DEEP CHURCH Lent 2018 Week 4 ‘Proxy Server’: ‘He was pierced for our transgressions’
DEEP CHURCH Lent 2018 Week 4 HE was pierced for OUR transgressions
Let’s recap: Anselm – Restitution Aquinas – Punishment
Ps.85:10: ‘Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.’
The Cross and Christology
Propitiation Redemption Justification Reconciliation
Substitution is essential
The Bible OT : ‘He was pierced for our transgressions’ NT : ‘Christ died for our sins’
‘Christ suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God’ 1 Peter 3:18
The Weight of Sin and the Holiness of God
Ps. 85:10 2 Cor. 5:19
‘GOD was in CHRIST reconciling the world to himself and NOT COUNTING man’s sin against him’ ( 2 Cor. 5:18)
Christ bears the WEIGHT of our sin
The cross as a sacrifice
‘Christ gave himself for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.’ Eph. 5:2
OT and sacrifice
NT and the sacrifice of Christ on the cross
The Passover
The Passover in the New T estament
God on the cross
The Suffering Servant
The Last Supper
‘Made sin’ for us
Redeemed from the curse
We become the righteousness of God
Conclusion: A sinless Jesus died as a substitute for sinful man
God meets His own demands because only He can
The Father gave the Son and the Son gives himself to the Father for the human race
Holy Love
God is love and cannot deny Himself
Philippians 2: 6-8
‘We are the church of God which he bought with his OWN blood’ Acts 20:28
God-made-man-in-Christ suffers and dies on the cross
Divine love triumphs over divine wrath by divine self-sacrifice
The Cross: simultaneously an act of Punishment and Amnesty • Severity and Grace • Justice and Mercy •
‘If sin is man substituting himself for God, then salvation is God substituting himself for man on the cross’
Q & A
DEEP CHURCH Next week: ‘Crawling off the altar: living the cross- shaped life’
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