Staying at the Cross
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Staying at the Cross
Staying at the Cross
23 For I pass on to you what I received from the Lord himself. On the night when he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took some bread
24 and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and said, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
25 In the same way, he took the cup of wine after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant between God and his people—an agreement confirmed with my blood. Do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it.”
26 For every time you eat this bread and drink this cup, you are announcing the Lord’s death until he comes again.
14 As for me, may I never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. Because of that cross, my interest in this world has been crucified, and the world’s interest in me has also died.
The cross is and has to be central in the life of a believer.
and as we looked last week at the necessity of Jesus having to go to the cross we see why it has to stay central to our lives
We read this in Romans 8:21-23
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
you and I need to live with the cross at the center of our thinking because if we don’t we begin to think that we are good enough to make it on our own.
but Isaiah 64:6 tells us this
Isaiah 64:6 (NLT)
6 We are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags.
we always have to remember that with out the cross we are lost.
It is the work of Jesus on the cross that makes so many things in this life possible as a believer, if we would stay at the cross and live life in light of what was accomplished there 2000 years ago.
last week we talked about why was the cross necessary.
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
This week I want to talk about 3 things Jesus accomplished on the cross for you and I as believers.
1. Justification.
24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
1.
the action of showing something to be right or reasonable.
2.
the action of declaring or making righteous in the sight of God.
Justification is that gracious and judicial act of God whereby a soul is granted complete absolution from all guilt and a full release from the penalty of sin
Just is if you have not sinned.
Justification is a term that we hear in the Justice system.
and that is what Christ did for us on the cross
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
God credited our sin to Jesus on the Cross and credited to us the righteousness of Jesus.
For 33 years Jesus lived a sinless life and that righteous life was credited to us on the Cross.
Not because we deserve it but because we accept what Jesus did for us by faith .
22 We are made right with God by placing our faith in Jesus Christ. And this is true for everyone who believes, no matter who we are.
Our Justification is given because we accept what Jesus did. and if we fail to stay at the cross as we grow in our relationship with God.
We may begin to thing that the good things we do have more to do with us than with the work of Christ on the cross.
Read page 93 from the power of the cross.
2. Redemption is the second accomplishment
24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Redeem means to purchase through tha payment of a price.
The price of our salvation was the shed blood of Jesus Christ
On the Cross, Jesus redeemed us from the slave market of sin.
The Greek word for redemption in Romans 3:24 is apolytrosis,
which comes from two root words, lytron and apo. lytron means a release through the payment of a price, or ransom, the other root prefix apo, refers to a separation. Addint apo means this is a redemption at the most final level, a separation that destroys the union of two things and creates a distance between 2 things.
We see a picture of this in the old testament.
in Leviticus 16:21-22
5 Aaron must take from the community of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
6 “Aaron will present his own bull as a sin offering to purify himself and his family, making them right with the Lord.
7 Then he must take the two male goats and present them to the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle.
8 He is to cast sacred lots to determine which goat will be reserved as an offering to the Lord and which will carry the sins of the people to the wilderness of Azazel.
9 Aaron will then present as a sin offering the goat chosen by lot for the Lord.
10 The other goat, the scapegoat chosen by lot to be sent away, will be kept alive, standing before the Lord. When it is sent away to Azazel in the wilderness, the people will be purified and made right with the Lord.
11 “Aaron will present his own bull as a sin offering to purify himself and his family, making them right with the Lord. After he has slaughtered the bull as a sin offering,
12 he will fill an incense burner with burning coals from the altar that stands before the Lord. Then he will take two handfuls of fragrant powdered incense and will carry the burner and the incense behind the inner curtain.
13 There in the Lord’s presence he will put the incense on the burning coals so that a cloud of incense will rise over the Ark’s cover—the place of atonement—that rests on the Ark of the Covenant. If he follows these instructions, he will not die.
14 Then he must take some of the blood of the bull, dip his finger in it, and sprinkle it on the east side of the atonement cover. He must sprinkle blood seven times with his finger in front of the atonement cover.
15 “Then Aaron must slaughter the first goat as a sin offering for the people and carry its blood behind the inner curtain. There he will sprinkle the goat’s blood over the atonement cover and in front of it, just as he did with the bull’s blood.
16 Through this process, he will purify the Most Holy Place, and he will do the same for the entire Tabernacle, because of the defiling sin and rebellion of the Israelites.
17 No one else is allowed inside the Tabernacle when Aaron enters it for the purification ceremony in the Most Holy Place. No one may enter until he comes out again after purifying himself, his family, and all the congregation of Israel, making them right with the Lord.
18 “Then Aaron will come out to purify the altar that stands before the Lord. He will do this by taking some of the blood from the bull and the goat and putting it on each of the horns of the altar.
19 Then he must sprinkle the blood with his finger seven times over the altar. In this way, he will cleanse it from Israel’s defilement and make it holy.
20 “When Aaron has finished purifying the Most Holy Place and the Tabernacle and the altar, he must present the live goat.
21 He will lay both of his hands on the goat’s head and confess over it all the wickedness, rebellion, and sins of the people of Israel. In this way, he will transfer the people’s sins to the head of the goat. Then a man specially chosen for the task will drive the goat into the wilderness.
22 As the goat goes into the wilderness, it will carry all the people’s sins upon itself into a desolate land.
So her is what redemption does for you and me Lytorn secures our redemption from the subs committed before God. Apo means the penalty for those sins will not be coming back again because the penalty has been separated by a great distance.
Together apolytrosis is the complete, total and final redemption secured on the cross by Jesus Christ. on the cross, He not only paid the penalty for our ransom from sin, but he removed that penalty foru our sin.
12 He has removed our sins as far from us as the east is from the west.
The third accomplishment of the Cross is
3. propitiation
25 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,
Propitiation refers to the turning away of the wrath of God as the just judgment of our sin by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. “Propitiation is used in the New Testament to describe the pacifying, placating, or appeasing of God's wrath”
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
We see and example of this with the death angle in egypt.
The Blood of the lamb was applied to the door post to appease the full extent of God’s wrath.
24 And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him.
25 Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses’ feet, and said, “Surely you are a husband of blood to me!”
26 So He let him go. Then she said, “You are a husband of blood!”—because of the circumcision.
These stories should give us hope because they show us that God’s wrath can be averted and that one is able to step in and act on behalf of another to avert the wrath of God.
On the Cross Jesus turned the wrath of God from us onto Himself in order to be the propitiation for our sis as well as the sins of the whole world.
2 He himself is the sacrifice that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all the world.