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How can you know you are saved:?
What is our problem?
Why do we need to be saved?
Saved from what?
The obvious answer is simple: Sin.
Sin is transgression of the law, sin alienates us from God.
So if we are going to be saved then God has to do something about sin.
However, that is not all that the problem.
Yes our sin needs to new belt with sufficiently, but at the same time, because of our sin we have stored sup wrath.
So really there are 2 problems we face: Sin itself and the consequences of that sin, which is God’s righteous wrath and indignation at us mere creatures who decided to defy the almighty creator.
Now you might ask: How do we know that both of these are actual problems?
Because God himself says so.
In the OT sacrificial system that God gave His people, God gives therm 2 categories or types of sacrifices.
One of these types is to solve the sin problem and the other type is to solve the “wrath” problem.
And God gave each of these sacrifices a different name.
The first type of sacrifice is called Expiation.
In Hebrew expiation is referred to as Kipper - Atonement.
And what we see from God is that these expiation sacrifices were directed at the problem of sin.
The prefix “ex” means “from” or “out of”.
And as you will see, the object of all expiate sacrifices is sin itself.
You will find the phrase “for sin..” throughout the bible.
Expiation is an offering FOR SIN.
Again note that the sacrifice was literally “for sin” - Expiation.
But what about the other problem?
God’s wrath against our sin and defiance?
For that God called for a propitiation sacrifice.
EX-piation means from.
Pro-pitiation means?
FOR.
Expiation sacrifices were so God’s people would be saved FROM sin.
Propitiation sacrifices were so God;’s people would be FOR or “right” WITH GOD Himself.
The best OT example of a propitiation sacrifice is without a doubt the passover.
The Lamb that was slain, was it slain to remove sin or what it slain to bring protection from wrath?
Lets look what God says:
Notice that there is not a single reference to sin.
The object of the propitiatory sacrifice is not sin but God himself.
Probably the best example of BOTH expiation for sin and Propitiation for God is seen in the ordinance of the scape goat.
On the day of atonement the high priest would take 2 goats.
On the one goat he would lay his hand and transfer all of Israels sin onto the goat.
The goat was then driven out of the tent into the wilderness never to be seen again.
This was a representation of the expiation of sin.
The other goat however, was slain and its blood sprinkled on the tent - drawing from the passover lamb.
This is an example of propitiation.
The problem however was that even although the sacrifices were properly directed to each of these 2 problems, the “quality” of the sacrifices themselves was unable to permanently and completely solve the problems.
They were plasters on a wound that actually needed stitches.
So here is what we need if we are ever going to be saved:
We need an expiation sacrifice so powerful that sin cannot get past it.
It not only needs to remove the sin, but also prevent sin from ever returning.
And on top of that:
We need a propitiation sacrifice so powerful that it will once and for all and forever satisfy God’s righteous wrath against us.
What can possibly accomplish this impossible task?
Well, we are given a HUGE hint very early on in the Gospel records, when Jesus went to the Jordan River to be baptised by John, God actually gives us “spoilers”.
First:
When John sees Jesus coming what does John exclaim?
What does John say Jesus will do?
Take away the sin of the world.
What is that kind of sacrifice called?
Expiation.
So we see expiation in Jesus Christ.
But we also see something else:
When Jesus was baptised and came out the water, the Holy Spirit came on him and the Father said something.
What did the Father say to the Son?
What this tells us is that the Son is pleasing, that is, satisfying to the Father.
So very early in the life of Jesus Christ we see that Jesus is going to be that ultimate sacrifices that both expiates sin and propitiates God.
Expiation:
How do we know that Jesus as a sacrifice was sufficient to fully and forever expiate the records of our sins?
Well, because that what the bible says he did!
Church, for those who have faith in Jesus Christ, so perfect was his sacrifice on an expiated level that there exists not a single record of our sins.
The Lion from the Tribe of Judah not only expiated our sins, but now stands on guard roaring with such Holy Fire that the Tempter himself can no longer claim us.
This verse is all about expiation, “for our sins” and so powerful is this sacrifice that it literally “delivers us from this present evil world”.
Propitiation:
What about propitiation?
Well the bible says plainly:
To the Father Jesus is the Holy and Perfect Lamb of God.
That same Lamb that the Father said: “This is my beloved Son in whom i am well pleased”.
When this holy Lamb was offered up as a sacrifice on Calvary, the Father justice was fully and forever satisfied.
the result?
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