is, as he points
out in Romans 1 and Romans 2,
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Paul lays out a wonderful case
of the fact that no Jew could
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save themselves, no Gentile
could save themselves, that all
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the earth was held guilty before
God.
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And so he points out in verse 9,
what then?
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Are we better than they?
We Jews he’s talking about, are
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we better than them?
No, not at all.
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For we have previously charged
that both Jews and Greeks, they
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are all under sin, all of us are
under this.
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And, and he sees this sin as the
all-encompassing, the root and
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the ’cause as it is written.
And he goes back and shows them
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from their Old Testament
Scriptures.
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This is what the Bible had said
all along.
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There is none righteous, no, not
one.
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There is none who understands.
There is none who seeks after
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God.
They have all turned aside.
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They have all together become
unprofitable.
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There is none who does good, no,
not one.
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And So what God did, brethren
and sisters, in His love, His
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compassion, His kindness, His
mercy, when he realized that
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nobody would ever be able to
rise up to be the Redeemer, He
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sent forth his Son.
And that’s what our God did.
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He intervened in the problem and
realized that we needed help or
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as Isaiah 59 points out, when
dealing with all of our
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transgressions and and and the
whole chapter is showing how our
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natural tendency is to get all
hung up in ritualism and what
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real, you know, real giving our
life to God is really all about.
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But he talks about our
transgressions in verse 12 are
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multiplied before you and our
sins testify against us.
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Our transgressions are with us
and As for our iniquities, we
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know them, but he ends up that
section there in verse 16 when
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he saw that there was no man and
wondered that there was no
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intercessor.
Therefore his own arm brought
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salvation for him and his own,
his own righteousness, it
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sustained him.
And so that’s what God did.
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That’s what our loving heavenly
Father did.
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When there was none who could
save us.
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He sent forth his Son and he
sent his son than to deal with
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as Paul says, he condemned sin,
the cause and the effect, the
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root and the personal
transgressions.
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He condemned them in the flesh
of Jesus Christ and what God has
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done then, brothers and sisters
with that act is provided us
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with the moral power to conquer
sin.
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This is why the cross Paul would
say that you know, I decided to
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know nothing among you but Jesus
Christ and him crucified or what
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he would say is is the power of
the cross.
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This is the power that this
event has on our life.
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So what God?
Did then is he decided all
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right, we need help?
None of these people are going
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to be able to save themselves.
6000 years the angels had worked
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with men weren’t able to provide
a Savior, and so God sent forth
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His Son.
And in John 1 the Word was sent
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forth and the Word became flesh
in verse 14, and it dwelt among
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us.
We beheld His glory.
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The glory is the only begotten
of the Father, full of grace and
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truth, because Jesus came then,
having come from his Father, and
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now this bias to sin is now
being counteracted by a bias to
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love a Father.
And God sent forth his Son and
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the Word was made flesh.
Because now we have one, one of
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our race who has the potential
to actually defeat the devil, to
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defeat all of sin.
The nature itself that that that
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causes them and the personal
transgressions.
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Or as Hebrews 2 puts it, when
Paul’s showing how it was so
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essential that Jesus Christ come
in our nature, that he be one of
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us who had like the devil in him
like we do.
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In chapter 1 of Hebrews he shows
how the angels couldn’t save
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you.
As great as they were, they
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could not save you because they
don’t have this.
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They don’t share this nature
with us, but Jesus Christ did.
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And inasmuch as the children
have partaken of flesh and
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blood, He himself likewise
shared in the same that through
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death He might destroy him who
had the power of death.
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And when he uses that phrase
that through death, he’s looking
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at the whole process of the
death of Christ.
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He’s looking at what Peter would
say, that when he was reviled,
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he didn’t revile in return.
When he was threatened, he
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didn’t suffer, but he took the
nature that we have, this nature
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that’s so biased to sin, and he
took it up to the cross, nailed
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it to the tree, and God
condemned sin and the body of
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his Son.
God won the victory that day,
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and Jesus Christ cooperated with
it.
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They destroyed the devil that
was in him and because he did
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that, he is now able to release
those who through fear of death
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were all their lifetimes subject
to bondage.
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That’s why in the Bible it’s
presented so much that he did it
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for us.
He did it for his brethren, for
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his family.
He knew it was the only way to
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redeem us was that one of the
race had to take the devil to
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the tree and nail it to the tree
and, and declare the Father
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right for all the things that he
had done.
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And because he’s done that now
he has released us from the
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power of sin and God can
resurrect us from the dead and
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grant immortality to all those
who are in Christ Jesus, who are
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really in Christ Jesus.
And again, not legally, but they
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they lead a life, a life of
living in Christ Jesus.
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So if you had the job of
explaining, it’s always fun to
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look at concepts like this that
if you were going to explain
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God’s plan of redemption, and
now I ask you to explain it to
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me, but I’m not going to let you
use words like sacrifices and
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offerings and all those common
terms that we love to use.
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When we go to explain about the
sacrifice of Christ or God’s
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plan of redemption, you’re going
to explain it.
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You can’t use the terms of the
Law of Moses.
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You can’t go back to the shadows
and describe it with the
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shadows.
I want you to really explain the
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plan of redemption.
Where would you go and how would
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you do that?
Has somebody already done that
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for us?
That’s the first question I want
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to know, Has somebody already
done that?
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And what happens in our
community, brother and sisters,
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is when we go to explain God’s
redemptive plan, we immediately
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want to talk about sacrifices
and offerings, and we want to go
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to the language of the law.
That is our natural tendency,
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but it’s actually possible to
explain it without all of that,
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because the law was only
shadows.
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It was only shadows of the
reality.
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It wasn’t the reality itself.
So when the apostle Paul penned
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the letter to the Romans, did
you realize that he wrote his
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exposition of the atonement
without talking about sacrifices
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and offerings and the devil?
Do you ever notice that he
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purposely leaves those out?
He puts them in, in Hebrews.
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Oh, sure.
He, you know, he destroyed him
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who had the power of death.
That is the devil.
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He doesn’t mention the devil in
Romans because that was too
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confusing to people.
He doesn’t mention sacrifices
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when he writes the letter to the
Romans, and he doesn’t mention
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offerings.
And instead, he gives us a
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straightforward exposition of
what God really did in Christ
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Jesus.
And after you study Romans, then
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you can go look at Hebrews and
find out, well, here’s how he
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then shows that this fulfilled
the Old Testament shadows.
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But it’s totally backwards to
try to do it the other way.
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And what we end up doing is in
our community is we end up
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trying to force the work that
God was doing back into the
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shadows and misunderstand that.
Wait a minute.
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The shadows were just trying to
show different aspects of the
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real work that God did in His
Son.
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So it’s a great place to go.
It’s go to the book of Romans if
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you want to study the atonement
today.
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That’s Paul’s straightforward
exposition on what God really
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did.
In fact, you’ve never noticed
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when he actually does mention a
sacrifice.
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Where’s the first time he brings
up the word sacrifice in the
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book of Romans, chapter 12, way
into chapter 12?
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And what kind of sacrifice is
it?
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Present your bodies as a living
sacrifice, holy and acceptable
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to God, which is your reasonable
service.
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See, Paul got this really good.
He understood it so well, and he
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was able to deal with both Jews
and Gentiles and argue on his
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case in both arenas because he
understood it so well.
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It’s just fun to watch him just
just pour out the Scriptures the
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way he does and explain it in a
straightforward way.
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So when you look at the
redemptive plan, what God was
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really after, if you forget
about your your preconceived
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ideas about sacrifices and
offerings for a minute, really
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the goal was to cleanse the race
of sin.
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That’s God’s goal.
He wants to, he’s going to beat
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sin.
He’s going to defeat Amalek in
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the end, and he’s going to
create a community, a family for
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him which had totally given up
on sin.
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He wants to redeem these
children that he has from death.
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That’s part of his goal, and
he’s going to do it by an actual
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destroying of sin.
Somebody is going to actually
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beat sin and put the devil to
death.
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That’s the goal.
He has to have someone declare
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him right, declare the
righteousness of God.
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So he wants one of our race to
voluntarily overcome and destroy
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sin.
This is his game plan that he
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sets out.
This would have to be someone
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who would completely believe
that God is right, His way is
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right, He’s just, He’s truth.
And this person would have to
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commit totally to accepting the
will of God.
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His will would have to be
swallowed up in the will of God,
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and he’d have to live his whole
life that way in obedience to
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God and always doing the will of
his Father.
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You know, that’s what we’ve got
in Christ.
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I came to do your will, O God.
That’s what he did.
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So he’d finish it then with a
blood shedding death that
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publicly condemned sin and
declared God right.
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That’s what he wants.
He wants a public demonstration
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to show the world that God was
right in putting us in
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condemning this race to death
and requiring that we commit to
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joining Christ in his death to
sin.
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This was the decision that the
Father had made, and this is
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what we cooperate with in our
baptism.
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So his obedient life then was
going to show, really tell all
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of us that this is how God’s
children live.
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This is the way we’re supposed
to live as members of his
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family.
And his obedient death was going
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to condemn and destroy sin.
So you have both aspects in the
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death of Christ.
One of them is.
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Showing us that sin must be put
to death.
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The other one is demonstrating
that when he was reviled, he
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didn’t revile in return.
You live a life.
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This is a life to be lived
that’s in obedience to God, and
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this was all going to be real.
This is not shadows.
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This is not sacrifices and
offerings and all of that kind
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of legalistic stuff under the
law.
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This was going to be a real
demonstration of the
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righteousness of God, and that’s
what he was after, a real
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destroying of the devil.
Somebody is really going to do
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it and his bloodshedding death
was required by God for sins,
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public condemnation.
That’s what it was going to do.
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That’s why there was a
bloodshedding death.
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Sin was going to be destroyed.
And we’ll look at that tomorrow
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morning in the exhortation.
See, it isn’t so much the fact
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that that Christ died and you’ll
notice the gospel writers, they
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never stressed like all the
torture that he went through and
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all the things that go that are
go on and his crucifixion.
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Instead, they don’t look at it
from the perspective of the
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people who looked at him and
said he’s a criminal, we should
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kill him.
He deserves to be punished.
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The Bible doesn’t present him
that way.
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And instead the Bible says look
at it from God’s perspective.
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What God and his Son did is they
took the devil to the cross and
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nailed it up there and crucified
sin.
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That’s what they did.
Oh sure, all those other people
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thought they were treating him
like a Sinner.
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They thought he deserved it.
And God says, Oh no, that’s not
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what I’m doing.
I’m destroying sin.
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And I’m going to save all those
people who look up in faith and
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say that’s what I want too.
That’s how simple the atonement
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really is.
Brothers and sisters, He just
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joined with Christ and a death
like his and walk out and a life
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like his.
This is what saves us today.
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This is what the
Christadelphians have understood
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as a community for all these
years.
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So he declared God right, that
God’s sentence on sin, the whole
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sentence on, on sin, on the root
and the cause was just and fair.
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That’s what declaring the
righteousness of God is really
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all about.
And the angels couldn’t do it.
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So when you look at, well, why
did it require a sinless man?
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Why did it have to be somebody
who is sinless?
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Well, that makes the issue
clear.
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It’s not, you know, when, when
God was trying to illustrate the
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concept so nobody could miss it.
It was the body of sin.
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It was the human nature.
It’s the root cause that Christ
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bore in himself.
He had this in him too.
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That’s what was being condemned
and put to death.
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This is what he did up on the
tree.
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Sure, he, he didn’t deserve to
die like that because he had
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never sinned, but what he did is
he said my father’s rights.
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This is what must happen to this
body of sin, this nature that’s
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so prone to sin and all the
things that it wants to do.
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The whole package of sin is
going to die up there in the
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tree.
And to remove sin from God’s
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children, He had to deal with
the root cause so that he can
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righteously forgive our personal
sins.
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This is how God worked out a
plan and otherwise you start
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looking at how can he, just like
for all of us in here and
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myself, we all sin.
We all make so many mistakes and
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God hates sin.
So how can he righteously just
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look at us and say, I’m not
going to hold those sins against
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you or against you or you or you
or anybody in this room?
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He doesn’t.
Just overlook sin.
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He convinces us to join him in
his perspective so that we hate
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sin like he does.
And we joined the work of Christ
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and we are in him and God.
Then I can then righteously
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forgive your sins.
You’ve joined me.
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You’ve like joined his team and
you accept the way he looks at
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it.
And now he can forgive us by his
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grace through Jesus Christ our
Lord.
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Now you’ll notice when you
describe it that way, it’s the
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there’s nothing about punishment
going on in the crucifixion of
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Christ and and God’s destruction
of sin.
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So often when we describe it, we
want to use the words
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punishment.
We want to pull in the words
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deserve.
And we do this.
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We this is what we do sometimes
when we’re explaining this.
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But you’ll notice when Paul
writes about it in Romans 1 to
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8, he doesn’t use these words.
He doesn’t talk about us
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deserving punishment.
And that this is what Jesus
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Christ was doing is showing us
the punishment that we deserve.
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You won’t find that in Paul’s
exposition, but you’ll find that
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in the writings in our
community.
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You won’t find this idea of
Christ deserving it because he
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had our nature, that He deserved
to be up there on the tree.
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And that isn’t in Paul’s
exposition at all.
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And it wasn’t just for us,
although the Bible emphasizes
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that over and over again, that
that was the motive of Jesus
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Christ.
His motive was to save us.
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That’s why he went through it.
It probably wasn’t worth it for
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himself, but he had all of us in
mind and he wanted to please his
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father and he went through it
for us.
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And that’s what the Bible
emphasizes as his motive,
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because that’s what will
convince us to do it too.
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I bet a lot of you over there,
especially as younger people,
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sometimes you start looking at
your life and you think, is this
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really worth it?
Is it really worth it for me to
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go through this just for me?
And some of you will end up
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analyzing that and say, no, it
isn’t worth it.
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But when you’re married to a
spouse and you have children and
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you have an ecclesia and a
family that you care about, all
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of a sudden you realize it’s not
just about me.
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It’s about all those other
people that we’ve come to save.
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And that’s what motivated Christ
to go through it.
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And you’ll see that’s the
emphasis all the way through the
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New Testament.
He did it for us because that’s
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what is the motivating power.
This is the power of the cross,
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and he went through it himself.
So what was the purpose then of
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all those sacrifices?
Why did God have people going
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through this for years, for
thousands of years?
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They went through all those
animal sacrifices.
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What were they supposed to do?
Well, they were shadows.
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That’s what they were.
They were shadows predicting a
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time that was coming, and they
were shadows that show different
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aspects of the atoning work of
Jesus Christ.
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They were shadows that were
supposed to teach people about
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the destruction of the devil of
sin was going to be destroyed.
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But Christ’s death wasn’t simply
the best sacrifice, brothers and
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sisters.
That’s not what he was.
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Oh no.
He was the real work.
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That sacrifice was designed to
teach by shadow.
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That’s really what it was all
about.
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So when you see Jesus Christ up
on the pole and you see our New
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Testament expositors talking
about that, teaching us that we
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must die to sin and live to God,
then you go back to the animal
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sacrifices and realize that when
you laid your hands on an animal
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and you brought your animal to
the high priest or to the priest
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that was there and you picked
out an animal that was without
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blemish, without blemish, that’s
not me, that’s Jesus Christ.
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And you bring your animal to the
high priest and the priest and
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you lay your hands on that
animal and you acknowledge the
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fact that that man is going to
die and I’m going to die with
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him.
This is Romans 6.
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This is what Paul explains in
Romans 6, that animal sacrifice
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was supposed to do.
It’s what our baptism does.
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You identify with him.
You are found in Him not having
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a righteousness of our own, but
one that’s based on faith that
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we commit to die with Christ to
sin.
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And because of that, God brings
us into his family and he
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forgives us of all our mistakes.
And this is what God was trying
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to teach all those years.
And instead people turned it
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into some substitutionary thing
while the animal dies instead of
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me and I’m free to go on and
just do what I want.
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And they always had this
substitution stuff.
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And we don’t want that coming
into our community.
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That’s not part of the truth at
all.
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You won’t ever find a New
Testament writer ever using
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those words about animal
sacrifice or the sacrifice of
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Jesus Christ.
It was never about substitute or
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dying instead of you.
It was always that He died as an
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example showing us how to live.
That’s how they always explain
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it.
And that’s what God was trying
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to do with the shadows.
But people misunderstood the
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shadows.
So don’t forget the shadows in
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the law.
They really were just shadows.
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They were not the very image.
That’s Paul’s words.
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They were not the very image and
they could never make the
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worshippers perfect.
Why not?
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Because he says it couldn’t
affect your conscience.
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Your conscience.
You go through all those
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procedures and walk away and
think, Oh no, that’s just an
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animal, doesn’t affect me, has
no moral impact on your life.
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It doesn’t convince you to die
to sin, doesn’t convince you to
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join with Christ when you’re
just doing it that way.
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It could never affect the
conscience of the worshippers.
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He says, but the sacrifice of
Christ, oh boy, that better.
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Affect our consciences, because
if that one doesn’t, there’s no
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hope of God saving us.
This was His most powerful
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motive he could ever give us to
change our lives.
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The sacrifice of his Son, the
giving of his Son, of putting
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sin to death.
So the 3D shadows, when you look
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back at them, you can see how
shadows can sometimes help you
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create an image.
But I’ll just show you here,
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what’s the problem with the law?
So you look at a shadow of a
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tree like that and you try to
figure out, all right, what kind
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of tree is that from the shadow?
I’m only going to give you 1
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shadow.
And you got to guess and see, oh
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really?
That actually came from an oak
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tree.
So then you look at another one
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and you say, ah, extra clues
this time.
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So by looking at different
aspects of the law, what
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sometimes happened when you did
an offering, one kind of
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offering and then another one.
And then there were the feast
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days, and then there was a day
of atonement and then this.
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And that’s right.
And there’s all these different
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components that God put into the
law so that you could see
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different shadows of the real
work that he was aiming at.
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And the more clues you get, the
better three-dimensional picture
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you can create about what this
really is.
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And that’s what he had hoped
would happen with the law.
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But the problem was the Jews
just took their law and they
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turned it into something for
which they could earn their
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salvation.
So you can see with that.
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See, some shadows are very
clear, maybe as to what you
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think they are.
Other times we need extra help.
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But the more detail and the more
angles you get, the better the
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three-dimensional picture.
And the better you knew the law
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and tried to figure out what it
was doing, the better you could
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do at understanding the shadows.
The problem with the shadows is
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that when you see one shadow, it
can sometimes be very
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misleading.
And we’ve, you know, as a
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community, we sometimes do this
in misunderstanding or
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misapplying the law.
So you look at that shadow up
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there and you say, I know what
that is.
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And then you find out, oops,
wasn’t quite what I thought.
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And that’s the problem with
shadows, and that’s why you have
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to be very careful that we don’t
build our exposition of the
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atonement from the shadows today
when we have Paul’s and Peters
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and James’s three-dimensional
exposition of what this really
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was designed to mean.
So we got to go back and look at
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what actually happened.
So when you start looking at
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Jesus Christ, for example, in
relation to God saving his Son,
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Jesus Christ didn’t need a
sacrifice.
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Now I’ll say that again, He
didn’t need a sacrifice.
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He was the real work that the
shadows were designed to teach.
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He, He didn’t need a sacrifice.
He was the sacrifice.
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He was the reality that all
those animal sacrifices were
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trying to teach about shadows of
the one who would come and put
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the devil to death, put sin to
death, and declare God right.
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So in the letter to the Hebrews,
Paul uses all that language of
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the law to show the Jews that
the law had predicted that
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better sacrifices were coming,
as he says.
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But in the letter to the Romans,
Paul then gives his exposition
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without even using their
language of the law, and he
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confronts them without using
sacrifices and offerings and
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talks about what God did.
God condemned sin in the flesh
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of Jesus.
Christ doesn’t use the word
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sacrifice because sacrifice is a
shadow of that reality.
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And it’s it’s fun to look at
those differences because this
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is how you start to understand
the way Paul saw at least as you
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look at Romans and compare it
with Hebrews.
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Don’t make Jesus fit the law.
He was the reality that the
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whole law was actually based on.
So on the cross when we, when we
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give our expositions of the
atonement, we explain God’s plan
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of redemption and we see Jesus
up there on the pole and
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suffering away and sin being put
to death.
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Christ wasn’t suffering somebody
else’s punishment.
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He wasn’t suffering your
punishment.
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The Bible never says that.
No, no New Testament writers
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ever say that.
He was suffering the punishment
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that you deserve.
And yet sometimes you’ll hear
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people say that, especially in
our Christian community today.
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They like that because then they
say, well, because you deserve
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that punishment and he suffered
it for you.
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He’s your substitute.
He took it in place of you.
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00:24:24,400 –> 00:24:28,400
But you won’t find Bible writers
talking about it like that.
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And we don’t want to either.
We don’t want to get into things
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00:24:31,040 –> 00:24:33,280
that our Bible expositors don’t
use.
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So he wasn’t suffering somebody
else’s punishment.
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He wasn’t illustrating the
punishment that sinners deserve.
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You won’t find that either.
Even though it’s true that yes,
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we deserve to die, that isn’t
why God put him on the cross.
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God put him there to condemn
sin.
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That’s what he’s there for.
Even though it’s true that
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sinners deserve death, you won’t
find Peter, Paul, James, none of
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them look at Jesus Christ on the
pole and say that was teaching
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00:24:59,400 –> 00:25:01,760
us what we deserve.
You won’t find that.
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Go ahead and search your Bible
all over the place.
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It isn’t there because that’s
not the lesson God’s trying to
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establish.
You won’t find that He that
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there are Bible expositors ever
say that He deserved the cross
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00:25:12,960 –> 00:25:15,800
because He had human nature?
Where does some New Testament
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00:25:15,800 –> 00:25:19,560
writer ever say that?
They don’t Because He didn’t
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deserve it, because He had our
nature.
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It wasn’t about punishment and
deserve.
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It was about a real work of
destroying sin.
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It’s not about punishment,
deserve and all those kind of
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concepts.
And he wasn’t going through some
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kind of ritual or ceremony to
save us.
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00:25:35,600 –> 00:25:37,760
There’s nothing ritualistic
about this.
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This was a real condemning of
sin, really.
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00:25:41,760 –> 00:25:44,280
God destroyed him that had the
power of death.
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That is the devil.
He condemned sin in the body of
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his Son.
That’s what God really did in
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Christ.
And So what Christ shows us is
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00:25:53,080 –> 00:25:57,200
he shows us how to live the
righteousness of God in our
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daily lives.
It was all about changing how we
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live.
And God’s given us the motive
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power to change so that we are
no longer slaves of sin, but we
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become slaves of righteousness.
So Christ’s death to sin, when
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you look at our New Testament
writers, look at how they they
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00:26:13,280 –> 00:26:16,880
refer to it, you’ll find it in
Hebrews 2 that he destroyed him
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00:26:16,880 –> 00:26:18,920
that had the power of death.
That is the devil.
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00:26:19,160 –> 00:26:22,200
First John three, He was
manifested to take away our
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sins.
First John 3 and 8 For this
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00:26:24,560 –> 00:26:27,120
purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might
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00:26:27,120 –> 00:26:31,200
destroy the works of the devil.
In Hebrews 9 and 26, he’s
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00:26:31,200 –> 00:26:34,640
appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself.
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00:26:35,040 –> 00:26:39,200
John, one in 29, the Lamb of God
who takes away the sin of the
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00:26:39,200 –> 00:26:41,560
world.
And first Peter too, you know,
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00:26:41,560 –> 00:26:45,600
he himself bore our sins in his
own body on the tree that we
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00:26:45,680 –> 00:26:48,360
might die to sin and live to
righteousness.
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00:26:48,640 –> 00:26:52,280
It’s all this is how our New
Testament writers use this It’s
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00:26:52,320 –> 00:26:56,280
all about putting sin to death,
that God can forgive our sins
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00:26:56,280 –> 00:26:58,640
and that we lead a different
kind of life.
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00:26:58,640 –> 00:27:01,240
That’s what it was about, and
now you can see why it was
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essential that Christ not be an
Angel and that he not have some
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00:27:04,040 –> 00:27:07,360
angelic nature, that he not be
some foreign God, the God that
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00:27:07,360 –> 00:27:09,320
came down and took on a human
body.
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He had to be.
One of us, he had to have weak
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human nature so he could really
die to sin.
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As Paul says, he died to sin
once in Romans 6, in first, in
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00:27:21,520 –> 00:27:25,160
the first, in Second Corinthians
5 and 21, he was made sin for
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00:27:25,160 –> 00:27:27,400
us, you know, passages that
we’re familiar with.
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And in in first Peter two, he
bore our sins in his body.
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00:27:30,680 –> 00:27:33,320
Hebrews 9.
He was offered to bear the sins
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00:27:33,320 –> 00:27:35,920
of many, but he will come again
not to bear sin.
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00:27:36,360 –> 00:27:40,000
And in Romans 8, God condemned.
Sin in the flesh.
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So Christ had to have this weak
human nature so that he could
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00:27:43,560 –> 00:27:45,960
win his victory.
So when you look at what was
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00:27:45,960 –> 00:27:50,240
going on, how God set out to
condemn sin in the flesh, in the
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body of Jesus Christ, his Son,
you got the conflict that
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00:27:54,120 –> 00:27:57,800
develops within Mary because
within Christ, because from Mary
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he gets the physical defilement,
he inherits mortality, He
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00:28:01,440 –> 00:28:03,880
inherits this nature that’s so
prone to sin.
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But from God, what he gets, the
component that he gets from his
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00:28:07,680 –> 00:28:12,120
Father is he gets a physical
potential for perfect obedience.
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00:28:12,320 –> 00:28:15,280
Didn’t mean he had to be
perfectly obedient, but he got
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00:28:15,280 –> 00:28:19,360
the potential that none of the
rest of the race ever had of
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00:28:19,360 –> 00:28:23,440
becoming the savior of the race.
And so morning by morning, the
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00:28:23,440 –> 00:28:28,080
Scriptures say God wakened him.
He also had a natural bias in
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some way to his dad.
I think that probably was
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00:28:30,880 –> 00:28:34,280
important and in some way that
to help him in his fight against
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00:28:34,280 –> 00:28:36,560
sin.
And this is what God did then,
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00:28:36,560 –> 00:28:40,240
as he created in his Son a
component, He has a member of
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our race now who has our nature,
who has mortality, who has a
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00:28:45,080 –> 00:28:50,120
bias to sin, a proneness to sin
that we feel so that he can feel
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00:28:50,120 –> 00:28:53,040
our temptations.
He knows what it’s like to look
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00:28:53,040 –> 00:28:57,000
at something and actually want
it or to dream about something
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00:28:57,000 –> 00:28:58,720
and possibly think about having
it.
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And yet at the same time, he
inherits from his Father this
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00:29:02,440 –> 00:29:06,160
ability that the Father can
develop in him of overcoming
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00:29:06,160 –> 00:29:08,840
sin.
And so some people look at that
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00:29:08,840 –> 00:29:11,720
and they say, all right, this
does that mean that Jesus had an
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00:29:11,720 –> 00:29:14,760
unfair advantage?
He had something that you don’t
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00:29:14,760 –> 00:29:18,240
have.
He had the physical potential to
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00:29:18,240 –> 00:29:22,360
develop perfect obedience.
Nobody in this room has that.
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00:29:22,720 –> 00:29:26,080
So is that unfair?
Well, you know when you look at
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00:29:26,080 –> 00:29:28,760
that really, and you think, all
right, Christ had that, I don’t
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00:29:28,760 –> 00:29:31,640
have that.
Would you want laid on you the
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00:29:31,640 –> 00:29:36,600
fact that you could never sin?
You can never make one mistake.
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00:29:37,000 –> 00:29:39,720
You are, you know.
Everybody in the whole room and
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00:29:39,720 –> 00:29:43,560
the whole city and the whole
community for thousands of years
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00:29:43,560 –> 00:29:47,160
is counting on you to make it.
And you look at that and say,
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00:29:47,160 –> 00:29:51,320
was that an unfair advantage?
That was a huge stressor in his
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00:29:51,320 –> 00:29:53,600
life.
The pressure was enormous.
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00:29:53,960 –> 00:29:57,240
And so, you know, it’s that’s an
important concept to real about
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00:29:57,240 –> 00:30:00,200
realize about Jesus Christ.
Sometimes as younger people, we
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00:30:00,200 –> 00:30:02,440
sometimes look at that and say,
well, that’s not fair.
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00:30:02,440 –> 00:30:06,120
He had something I didn’t have,
but look at what was required of
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00:30:06,120 –> 00:30:10,200
him that is not required of us.
And he wasn’t a Superman.
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00:30:10,200 –> 00:30:12,480
That’s another concept I
remember as a younger person
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00:30:12,480 –> 00:30:15,280
growing up as a Christadelphian,
then a Christadelphian Sunday
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school with great parents who
taught me the truth.
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00:30:18,000 –> 00:30:21,320
But at the same time, I had a
natural tendency to think that
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Jesus Christ easily overcame
sin.
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00:30:24,000 –> 00:30:27,440
I used to read the temptation in
the in the garden, in the
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00:30:27,440 –> 00:30:29,240
wilderness.
And you know, if you know,
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00:30:29,280 –> 00:30:31,360
turning stones into bread, no
problem.
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00:30:31,360 –> 00:30:34,320
Bible passage immediately.
You know, you shall not live by
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00:30:34,320 –> 00:30:36,520
bread alone, but by every word
that proceeds in the mouth of
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00:30:36,520 –> 00:30:39,720
God, not next temptation, you
know, and that that’s sort of
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00:30:39,720 –> 00:30:42,040
like the way I viewed him like a
Superman where just like
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00:30:42,040 –> 00:30:44,080
temptations bounced off of him
easily.
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00:30:44,400 –> 00:30:46,400
And it’s not until you’re
reading the Psalms.
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So you see him in the garden
that you realize what a struggle
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00:30:49,400 –> 00:30:51,880
it was.
And you see that human side of
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00:30:51,880 –> 00:30:55,360
Christ, of what he was going
through day by day, learning
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00:30:55,360 –> 00:30:59,200
obedience, by the things that he
suffered and he heard for his
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00:30:59,200 –> 00:31:02,160
godly fear, and he’s crying to
his Father for help.
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00:31:02,760 –> 00:31:06,840
This whole subject also helps
understand why Jesus Christ was
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baptized.
Sometimes our kids ask us that.
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00:31:09,080 –> 00:31:10,800
They wonder like, why was Christ
baptized?
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00:31:10,800 –> 00:31:13,400
He didn’t have any sins.
Because we say today, you know,
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00:31:13,400 –> 00:31:14,960
why?
Why are we getting baptized?
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00:31:14,960 –> 00:31:16,960
So some young person over there
decides they want to get
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00:31:16,960 –> 00:31:19,000
baptized.
So you’re going to get baptized.
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00:31:19,120 –> 00:31:21,560
Why do you want to be baptized?
That’s a common question that
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00:31:21,560 –> 00:31:23,880
they ask at baptizal interviews.
So you got to know the answer to
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00:31:23,880 –> 00:31:25,520
that one.
So why do you want to be
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00:31:25,520 –> 00:31:27,600
baptized?
And you say, well, because I
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00:31:27,600 –> 00:31:31,040
want to be forgiven of my sins.
And then you think, well, why
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00:31:31,040 –> 00:31:33,720
was Jesus baptized?
He didn’t have any sins to be
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00:31:33,720 –> 00:31:37,440
forgiven of.
But when you look at sin, as
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00:31:37,440 –> 00:31:41,680
John Thomas explained it, the
whole component of sin, when you
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look at the root and the ’cause
then Christ had no personal
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00:31:45,760 –> 00:31:47,600
sins, so.
Was it really?
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00:31:47,600 –> 00:31:50,520
Just an example to us because
that’s the next thing that
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00:31:50,520 –> 00:31:53,560
people then say, well, he did it
for us so that we would follow
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00:31:53,560 –> 00:31:56,720
in the steps.
And we sometimes fail to realize
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00:31:56,720 –> 00:31:59,200
that look at he was really
fighting this battle.
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00:31:59,480 –> 00:32:03,080
He’s fighting this battle and
it’s more intense in him than it
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00:32:03,080 –> 00:32:05,720
is in us.
He can’t sin once.
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00:32:05,720 –> 00:32:09,320
He can’t give in.
And so much was required of him.
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00:32:09,720 –> 00:32:12,560
And so you find that John the
Baptist said that I need to be
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00:32:12,560 –> 00:32:14,600
baptized by you and are you
coming to me?
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00:32:15,120 –> 00:32:18,160
You know, and this is the one
who he said was spoken to by the
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00:32:18,160 –> 00:32:20,720
prophet Isaiah, the voice of one
crying in the wilderness, and
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00:32:20,720 –> 00:32:23,080
prepare the way of the Lord and
make his paths straight.
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00:32:23,520 –> 00:32:26,520
So what Jesus Christ did when he
went down into the waters of
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00:32:26,520 –> 00:32:30,400
baptism is he understood the
whole process of the devil and
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00:32:30,400 –> 00:32:32,360
sin.
And he went down there as a
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00:32:32,360 –> 00:32:37,000
public testimony to his friends,
to the world, to his Father, to
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00:32:37,000 –> 00:32:41,440
the angels in heaven, that he
was committed to declare God
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00:32:41,480 –> 00:32:46,800
right for his condemnation of
sin, of the root and the cause.
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And because of that, the Father
opened the heavens and was so
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00:32:50,680 –> 00:32:53,840
pleased and said, this is my
beloved Son.
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I mean, this is what he’s been
waiting for, for all these
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00:32:56,400 –> 00:33:00,960
years, for 6000 years for
someone to declare him right.
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00:33:01,320 –> 00:33:04,720
And Jesus Christ did that.
John the Baptist had been crying
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00:33:04,720 –> 00:33:07,920
that all flesh is grass.
He was, you know, referring back
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00:33:07,920 –> 00:33:10,200
to Isaiah 40 right there.
What shall I cry?
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00:33:10,200 –> 00:33:13,320
All flesh is grass, and it’s
loveliness is like the flower of
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00:33:13,320 –> 00:33:15,480
the field.
The grass Withers, The flower
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00:33:15,480 –> 00:33:17,920
fades because the breath of the
Lord blows upon it.
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Surely the people are grass.
The grass Withers, the flower
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00:33:21,240 –> 00:33:23,800
fades, but the Word of God
stands forever.
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00:33:24,200 –> 00:33:26,960
So Jesus Christ comes along at
that point and says to John,
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John, we’ve got to do this, I’ve
got to do this.
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Thus it becometh us to fulfill
all righteousness.
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00:33:32,920 –> 00:33:37,200
So he declared that his dad was
right for the whole process of
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00:33:37,200 –> 00:33:40,920
how he had condemned sin and all
the things that God had done.
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00:33:41,120 –> 00:33:44,520
He was right to condemn sin to
death, sinners to death.
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00:33:44,760 –> 00:33:47,760
God was right to require us to
put the old man to death.
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00:33:47,920 –> 00:33:50,240
Christ was committed to doing
that.
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00:33:50,560 –> 00:33:54,920
And so his declaration in
baptism was simply what he would
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00:33:54,920 –> 00:33:57,520
finally do at the cross.
We just were looking at that
643
00:33:57,520 –> 00:34:00,280
last week when Brother Jim
Harper was given his classes up
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at VIBC, that this was where the
process started.
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00:34:03,640 –> 00:34:06,920
He went out there, went down
into the water and he declared.
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00:34:06,920 –> 00:34:10,600
God’s right.
The old man must die, and that
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00:34:10,600 –> 00:34:13,840
was a commitment then, and it
was a commitment that at the end
648
00:34:13,840 –> 00:34:17,440
he would do it on the cross,
which was why God was so pleased
649
00:34:17,440 –> 00:34:20,679
with his condemnation of sin as
the acknowledgement of the of
650
00:34:20,679 –> 00:34:22,560
the Son that the Father was
right.
651
00:34:23,159 –> 00:34:26,320
So why we’re baptized, we get
baptized and we tell our young
652
00:34:26,320 –> 00:34:29,679
people, you’re baptized with the
forgiveness of your sins.
653
00:34:30,159 –> 00:34:34,199
But what you want to remember is
the whole concept of baptism
654
00:34:34,280 –> 00:34:37,560
isn’t just about the forgiveness
of our sins.
655
00:34:37,880 –> 00:34:42,600
It’s about the fact that we are
committed to die with Christ to
656
00:34:42,600 –> 00:34:44,960
sin.
That’s what we’re committing to
657
00:34:44,960 –> 00:34:47,320
in baptism.
It isn’t just so that we can be
658
00:34:47,320 –> 00:34:50,400
forgiven of our sins.
It’s so that we will tell our
659
00:34:50,400 –> 00:34:53,840
friends, our neighbors, those
around us, the angels in heaven,
660
00:34:54,159 –> 00:34:57,240
God in Christ himself, that we
are making a covenant, a
661
00:34:57,240 –> 00:35:00,920
commitment that we are going to
put sin to death.
662
00:35:00,960 –> 00:35:04,800
That’s what we do.
And because of that, God can
663
00:35:04,800 –> 00:35:07,960
righteously forgive our sins.
That’s what we do.
664
00:35:07,960 –> 00:35:13,000
We join with Christ in a death
like His and the death like his
665
00:35:13,000 –> 00:35:17,280
isn’t his crucifixion on the
pole His death that that Paul’s
666
00:35:17,280 –> 00:35:20,000
referring to is his death to
sin.
667
00:35:20,320 –> 00:35:23,760
God condemned sin in the flesh
of Jesus Christ.
668
00:35:23,960 –> 00:35:26,640
It’s not some torturous death
that Paul’s referring to.
669
00:35:26,640 –> 00:35:30,760
He’s talking about the victory
that God and Christ won when
670
00:35:30,760 –> 00:35:34,080
they put sin to death.
So when you look at Jesus Christ
671
00:35:34,080 –> 00:35:36,320
and you try to figure out, well,
why was he doing this?
672
00:35:36,680 –> 00:35:40,680
Well, he inherited from Mary the
bodies that we have mortality
673
00:35:40,880 –> 00:35:43,480
and this nature that’s that’s
prone to sin.
674
00:35:43,800 –> 00:35:47,920
And so God designed a plan of
redemption where he would take
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00:35:47,920 –> 00:35:53,160
one of our race, one person, and
really save that one person.
676
00:35:53,400 –> 00:35:57,560
He would work in that one
person’s life and totally defeat
677
00:35:57,560 –> 00:36:02,960
sin and then put that person up
as the public example of this is
678
00:36:02,960 –> 00:36:06,000
what God really wants.
This is what God’s children’s
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00:36:06,000 –> 00:36:08,680
do.
They defeat sin and and they
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00:36:08,680 –> 00:36:12,600
live lives of righteousness to
God and declare God right in
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00:36:12,600 –> 00:36:15,600
everything that he asked.
God says, look at this is what
682
00:36:15,600 –> 00:36:19,200
we’re going to do and so he sets
out to save his son.
683
00:36:19,600 –> 00:36:22,800
This is from the angels
perspective when when Jesus
684
00:36:22,800 –> 00:36:26,840
Christ was born, this was the
focal point of 6000 years.
685
00:36:26,840 –> 00:36:30,440
We have to save Messiah.
He’s got to make it and then the
686
00:36:30,440 –> 00:36:33,680
goal would be that the rest of
the family be saved in him.
687
00:36:34,560 –> 00:36:37,320
So as well as Robert Roberts put
it in the law of Moses, when he,
688
00:36:37,320 –> 00:36:40,120
when he wrote that, he actually
made a comment on this concept
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00:36:40,120 –> 00:36:42,400
about what it means that Christ
died for us.
690
00:36:42,880 –> 00:36:45,720
And he said there that the
statement that he did these
691
00:36:45,720 –> 00:36:51,000
things for us has blinded many
to the fact that he did them for
692
00:36:51,120 –> 00:36:55,600
himself first, for without which
he could not have done them for
693
00:36:55,600 –> 00:36:57,840
us.
For it was by doing them for
694
00:36:57,840 –> 00:37:02,840
himself that he did them for us,
and he did them for us only in
695
00:37:02,840 –> 00:37:07,320
his, as we may become a part of
Him in merging our individual,
696
00:37:07,400 –> 00:37:11,600
our individualities in Him by
taking part in his death.
697
00:37:12,080 –> 00:37:15,320
And again, he’s not talking
about his torturous death on a
698
00:37:15,320 –> 00:37:18,000
cross.
He’s talking about taking part
699
00:37:18,000 –> 00:37:21,640
in his death to sin.
This is how Paul would put it,
700
00:37:22,120 –> 00:37:25,400
and putting on his name and
sharing his life afterwards.
701
00:37:25,520 –> 00:37:29,760
He is, as it were, a center of
healthy life in which we must
702
00:37:29,760 –> 00:37:32,240
become incorporate before we can
be saved.
703
00:37:32,640 –> 00:37:35,280
So you can see that as, as
Robert Roberts saw it, it’s this
704
00:37:35,280 –> 00:37:37,360
concept of doing it for us, for
us, for us.
705
00:37:37,360 –> 00:37:40,960
As it’s so stressed in the New
Testament, it can sometimes lead
706
00:37:40,960 –> 00:37:44,160
people down a pathway where they
end up thinking, well, God
707
00:37:44,160 –> 00:37:47,160
didn’t really need to do it for
him, but He did.
708
00:37:47,160 –> 00:37:49,480
He was born with our nature.
He had mortality.
709
00:37:49,480 –> 00:37:53,320
He had a proneness to sin.
He needed salvation.
710
00:37:53,560 –> 00:37:56,440
Christ needed to be saved from
this nature of sin.
711
00:37:56,720 –> 00:38:02,160
And so God set up a plan to save
his Son and in saving his Son,
712
00:38:02,280 –> 00:38:05,600
and the focal point was that he
would be saving the rest of the
713
00:38:05,600 –> 00:38:07,680
race.
And that’s how Jesus Christ saw
714
00:38:07,680 –> 00:38:09,360
it.
That’s why He went through it
715
00:38:09,360 –> 00:38:11,480
for us.
I think you’ll see that Christ
716
00:38:11,480 –> 00:38:13,120
never lost track of that
concept.
717
00:38:13,120 –> 00:38:16,480
He never lost focus on the fact
that He was going through it for
718
00:38:16,480 –> 00:38:18,440
the group, for the good of the
group.
719
00:38:18,760 –> 00:38:21,760
So that in Luke 18, when the
ruler came to him and said, good
720
00:38:21,760 –> 00:38:24,120
teacher, what shall I do to
inherit eternal life?
721
00:38:24,640 –> 00:38:27,640
Immediately his mind goes to the
fact that, wait a minute, I’m
722
00:38:27,640 –> 00:38:30,840
not good teacher.
He says, why do you call me
723
00:38:30,840 –> 00:38:33,720
good?
No one is good but one that is
724
00:38:33,720 –> 00:38:36,040
God don’t end up putting me up
there.
725
00:38:36,240 –> 00:38:39,200
I’m in this because my father’s
going to use me.
726
00:38:39,200 –> 00:38:42,320
He’s going to save me so that I
can save the rest.
727
00:38:42,680 –> 00:38:44,680
He understood he had the devil
in him.
728
00:38:44,920 –> 00:38:48,280
He had to have the devil in him
because the victory had to be
729
00:38:48,280 –> 00:38:52,080
won over sin over the root and
the cause so that God could
730
00:38:52,080 –> 00:38:54,920
condemn sin in the flesh of
Jesus Christ.
731
00:38:55,200 –> 00:38:58,760
So he declared that God is the
only one who is good and don’t
732
00:38:58,760 –> 00:39:00,560
end up thinking better of
yourself.
733
00:39:01,400 –> 00:39:04,040
Later on in the New Testament
when people got off the track on
734
00:39:04,040 –> 00:39:07,320
this early on, this is what
became known as the Antichrist
735
00:39:07,320 –> 00:39:08,720
teaching.
This is where the original
736
00:39:08,720 –> 00:39:12,280
Antichrist stuff came from.
In first John 4 John refers to
737
00:39:12,280 –> 00:39:14,840
it that beloved don’t believe
every spirit but test the
738
00:39:14,840 –> 00:39:17,760
spirits whether they are of God
because many false prophets have
739
00:39:17,760 –> 00:39:21,120
gone out into the world and by
this you will know the Spirit of
740
00:39:21,120 –> 00:39:23,960
God.
Every spirit that confesses that
741
00:39:23,960 –> 00:39:27,600
Jesus Christ has come in the
flesh is of God, and every
742
00:39:27,600 –> 00:39:30,680
spirit that does not confess
that Jesus Christ has come in
743
00:39:30,680 –> 00:39:32,400
the flesh is.
Not of God.
744
00:39:32,680 –> 00:39:35,280
This is the spirit of Antichrist
of which you have heard.
745
00:39:35,280 –> 00:39:39,080
It was coming and is now already
in the world because people
746
00:39:39,080 –> 00:39:42,200
immediately got off the track on
this and thought that Jesus
747
00:39:42,200 –> 00:39:43,920
Christ really didn’t come in the
flesh.
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00:39:44,200 –> 00:39:47,040
How in the world could a human
person ever be sinless?
749
00:39:47,240 –> 00:39:51,120
He must have been a God and they
immediately came up with this
750
00:39:51,120 –> 00:39:53,000
idea that Christ was different
than us.
751
00:39:53,000 –> 00:39:56,160
He had some pre-existing
existence and he had just come
752
00:39:56,160 –> 00:39:58,080
down and taken on a body for a
while.
753
00:39:58,080 –> 00:40:00,080
He didn’t really come in the
flesh.
754
00:40:00,400 –> 00:40:02,920
And when you go that route, you
take away the victory that.
755
00:40:02,920 –> 00:40:05,400
Was the great.
Victory that God accomplished of
756
00:40:05,400 –> 00:40:08,600
condemning sin in the body of
Jesus Christ.
757
00:40:09,240 –> 00:40:12,280
In Hebrews 9, when the apostle
Paul refers to this and looking
758
00:40:12,280 –> 00:40:14,840
at the shadows, because he’s
building his case now on the
759
00:40:14,840 –> 00:40:18,040
shadows of the law and saying,
here’s how the law foreshadowed
760
00:40:18,040 –> 00:40:20,520
this.
Christ came in Hebrews 9 at
761
00:40:20,520 –> 00:40:24,280
verse 11 as high priest of the
good things to come with the
762
00:40:24,280 –> 00:40:27,360
greater and more perfect
Tabernacle, not made with His
763
00:40:27,360 –> 00:40:30,880
hands, that is not of this
creation, and not with the blood
764
00:40:30,880 –> 00:40:34,720
of bulls or the blood of goats
and calves, but with His own
765
00:40:34,720 –> 00:40:37,600
blood.
He entered the Most Holy once
766
00:40:37,600 –> 00:40:40,680
for all, having obtained eternal
redemption.
767
00:40:41,280 –> 00:40:44,120
And some of your Bibles have
those words for us in there, and
768
00:40:44,120 –> 00:40:47,440
they really shouldn’t be there.
He entered into the holy place,
769
00:40:47,600 –> 00:40:52,720
force first for himself to
obtain eternal redemption so
770
00:40:52,720 –> 00:40:56,520
that he could in turn and
incorporate and save all of
771
00:40:56,520 –> 00:41:00,200
those who would be saved in him.
The Greek there is some of the
772
00:41:00,200 –> 00:41:03,120
expositors notices in the middle
voice right there indicating
773
00:41:03,120 –> 00:41:05,400
that the action has to be
applied to the subject.
774
00:41:05,400 –> 00:41:09,040
It’s not about us, it’s about
the fact that He went in to
775
00:41:09,040 –> 00:41:13,320
obtain eternal redemption for
Himself so that it could be for
776
00:41:13,320 –> 00:41:17,080
all of us.
God had to save his Son first so
777
00:41:17,080 –> 00:41:20,240
that He could save the rest.
Now, in covering this subject
778
00:41:20,240 –> 00:41:23,880
that way, this doesn’t eliminate
the concept that, as many people
779
00:41:23,880 –> 00:41:27,360
have often wondered, well, would
God have put Jesus Christ
780
00:41:27,360 –> 00:41:29,840
through all of this if it wasn’t
for all of us?
781
00:41:30,240 –> 00:41:32,400
And the Bible doesn’t comment on
that at all.
782
00:41:32,880 –> 00:41:35,400
And you can speculate on that
for the rest of your life
783
00:41:35,400 –> 00:41:37,960
because you know, it’s just,
it’s, it’s almost one of those
784
00:41:37,960 –> 00:41:40,480
questions that you can ask that
it’s almost worthless because
785
00:41:40,480 –> 00:41:43,400
what’s the point?
What the Bible comments on is.
786
00:41:43,400 –> 00:41:46,880
What we really have, we have a
race of people who are prone to
787
00:41:46,880 –> 00:41:50,120
sin, who are inevitably become
sinners, who are born with
788
00:41:50,120 –> 00:41:53,720
mortality.
God wants to save some, He loves
789
00:41:53,720 –> 00:41:58,440
them, and so he has his Son come
in the likeness of sinful flesh
790
00:41:58,480 –> 00:42:02,760
and for sin and condemn sin in
the flesh of his Son.
791
00:42:03,120 –> 00:42:06,440
And if Bible doesn’t comment on
at all on what God would have
792
00:42:06,440 –> 00:42:09,040
done with Jesus if it hadn’t
been for us.
793
00:42:09,640 –> 00:42:12,880
In Hebrews 7, when Paul again is
looking at the the shadows of
794
00:42:12,880 –> 00:42:18,200
the law, he refers to in verse
27 that who does not need daily
795
00:42:18,200 –> 00:42:22,320
as those high priests to OfferUp
sacrifices first for his own
796
00:42:22,320 –> 00:42:25,560
sins and then for the peoples as
they did under the law.
797
00:42:25,560 –> 00:42:28,200
Where the high priest would do
that, he’d go in and 1st go and
798
00:42:28,200 –> 00:42:31,560
offer for his own sins, and then
he would go back later and offer
799
00:42:31,560 –> 00:42:35,920
for the sins of the people.
He says that this he did once
800
00:42:36,000 –> 00:42:41,360
for all, once for all when he
offered up himself for the law
801
00:42:41,360 –> 00:42:43,600
appoints his high priest men who
have weaknesses.
802
00:42:43,600 –> 00:42:47,240
But the word of the oath which
came after the law appoints the
803
00:42:47,240 –> 00:42:49,400
Son who has been perfected
forever.
804
00:42:49,400 –> 00:42:53,520
Psalm 110, that you are a priest
forever after the order of
805
00:42:53,520 –> 00:42:56,720
Melchizedek.
So he did this once for all.
806
00:42:57,360 –> 00:42:59,440
Well, we’ll leave it there now
for Class 2.
807
00:42:59,520 –> 00:43:03,440
And in Class 3, we come back,
we’ll have a look at how God did
808
00:43:03,440 –> 00:43:07,560
save Jesus Christ and how that
plan of redemption is available
809
00:43:07,560 –> 00:43:08,320
for us too.
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