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The Propitiation For Our Sins 1 John. 4:10 “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” Jesus is our Shield

The Propitiation For Our Sins God is a “JUST” - God and demands Justice for Sins committed. That “justice” is satisfied through Christ. But how? For many years I heard the word “Propitiation” and never really understood what it really met to me a sinner or a Christian.

The Propitiation For Our Sins If we don’t understand it – How can it really mean anything to us or for that matter how can the death of Christ mean anything to us as it should? There is a paragraph in a book that I purposely purchased just for the sake of that Paragraph and how it relates to Propitiation and the Atonement. The book is “Great Doctrine of the Bible” by William Evans – Published by Moody Press.

The Propitiation For Our Sins “…Light and erroneous views of the atonement come from light and erroneous views of Sin. If sin is regarded as merely an offence against man, a weakness of human nature, a mere disease, rather than a rebellion, transgression, and enmity against God, therefore, something condemning and punishable, we shall not, of course, see any necessity for the atonement.” “…Light and erroneous views of the atonement come from light and erroneous views of Sin. If sin is regarded as merely an offence against man, a weakness of human nature, a mere disease, rather than a rebellion, transgression, and enmity against God, therefore, something condemning and punishable, we shall not, of course, see any necessity for the atonement.” (page 78) - William Evans, The Great Doctrines of the Bible

The Propitiation For Our Sins I. Sin? 1. Sin is a transgression of God’s Laws. I John 3:4 “Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 2. Sin elicits the wrath of God, sin is absolutely foreign to God's nature. He is all holy, when sin comes near to God, it is something that angers him. Sin separates us from God - Isaiah 59:1,2 1. “Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2. But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.”

The Propitiation For Our Sins 3. The Wage of Sin is death – Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” 4. God is a “JUST” God and demands Justice for Sins committed. Psalms 89: 13 “Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, [and] high is thy right hand. 14. Justice and judgment [are] the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.”

The Propitiation For Our Sins And it is a “fearful thing” to fall into the wrath of God. Hebrews 10:31 “[It is] a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Consider the following passages………

Consider the following passages…. Romans 1: * ¶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “BUT THE RIGHTEOUS man SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.” 18* For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 ¶ because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Continued…… Ephesians 5:3-6 3 “¶ But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints; 4* and there must be no filthiness and silly talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. 5* For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6* Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.”

Continued…….. Colossians 3:5-7 5* “¶ Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry. 6* For it is because of these things that the wrath of God will come upon the sons of disobedience, 7* and in them you also once walked, when you were living in them.”

The Propitiation For Our Sins I Peter 4:18 “And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?” 5. The wrath of God is against sin. And that wrath will occasionally be manifested in our current times as God puts His foot down and draws the line and says I will allow sin to go no further and what it is doing to siege the earth.

The Propitiation For Our Sins 6. The wrath of God will be revealed most fully when Jesus comes again and there will be the permanent judgment. The Bible says that those who know the Lord will of course go to live with Him and yet at the same time others will be cast into a place that the Bible calls in the original language Gehenna. Matthew 25:23 - Revelation 20:13,14 respectively

The Propitiation For Our Sins II. God’s wrath is not like man’s wrath because- Number 1, it is always judicial. It is the wrath of the all perfect judge being administered in judgment. Roman 2:5 “But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God,”

The Propitiation For Our Sins God's judgment and the wrath that will come from it is going to be righteous. Secondly - God's wrath is going to be something that men or women choose for themselves. Ephesians 5:6 says "... the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience."--- the ones who choose disobedience. People will be lost because they choose to sin. And when I choose to sin, then the wage of that sin is death. Romans 6:23 tells me and that death literally means a separation from God and it is an eternal separation from God.

The Propitiation For Our Sins And that illustrates the problem we all have because Romans 3:23 says, “all have sinned and fallen short of God's glory”. Man is in a terrible state. And that's where the word/concept/meaning of "Propitiation" comes in.

The Propitiation For Our Sins III.You see God doesn't want to see a single one of us suffer from His wrath, so God has made available another choice for man. II Peter 3:9 “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

The Propitiation For Our Sins John 3:36 36* “He who believes in the Son has eternal life; but he who does not obey the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” Romans 5:8,9 8* “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9* Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.”

The Propitiation For Our Sins When we choose to believe in and obey Jesus, when we choose to obey the gospel, when we come up from the waters of baptism as a Christian and follow the Lord, WE are saved from God's wrath.

The Propitiation For Our Sins Propitiation literally means to deflect wrath. It literally means to let it bounce off. In another form the word was used to define a shield that a warrior would take into battle. Jesus deflected the wrath that is due us. He is our propitiation.

The Propitiation For Our Sins He APPEASES God’s sense of Justice by taking our sin, our guilt of sin upon Himself thereby deflecting God’s Wrath from us to Him by His death on the Cross saving us from eternal death in Hell. I Peter 2:24 “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”

The Propitiation For Our Sins 1 John. 2:1 2 “and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.” This is something very special. He was and is the shield, he was and is the deflector of wrath for my sin and your sin, for the sins of the whole world.

The Propitiation For Our Sins Romans 3: * “being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; 25* whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; 26* for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”

The Propitiation For Our Sins 1 John. 4:10 10 “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” Jesus not only paid my debt to God, He shields me from the wrath that God is aiming at my sin.

The Propitiation For Our Sins 2 Corinthians 5:21 21 “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” The one who had no sin became sin. He took the wrath. He deflected it away so that you and I could live.

The Propitiation For Our Sins SO Now - What does the word PROPITIATION mean to you?

What Must One do To Live? In Acts 2 the people heard (Romans 10:17) the Gospel Message, they believed (Mark 16:16), what they heard and asked, “Men and brethren “What shall we do?”, they were told to Repent and be Baptized (Vs. 38) in order to wash away their sins (Acts 22:16), their baptism would have followed their Confession of their belief in Christ as the Living Son of God (Acts 8:36, 37 & 38). Once this has been accomplished, one has “put on Christ” and is now At-One with God, God now sees you through the Blood (Appeasement) of His Son. You can then be made Alive. Don’t You want LIVE?