1. Friends & Family Day 2017
September 10th

2. 1My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. 2He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 JOHN 2:1-2

3. Propitiation was a sacrificial act which appeased a powerful god.
Christianity stole this term and flipped it upside down.
PROPITIATION

4. 4Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Psalm 51:4
WHO IS APPEASED?

5. IS JESUS SAVING US FROM GOD?
Who hurts you when you punch a wall?
IS JESUS SAVING US FROM GOD?

6. 8I will cleanse them from all the guilt of their sin against me, and I will forgive all the guilt of their sin and rebellion against me. Jeremiah 33:8
WHAT IS SIN?

7. … through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. … Romans 3:21-26
WHAT DOES JESUS DO?

8. What happens when you punch a wall?
WHAT IF I DON’T WANT HIM?

9. Jesus, Our Propitiation
Pagan Propitiation: Throw someone into the volcano to make God happy so he won’t hurt us.
Christian Propitiation: God, who can suffer no harm, became flesh to suffer the harm we have inflicted on ourselves.
Christ is the perfect revelation of the Love of God.
Jesus, Our Propitiation