2. Our Suffering Substitue
2:24-25

3. Christian Living in a Hostile World
Theme
Christian Living in a Hostile World

4. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
…The Lord Jesus, on the night he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, "This is my body, which is for you; do this in remembrance of me.“…

5. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
…In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me." For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.

6. 1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

7. 1 Peter 2:25
For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

8. Isaiah 53:4
Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows…

9. Isaiah 53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

10. Isaiah 53:6
…and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

11. Romans 3:24-25
and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith…

12. Propitiation
A sacrifice that bears God’s wrath to the end and in so doing changes God’s wrath toward us into favor.
(Grudem)

13. Romans 3:24-25
…This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.

14. Romans 6:4
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.

15. Scott Bartchy
Most persons in slavery were treated well; they had been born in the house of their owner and they had been trained to perform important domestic, industrial, business, or public tasks

16. 1st Century Slavery A Separate Social Class Primary Work Force
Not Race-Based
Both Skilled & Unskilled
Owned Property & Follow Traditions
Paths to Freedom