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Atonement
/(Hebrews 9:11-14)/
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*Introduction:*
I want to accomplish two things from this study of the blood of Christ.
One – I want those who are members of the Church of Christ to have a since of joy of being in Christ Jesus.
We are among the most blessed people that have ever lived.
What a joy it is to just say I am in Christ Jesus.
To lay down at night and to sleep a sleep of peace and to know that “all things work together for the good of them that love the Lord.”
Secondly – If you are here tonight and you are not in Christ Jesus, I want you to decide that “ I have put it off too long and I want to be where salvation is.”
Remember, salvation is not a matter of your disposition.
It is not a matter of your goodness.
There are a lot of people who are good people, but are not saved.
You will never go to heaven upon human achievement.
It is not about your disposition.
It is about your position.
You are either in or outside of Christ.
If you are in Christ (you are where salvation is)
If you are outside of Christ (you don’t have Christ and you are without God in the world)
It is important that you understand something about salvation.
! Atonement
I want you to appreciate something about the atoning blood of Jesus.
*Define: Atonement* (Set at one) (Two are enemies)
Something has happen in a relationship where two friends have become enemies.
Something must be done to make amends and make the two enemies friends.
(How can two walk together except they agree?)
So these two enemies become friends again (on the same road~/ on the same page)
Atonement means that something is done to make enemies friends.
Atonement means I can do something that can take somebody whom I have offended and cause us to be together again.
*Problem:*
It is alright if I can do something to make amends.
But what if I can’t?
Can you imagine the problem that a person has when they know they have offended somebody and they would like to make amends
They would like to make it right, but they don’t have the ability to do so.
! Illustration: Old man
I begin to appreciate why he was willing to give to anybody and help anybody.
He was trying to make amends.
I understood why he was so willing to do anything and everything.
He was trying to make amends.
I understood why he was at the church building everytime the doors opened.
He was trying to make amends.
I understood why he never said an unkind word about anybody.
Why he was so forgiving, why he was so willing to do everything he could do.
He was trying to make amends.
As he thought about dying he said, “let me go to jail.”
Maybe going to jail will make it right.
Take me down and turn me in to the sheriff.
Let the authorities take me.
I think he would have poured out his life if he could have done anything to make amends.
*Point:*
The person he needed to make amends to was died.
There are times when you cannot make amends.
When you cannot atone for something you’ve done.
Now, if you see that let’s look at the text.
The Hebrew writer needs to show us that an atonement needs to happen.
Somebody has been offended.
Somebody has been hurt.
Somebody’s heart has been broken.
Somebody who didn’t deserve to be wronged has been wronged.
An atonement needs to take place.
The making of amends needs to happen.
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! Read: Hebrews 9:1-5
Verse 5 gives us the first hint that an atonement needs to be made.
The Ark of the Covenant
That golden box in which were the tables of the Ten Commandments
Those tablets of stone where the finger of God had written the Ten Commandments
*Point:*
This box was 3ft 9in long, 2ft 3in wide, 2ft 3in high, overlaid with gold.
On that box that was overlaid with gold was the mercy seat
And at each end of the mercy seat was a figure of an angel
Who by rank are known as cherubs.
*Angel Ranks:*
angels, archangels, cherubims, seraphims, principalities, powers, thrones, dominions, virtues
In this golden box were the tables of God’s law.
If you tread upon God’s law, you offend God.
You hurt God.
You injure God.
Every lawbreaker deserves to die.
That’s why the Ten Commandments were such, if you broke the law, You Died!!!
Here is God’s law in the box and the cherubs on top of the box
*Role of Cherub:* Execute God’s wrath on those who offended
If you broke God’s law, the cherub was the administrator of God’s retribution.
If you did something against God, the cherub would rain down God’s wrath upon you.
! Example: Man in the garden ~/ Sodom & Gomorrah (Cherub – Trail of Lightening)
! Symbolism
Here is God’s Law.
Here are the administrators of wrath upon those who break God’s law.
The cherub represents those who would administer punishment
The law represented that which you should not tread on.
But we are all lawbreakers (All have sinned…)
By right the cherub should rain down God’s wrath upon every one of us as lawbreakers.
BUT, there was something between the cherub and the law of God.
That was called the mercy seat.
The mercy seat was between those lawbreakers and those who would cause God’s retribution to come down on them.
The mercy seat is what we need because we cannot atone.
God is so clear.
When God gets ready to show you something, He makes it so clear.
! Illustration: Adam needed somebody
God brought every animal to Adam to see what he would call them
(God didn’t need Adam to name those animals)
(Cow ~/ Bull) (Mare ~/ Stallion) (Lion ~/ Lioness)
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