Spiritual gifts part 46: In Christ, there's a way of forgiving - and a new way of living

Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Sunday,
October 31, 2010

Spiritual gifts part 46: In Christ, there's a way of forgiving - and a new way of living

We’ll find a new way of living,
We’ll find there’s a way of forgiving.

The kids today use the expression - A “do over”.

REV 21:5
And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new."

JER 13:23
“Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots?
Then you also can do good who are accustomed to doing evil.”

1CO 15:22

For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

The Doctrine of Spiritual Gifts

Point 2. The Giver of the Gifts: The Person and Work of God the Holy Spirit.

3. Efficacious Grace = the work or ministry of the Holy Spirit in making the faith in Jesus Christ of the spiritually dead person effective for eternal salvation.

God the Holy Spirit applies the benefits of the work done by our Savior on the cross (on behalf of the whole human race) to the individual who believes in Jesus for salvation.

Redemption - the price for our sins has been paid.
Expiation - the blood of Christ cleanses us from all guilt. The IOU has been canceled.

Propitiation - God the Father in His righteousness and justice is completely satisfied with the blood of Christ on your account.

Reconciliation - a permanent status of peace exists between you and God.

Redemption - the price for our sins has been paid.
Expiation - the blood of Christ cleanses us from all guilt. The IOU has been canceled.

Propitiation - God the Father in His righteousness and justice is completely satisfied with the blood of Christ on your account.

Reconciliation - a permanent status of peace exists between you and God.

Salvation had to:
Pay the price for sin
Cancel the penalty of sin
Satisfy the justice of God
End the war that man started against God

The blood of Christ - His substitutionary spiritual death on the cross - provided redemption, expiation, propitiation, and reconciliation for every man.

1JO 2:2
and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.

Redemption refers to the ransom paid on the Cross for our sins.

Expiation refers to the cancelled penalty by the blood of Christ.

Propitiation means that God is satisfied with the sacrifice of our Lord on the Cross

The spiritual death of Christ changed man’s former state of war into one of complete peace with a holy and just God.

This does not mean that all the world is universally saved, but that all may be saved.

In the position where the barrier once stood, Christ now stands as the only Mediator between God and man.

When a person believes in the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ, he receives from the Holy Spirit the reconciliation that God provided in Christ’s death.

 

 

The one who believes in Christ places his destiny wholly in Christ.

The justice of God is free to not only apply the complete salvation work of Christ to the believer - the benefits of redemption, expiation, propitiation, and reconciliation -

-but now also God is free to shower on this sinner the gift of righteousness and the abundance of grace, finally bringing that son or daughter to glory, complete in Christ.

Justification is the legal act of God whereby He declares the believer righteous because He has imputed to the believer His (God’s) own perfect righteousness.

At the moment of faith in Christ, God imputes His righteousness to the believer.

JOB 9:2 “In truth I know that this is so; But how can a man be in the right before God?”

God is the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

God makes a judicial pronouncement that such a believing person stands perfectly righteous in His sight because of the blood of Christ.

Redemption	PRICE
Expiation	CANCEL
Propitiation	SATISFIED
Reconciliation	PEACE
Justification	VINDICATE

Get rid of the bad by the cross and the blood of Christ.

Provide new things that are better than what had ever been known before.

He is able to do far more abundantly beyond anything we can think, ask, or imagine, EPH 3:20.

As the problems produced by our sinfulness are cleansed by the blood of Christ on His cross, so also these great blessings are made to be enjoyed by us in our new life in union with Christ in His Resurrection.

Get rid of the bad.

Bring on new and better, permanent things.

Salvation also includes an amazing set of new gifts and transformations that God performs on behalf of reconciled sinners.

The free gift takes us all the way to this legal status called “justification”.

Justification has to do with the crediting of something positive to our legal account.

His purpose in redeeming us, reconciling us, justifying us, is to set us up to reign in life through His Son the Lord Jesus Christ.

Church age believers are now the fortunate beneficiaries of God’s desire to demonstrate His graciousness on undeserving but believing creatures.

It starts with the dead ones.

It takes us to righteousness - Justification.

And it keeps going all the way to eternal life - that is Regeneration, and ultimately Glorification.