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1
How were people saved before the cross?
  • On one hand we know people were saved.

2
How were people saved before the cross?
  • On one hand we know people were saved.
  • We read of Enoch, Noah and Abraham being saved
    before the giving of the Law of Moses. (Heb
    115-8)

3
How were people saved before the cross?
  • (Hebrews 115-8 NKJV) By faith Enoch was taken
    away so that he did not see death, and was not
    found, because God had taken him for before he
    was taken he had this testimony, that he pleased
    God. 6 But without faith it is impossible to
    please Him, for he who comes to God must believe
    that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those
    who diligently seek Him.

4
How were people saved before the cross?
  • 7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of
    things not yet seen, moved with godly fear,
    prepared an ark for the saving of his household,
    by which he condemned the world and became heir
    of the righteousness which is according to faith.
    8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to
    go out to the place which he would receive as an
    inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where
    he was going.

5
How were people saved before the cross?
  • We also read of Samuel, David and Gideon saved
    while under the Law of Moses. (Heb 1132)

6
How were people saved before the cross?
  • (Hebrews 1132 NKJV) And what more shall I say?
    For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and
    Barak and Samson and Jephthah, also of David and
    Samuel and the prophets

7
How were people saved before the cross?
  • It is my prayer that our study will bring us a
    greater appreciation of the nature of God and
    what He has done for us.

8
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • Men of faith were instructed to pray for
    forgiveness.

9
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • Men of faith were instructed to pray for
    forgiveness.
  • Moses prayed for Israel. (Ex 3232-33)

10
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Exodus 3232-33 NKJV) Yet now, if You will
    forgive their sin but if not, I pray, blot me
    out of Your book which You have written. 33
    And the LORD said to Moses, Whoever has sinned
    against Me, I will blot him out of My book.

11
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • Solomon prayed for his people. (1 Kgs 833-34)

12
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (1 Kings 833-34 NKJV) When Your people Israel
    are defeated before an enemy because they have
    sinned against You, and when they turn back to
    You and confess Your name, and pray and make
    supplication to You in this temple, 34 then
    hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your
    people Israel, and bring them back to the land
    which You gave to their fathers.

13
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • Daniel prayed for Israel. (Dan 919)

14
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Daniel 919 NKJV) O Lord, hear! O Lord,
    forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for
    Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your
    people are called by Your name.

15
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • David prayed for his personal forgiveness. (Psa
    2516-18)

16
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Psalms 2516-18 NKJV) Turn Yourself to me, and
    have mercy on me, For I am desolate and
    afflicted. 17 The troubles of my heart have
    enlarged Bring me out of my distresses! 18
    Look on my affliction and my pain, And forgive
    all my sins.

17
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • God's nature is described as forgiving in the Old
    Testament.

18
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • God's nature is described as forgiving in the Old
    Testament.
  • What would Micah's readers conclude? (Mic 718-19)

19
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Micah 718-19 NKJV) Who is a God like You,
    Pardoning iniquity And passing over the
    transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He
    does not retain His anger forever, Because He
    delights in mercy. 19 He will again have
    compassion on us, And will subdue our iniquities.
    You will cast all our sins Into the depths of the
    sea.

20
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • Those under the Law were urged to pray to a God
    that will forgive. (Psa 865)

21
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Psalms 865 NKJV) For You, Lord, are good, and
    ready to forgive, And abundant in mercy to all
    those who call upon You.

22
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • Those who repented were promised forgiveness by
    God Himself.

23
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • Those who repented were promised forgiveness by
    God Himself.
  • These verses are plain! (Isa 556-7 2 Chron
    714)

24
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Isaiah 556-7 NKJV) Seek the LORD while He may
    be found, Call upon Him while He is near. 7 Let
    the wicked forsake his way, And the unrighteous
    man his thoughts Let him return to the LORD, And
    He will have mercy on him And to our God, For He
    will abundantly pardon.

25
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (2 Chronicles 714 NKJV) if My people who are
    called by My name will humble themselves, and
    pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked
    ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will
    forgive their sin and heal their land.

26
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • Some have tried to make a distinction between
    forgiveness and atonement. When one has
    atonement they also have forgiveness. (Lev 435,
    510,13,16,18)

27
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Leviticus 435 NKJV) He shall remove all its
    fat, as the fat of the lamb is removed from the
    sacrifice of the peace offering. Then the priest
    shall burn it on the altar, according to the
    offerings made by fire to the LORD. So the priest
    shall make atonement for his sin that he has
    committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

28
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Leviticus 510 NKJV) And he shall offer the
    second as a burnt offering according to the
    prescribed manner. So the priest shall make
    atonement on his behalf for his sin which he has
    committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

29
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Leviticus 513 NKJV) The priest shall make
    atonement for him, for his sin that he has
    committed in any of these matters and it shall
    be forgiven him. The rest shall be the priests
    as a grain offering.

30
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Leviticus 516 NKJV) And he shall make
    restitution for the harm that he has done in
    regard to the holy thing, and shall add one-fifth
    to it and give it to the priest. So the priest
    shall make atonement for him with the ram of the
    trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

31
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Leviticus 518 NKJV) And he shall bring to the
    priest a ram without blemish from the flock, with
    your valuation, as a trespass offering. So the
    priest shall make atonement for him regarding his
    ignorance in which he erred and did not know it,
    and it shall be forgiven him.

32
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • Forgiveness was claimed in the Old Testament.

33
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • How was this accomplished? (Psa 325 Psa 10312)

34
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Psalms 325 NKJV) I acknowledged my sin to
    You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said,
    I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,
    And You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

35
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • (Psalms 10312 NKJV) As far as the east is from
    the west, So far has He removed our
    transgressions from us.

36
Forgiveness as Described in the Old Testament
  • God's word was plain to His people. Now let us
    gain a better understanding from the New
    Testament.

37
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • God had a plan that required a New Testament.
    (Jer 3131-34)

38
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Jeremiah 3131-34 NKJV) Behold, the days are
    coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new
    covenant with the house of Israel and with the
    house of Judah 32 not according to the
    covenant that I made with their fathers in the
    day that I took them by the hand to lead them out
    of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they
    broke, though I was a husband to them, says the
    LORD.

39
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • 33 But this is the covenant that I will make
    with the house of Israel after those days, says
    the LORD I will put My law in their minds, and
    write it on their hearts and I will be their
    God, and they shall be My people.

40
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • 34 No more shall every man teach his neighbor,
    and every man his brother, saying, Know the
    LORD, for they all shall know Me, from the least
    of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD.
    For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin
    I will remember no more.

41
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • The people of God under this testament will be
    forgiven.

42
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • The distinction here in how you become a child of
    God.

43
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • The distinction here in how you become a child of
    God.
  • The Law of Moses was not given to provide
    salvation by itself.

44
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • The distinction here in how you become a child of
    God.
  • The Law of Moses was not given to provide
    salvation by itself.
  • There is no justification under a system of law
    alone! (Rom 320)

45
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Romans 320 NKJV) Therefore by the deeds of
    the law no flesh will be justified in His sight,
    for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

46
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • God's purpose of the law was to prepare them for
    a Savior, not be one in itself. (Gal
    311,17-18)

47
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Galatians 311 NKJV) But that no one is
    justified by the law in the sight of God is
    evident, for the just shall live by faith.

48
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Galatians 317-18 NKJV) And this I say, that
    the law, which was four hundred and thirty years
    later, cannot annul the covenant that was
    confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should
    make the promise of no effect. 18 For if the
    inheritance is of the law, it is no longer of
    promise but God gave it to Abraham by promise.

49
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • Abraham was not saved by the law. How do we know
    this? He lived before the Law of Moses! (Rom
    41-4)

50
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Romans 41-4 NKJV) What then shall we say that
    Abraham our father has found according to the
    flesh? 2 For if Abraham was justified by works,
    he has something to boast about, but not before
    God. 3 For what does the Scripture say?
    Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to
    him for righteousness. 4 Now to him who works,
    the wages are not counted as grace but as debt.

51
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • Why does law not save? Because as with any law
    the way to salvation is to do all without fail.
    (Gal 310 53)

52
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Galatians 310 NKJV) For as many as are of the
    works of the law are under the curse for it is
    written, Cursed is everyone who does not
    continue in all things which are written in the
    book of the law, to do them.

53
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Galatians 53 NKJV) And I testify again to
    every man who becomes circumcised that he is a
    debtor to keep the whole law.

54
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • Animal sacrifices under the Old Testament did not
    provide forgiveness in themselves.

55
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • Animal sacrifices under the Old Testament did not
    provide forgiveness in themselves.
  • While God commanded these things, their blood was
    not the source of appeasing God's wrath. (Heb
    104)

56
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Hebrews 104 NKJV) For it is not possible that
    the blood of bulls and goats could take away
    sins.

57
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • The sacrifices had to be repeated suggesting
    inadequacy. (Heb 1011-12)

58
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Hebrews 1011-12 NKJV) And every priest stands
    ministering daily and offering repeatedly the
    same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
    12 But this Man, after He had offered one
    sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right
    hand of God,

59
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • Forgiveness to any man who ever lived must come
    through the blood of Christ.

60
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • Forgiveness to any man who ever lived must come
    through the blood of Christ.
  • Jesus was the only sufficient sacrifice in all of
    history. (1 Pt 118-19 Heb 924-28)

61
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (1 Peter 118-19 NKJV) knowing that you were
    not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver
    or gold, from your aimless conduct received by
    tradition from your fathers, 19 but with the
    precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
    blemish and without spot.

62
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Hebrews 924-28 NKJV) For Christ has not
    entered the holy places made with hands, which
    are copies of the true, but into heaven itself,
    now to appear in the presence of God for us 25
    not that He should offer Himself often, as the
    high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year
    with blood of another

63
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • 26 He then would have had to suffer often since
    the foundation of the world but now, once at the
    end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin
    by the sacrifice of Himself. 27 And as it is
    appointed for men to die once, but after this the
    judgment, 28 so Christ was offered once to bear
    the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for
    Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin,
    for salvation.

64
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • Those under the Old Testament law were forgiven
    by the blood of Christ. (Heb 915)

65
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • (Hebrews 915 NKJV) And for this reason He is
    the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of
    death, for the redemption of the transgressions
    under the first covenant, that those who are
    called may receive the promise of the eternal
    inheritance.

66
Additional Light from the New Testament
  • Why is there a controversy then on this question?

67
Some problems Examined
  • There are two verses that may indicate another
    possible conclusion.

68
Some problems Examined
  • There are two verses that may indicate another
    possible conclusion.
  • What did it mean for God to "pass over" sins?
    (Rom 325-26)

69
Some problems Examined
  • (Romans 325-26 NKJV) whom God set forth as a
    propitiation by His blood, through faith, to
    demonstrate His righteousness, because in His
    forbearance God had passed over the sins that
    were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at
    the present time His righteousness, that He might
    be just and the justifier of the one who has
    faith in Jesus.

70
Some problems Examined
  • Were the sins in the Old Testament "rolled
    forward?" (Heb 101-4)

71
Some problems Examined
  • (Hebrews 101-4 NKJV) For the law, having a
    shadow of the good things to come, and not the
    very image of the things, can never with these
    same sacrifices, which they offer continually
    year by year, make those who approach perfect.
    2 For then would they not have ceased to be
    offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would
    have had no more consciousness of sins.

72
Some problems Examined
  • 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder
    of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible
    that the blood of bulls and goats could take away
    sins.

73
Some problems Examined
  • Some possible explanations to these passages.

74
Some problems Examined
  • Some possible explanations to these passages.
  • Because of the number of sacrifices it was
    evident that they were insufficient.

75
Some problems Examined
  • Still under these sacrifices there was
    forgiveness. Consider the promise associated with
    the day of atonement. (Num 1527-28)

76
Some problems Examined
  • (Numbers 1527-28 NKJV) And if a person sins
    unintentionally, then he shall bring a female
    goat in its first year as a sin offering. 28
    So the priest shall make atonement for the
    person who sins unintentionally, when he sins
    unintentionally before the LORD, to make
    atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him.

77
Some problems Examined
  • Rather than suggesting that sins are rolled
    forward it is pointing out the inadequacy of
    these sacrifices by themselves.

78
Some problems Examined
  • Rather than suggesting that sins are rolled
    forward it is pointing out the inadequacy of
    these sacrifices by themselves.
  • The same could be said about the sacrifices given
    before the law.

79
Some problems Examined
  • Rather than suggesting that sins are rolled
    forward it is pointing out the inadequacy of
    these sacrifices by themselves.
  • The same could be said about the sacrifices given
    before the law.
  • When did those in the Old Testament find
    forgiveness?

80
Some problems Examined
  • Rather than suggesting that sins are rolled
    forward it is pointing out the inadequacy of
    these sacrifices by themselves.
  • The same could be said about the sacrifices given
    before the law.
  • When did those in the Old Testament find
    forgiveness?
  • If Jesus had not died then how could they be
    forgiven?

81
Some problems Examined
  • God is independent of time. He knows the future
    and can speak of things in a present tense as not
    yet occurring. (Rom 417)

82
Some problems Examined
  • (Romans 417 NKJV) (as it is written, I have
    made you a father of many nations) in the
    presence of Him whom he believed God, who gives
    life to the dead and calls those things which do
    not exist as though they did

83
Some problems Examined
  • If forgiveness was not realized then at that time
    then I cannot know how men like Moses or Isaiah
    could appear in His presence. (Isa 63-7)

84
Some problems Examined
  • (Isaiah 63-7 NKJV) And one cried to another
    and said Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts
    The whole earth is full of His glory! 4 And
    the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of
    him who cried out, and the house was filled with
    smoke.

85
Some problems Examined
  • 5 So I said Woe is me, for I am undone!
    Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I dwell
    in the midst of a people of unclean lips For my
    eyes have seen the King, The LORD of hosts. 6
    Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in
    his hand a live coal which he had taken with the
    tongs from the altar.

86
Some problems Examined
  • 7 And he touched my mouth with it, and said
    Behold, this has touched your lips Your
    iniquity is taken away, And your sin purged.

87
Some problems Examined
  • If forgiveness was not present then how could
    God's presence and help be present? (Isa 591-2)

88
Some problems Examined
  • (Isaiah 591-2 NKJV) Behold, the Lords hand is
    not shortened, That it cannot save Nor His ear
    heavy, That it cannot hear. 2 But your
    iniquities have separated you from your God And
    your sins have hidden His face from you, So that
    He will not hear.

89
Some problems Examined
  • How did men before the cross find forgiveness?
  • The same way we do, by faith. (Rom 43-8, 16)

90
Some problems Examined
  • How did men before the cross find forgiveness?
  • The same way we do, by faith. (Rom 43-8, 16)

91
Some problems Examined
  • (Romans 43-8 NKJV) For what does the Scripture
    say? Abraham believed God, and it was accounted
    to him for righteousness. 4 Now to him who
    works, the wages are not counted as grace but as
    debt. 5 But to him who does not work but
    believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his
    faith is accounted for righteousness,

92
Some problems Examined
  • 6 just as David also describes the blessedness
    of the man to whom God imputes righteousness
    apart from works 7 Blessed are those whose
    lawless deeds are forgiven, And whose sins are
    covered 8 Blessed is the man to whom the LORD
    shall not impute sin.

93
Some problems Examined
  • (Romans 416 NKJV) Therefore it is of faith
    that it might be according to grace, so that the
    promise might be sure to all the seed, not only
    to those who are of the law, but also to those
    who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the
    father of us all

94
Some problems Examined
  • What are you doing with your faith?

95
Some problems Examined
  • What are you doing with your faith?
  • Let each of us be thankful for the marvelous
    provisions of the cross of Christ!

96
Some problems Examined
  • This must be the focus of our happiness. (Gal
    614)

97
Some problems Examined
  • (Galatians 614 NKJV) But God forbid that I
    should boast except in the cross of our Lord
    Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been
    crucified to me, and I to the world.

98
Some problems Examined
  • Our lives must be fully given to such a Savior.
    (Gal 220-21)

99
Some problems Examined
  • (Galatians 220-21 NKJV) I have been crucified
    with Christ it is no longer I who live, but
    Christ lives in me and the life which I now live
    in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,
    who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do
    not set aside the grace of God for if
    righteousness comes through the law, then Christ
    died in vain.
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