Let's Reconnect
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You become what you behold.
Love and Justice
Love and Justice
The atonement required God’s character, not just part of it but all of it.
Love of God
Love of God
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Justice of God
Justice of God
He could have spared the Angels
4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;
Luke 24:25–26 (ESV)
25 And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”
26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
You become what you behold
You become what you behold
what do you favor more, God’s love or justice?
Focusing on Love
come down and dwell with others.
17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
Called to suffer on another’s behalf
Don’t judge
37 “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Focusing on Justice
Jesus is the Judge
30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
Judge the church
57 “And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?
We are called to make judgements within the church of what is right.
12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? 13 God judges those outside. “Purge the evil person from among you.”
Focus on all love results in Hyper Grace - All Love
Focus on all judgement Legalism - All Works
We are called to be Image Bearers
We are called to be Image Bearers
both the Love and Justice of God
David when confronted with his sin, wanted judgement for the other man, and accepted judgement for himself.
Atonement requires Christ to be actively Obedient
19 For as by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience the many will be made righteous.
30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
We don’t just need forgiveness, we need his righteousness.
Passive Obedience
Passive Obedience
suffered and died for us.
a. suffering for His whole Life
b. the pain of the cross
pain of the cross
pain of bearing sin
Abandonment
Bearing the wrath of God
3 He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
28 so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.