The Gospel: Christ's Provision (Part 2)

Christ’s Provision

Sin: Falls on the sinner OR Christ

• It was foreshadowed by the OT sacrificial system—Leviticus 1

• The lamb is personified in the prophets—Isaiah 53:1-6

• This is clarified by John the Baptist, John 1:29

• In the NT epistles is the doctrinal statement on how God saves—I Corinthians 15:1-5

Propitiation

• The term used to speak of the success of Christ’s death for our sins

• It means—a satisfaction

• God the Father looked at the death of Christ for our sins and was SATISFIED (propitiated)

The human appropriation of salvation

• God’s condition—FAITH (believe): Acts 16:27-34, Romans 3:28

• Satan turns simplicity into complexity, 2 Corinthians 11:3-4: 1) Faith plus teaching; 2) By defining faith in terms of works—faith and grace redefined, for example . . .

o Commitment

o Surrender

o Lordship

o Repentance

*With so little as faith, God gives so much as eternal life.