The Atonement

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The Atonement

• The Benefits and Our Participation in the
  Atonement

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The Benefits The Atonement in Hebrews

• Jesus - High Priest
• Every High Priest
• Hebrews 217 - Fully Human
• Hebrews 51, 5-6 - Appointed by God
• Hebrews 83 - A Sacrifice to Offer

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The Benefits The Atonement in Hebrews

• The Better Work of Christ
• 81 -1018, In what Ways does the work of Christ
  differ from Levitical High Priest and the
  Levitical Sacrifice?

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The Atonement relates to

• sin and its consequences
• Guilt
• fear
• death
• judgment
• bondage

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Forgiveness of Sin

• Jeremiah 3131-34
• "Behold, days are coming," declares the Lord,
  "when I will make a new covenant with the house
  of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not
  like the covenant (berith) which I made with
  their fathers in the day I took them by the hand
  to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My
  covenant which they broke, although I was a
  husband to them," declares the Lord. 33 "But
  this is the covenant which I will make with the
  house of Israel after those days," declares the
  Lord, "I will put My law within them and on their
  heart I will write it and I will be their God,
  and they shall be My people.

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Covenant - Berith

• A Vow, Intentional Commitment on the part of one
  to another - Marriage as Berith
• It was two way The one that they broke
• NOT like the former
• Instead, it is One-WayI will

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Forgiveness of Sin

• 34 "They will not teach again, each man his
  neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know
  the Lord,' for they will all know Me, from the
  least of them to the greatest of them," declares
  the Lord, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and
  their sin I will remember no more."

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Verse 34

• Forgive - Salach (also to Pardon)
• Iniquity - avon
• Sin - Chattah
• Remember zakar
• Forgive - To cover over to Pass over
• Remember no more To actively choose to remove
  from Presence

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Forgive is to take away

• 2 Samuel 1213
• Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned
  against the Lord." And Nathan said to David, "The
  Lord also has taken away your sin you shall not
  die.
• To take away Passed over

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Forgive is to completely free

• Job 1014
• If I sin, then You would take note of me,
  And would not acquit me of my guilt.
• Psalm 1912
• Who can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden
  faults.

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Forgive is to completely free

• Acts 1338-39
• "Therefore let it be known to you, brethren,
  that through Him forgiveness of sins is
  proclaimed to you, 39 and through Him everyone
  who believes is freed from all things, from which
  you could not be freed through the Law of Moses.

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Forgiveness is to create a distance

• Psalm 10312
• As far as the east is from the west,
• So far has He removed our transgressions from
  us.
• John 2023
• "If you forgive the sins of any, their sins
  have been forgiven them if you retain the sins
  of any, they have been retained."

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Forgive is to cover - atone

• Psalm 321-2
• How blessed is he whose transgression is
  forgiven,
• Whose sin is covered!
• 2 How blessed is the man to whom the Lord
  does not impute iniquity,
• And in whose spirit there is no deceit!
• Psalm 325
• I acknowledged my sin to You,
• And my iniquity I did not hide
• I said, "I will confess my transgressions to
  the Lord"
• And You forgave the guilt of my sin.

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The Essential of Forgiveness

• Matthew 1823-35
• "For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be
  compared to a king who wished to settle accounts
  with his slaves. 24 "When he had begun to
  settle them, one who owed him ten thousand
  talents was brought to him. 25 "But since he
  did not have the means to repay, his lord
  commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and
  children and all that he had, and repayment to be
  made. 26 "So the slave fell to the ground and
  prostrated himself before him, saying, 'Have
  patience with me and I will repay you
  everything.' 27 "And the lord of that slave
  felt compassion and released him and forgave him
  the debt.

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The Essential of Forgiveness

• 28 "But that slave went out and found one of
  his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii
  and he seized him and began to choke him, saying,
  'Pay back what you owe.' 29 "So his fellow
  slave fell to the ground and began to plead with
  him, saying, 'Have patience with me and I will
  repay you.' 30 "But he was unwilling and went
  and threw him in prison until he should pay back
  what was owed. 31 "So when his fellow slaves
  saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved
  and came and reported to their lord all that had
  happened. 32 "Then summoning him, his lord said
  to him, 'You wicked slave, I forgave you all that
  debt because you pleaded with me. 33 'Should
  you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave,
  in the same way that I had mercy on you?' 34
  "And his lord, moved with anger, handed him over
  to the torturers until he should repay all that
  was owed him. 35 "My heavenly Father will also
  do the same to you, if each of you does not
  forgive his brother from your heart."

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Making Forgiveness Priority

• Ephes. 432
• Be kind to one another, tender-hearted,
  forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also
  has forgiven you.
• Hebrews 10 11-18

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Making Forgiveness Priority

• Rev. 15
• and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness,
  the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the
  kings of the earth. To Him who loves us and
  released us from our sins by His blood

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Forgive

• To cover overusually through the blood of the
  sacrifice.
• To completely exoneratefree from obligation, nor
  to seek recompense
• To send awayremoving from the presence not
  rehearsing, not recalling, not entertaining, or
  making a place for further alienation to exist.

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The Atonement and Our Guilt

• Christs death and the ongoing nature of our
  sinfulness

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Guilt

• Psalm 325
• I acknowledged my sin to You,
• And my iniquity I did not hide
• I said, "I will confess my
  transgressions to the Lord"
• And You forgave the guilt of my sin.
• Isaiah 5310
• But the Lord was pleased
• To crush Him, putting Him to grief
• If He would render Himself as a guilt
  offering,
• He will see His offspring,
• He will prolong His days,
• And the good pleasure of the Lord
  will prosper in His hand.

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Fear

• Romans 815
• For you have not received a spirit of slavery
  leading to fear again, but you have received a
  spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out,
  "Abba! Father!"

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Atonement Relationship w/out Fear Romans 8

• Romans 81-4
• Therefore there is now no condemnation for
  those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of
  the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you
  free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For
  what the Law could not do, weak as it was through
  the flesh, God did sending His own Son in the
  likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for
  sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that
  the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in
  us, who do not walk according to the flesh but
  according to the Spirit.

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Atonement Relationship w/out Fear Romans 8

• Romans 815-23
• For you have not received a spirit of slavery
  leading to fear again, but you have received a
  spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out,
  "Abba! Father!" 16 The Spirit Himself testifies
  with our spirit that we are children of God, 17
  and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and
  fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer
  with Him so that we may also be glorified with
  Him.

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Atonement Relationship w/out Fear Romans 8

• Romans 8 18 For I consider that the sufferings
  of this present time are not worthy to be
  compared with the glory that is to be revealed to
  us. 19 For the anxious longing of the creation
  waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of
  God. 20 For the creation was subjected to
  futility, not willingly, but because of Him who
  subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation
  itself also will be set free from its slavery to
  corruption into the freedom of the glory of the
  children of God. 22 For we know that the whole
  creation groans and suffers the pains of
  childbirth together until now. 23 And not only
  this, but also we ourselves, having the first
  fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan
  within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our
  adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.

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Atonement Relationship w/out Fear Romans 8

• Romans 826-28
• In the same way the Spirit also helps our
  weakness for we do not know how to pray as we
  should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us
  with groanings too deep for words 27 and He
  who searches the hearts knows what the mind of
  the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the
  saints according to the will of God.
• 28 And we know that God causes all things
  to work together for good to those who love God,
  to those who are called according to His purpose.
  
• Romans 831-32
• What then shall we say to these things? If
  God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did
  not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for
  us all, how will He not also with Him freely give
  us all things?

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Atoning for Guilt and Fear

• I CANNOT
• God DID
• God DOES
• Dont Perform
• Dont Bargain or Manipulate (Nor let others to it
  to you)
• The Need Abba - If you being evil no how to
  give good gifts to your children, how much more
  does your heavenly father know how to give the
  Holy Spirit to those that ask him.

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Atonement and Death

• Hebrews 29
• But we do see Him who was made for a little
  while lower than the angels, namely, Jesus,
  because of the suffering of death crowned with
  glory and honor, so that by the grace of God He
  might taste death for everyone.
• Hebrews 214-15
• Therefore, since the children share in flesh
  and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of
  the same, that through death He might render
  powerless him who had the power of death, that
  is, the devil, 15 and might free those who
  through fear of death were subject to slavery all
  their lives.
• Hebrews 217
• Therefore, He had to be made like His
  brethren in all things, so that He might become a
  merciful and faithful high priest in things
  pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the
  sins of the people.

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Atonement and Judgment

• Hebrews 924-28
• For Christ did not enter a holy place made
  with hands, a mere copy of the true one, but into
  heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of
  God for us 25 nor was it that He would offer
  Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy
  place year by year with blood that is not his
  own. 26 Otherwise, He would have needed to
  suffer often since the foundation of the world
  but now once at the consummation of the ages He
  has been manifested to put away sin by the
  sacrifice of Himself. 27 And inasmuch as it is
  appointed for men to die once and after this
  comes judgment, 28 so Christ also, having been
  offered once to bear the sins of many, will
  appear a second time for salvation without
  reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.

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Atonement and Judgment

• The story of Czar Nicholas II
• So Great a DebtI cannot pay
• Paid in Full

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Atonement and Bondage

• Isaiah 426-7
• "I am the Lord, I have called You in
  righteousness,
• I will also hold You by the hand and watch over
  You,
• And I will appoint You as a covenant to the
  people,
• As a light to the nations,
• 7 To open blind eyes,
• To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
• And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

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Atonement and Bondage

• Luke 418
• "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
• Because He anointed Me to preach the gospel
  to the poor.
• He has sent Me to proclaim release to the
  captives,
• And recovery of sight to the blind,
• To set free those who are oppressed,
• John 836
• "So if the Son makes you free, you will be
  free indeed.

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Bondage?

• Matthew 1225-29
• And knowing their thoughts Jesus said to
  them, "Any kingdom divided against itself is laid
  waste and any city or house divided against
  itself will not stand. 26 "If Satan casts out
  Satan, he is divided against himself how then
  will his kingdom stand? 27 "If I by Beelzebul
  cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them
  out? For this reason they will be your judges.
  28 "But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of
  God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
  29 "Or how can anyone enter the strong man's
  house and carry off his property, unless he first
  binds the strong man? And then he will plunder
  his house.

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The Atonement and UsWhat does it mean?

• Romans 51-3
• For Me Personally
• Christ is identified with my Sinand God has no
  intention of blaming his Son!
• We arent simply tolerated, were ushered into
  the presence of God arm in arm with Jesus his Son!

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What does it mean?

• The Debt of Forgiveness is Paid
• Hebrews 1215
• See to it that no one comes short of the
  grace of God that no root of bitterness
  springing up causes trouble, and by it many be
  defiled

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What does it mean?

• If it isnt lived out in us, or in the Church,
  where will the world see it?
• Many years ago I was driven to the conclusion
  that the two major causes of emotional problems
  among evangelical Christians are these the
  failure to understand, receive and live out of
  Gods unconditional grace and forgiveness and
  the failure to give out that unconditional love,
  forgiveness, and grace to other people We read,
  we hear, we believe a good theology of grace.
  But thats not the way we live. The Good news of
  the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the levels
  of our emotions. - David Seamonds

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What does it mean?

• God rejoices. Not because the problems of the
  world have been solved, not because all of human
  pain and suffering have come to an end, nor
  because thousands of people have been converted
  and now praising him for his goodness. NO, God
  rejoices because one of his children who was lost
  has been found. -Henri Nouwen

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What does it mean?

• If Christs death for us and others for the
  forgiveness of sins is not enough, then what is?
• I have often said, I forgive you, but then
  even as I say the words, my heart remains angry
  or resentful. I still want to hear the story
  that tells me that I was right after all I
  still wanted to hear apologies I still wanted
  the satisfaction of receiving some praise in
  return if only for being so forgiving.