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Propitiation
God the Father Was Satisfied
by Jesus Christ’s Work on the Cross.
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Listen up! Listen up! We have an awesome God who has taken
care of our sin problem! We don’t, in fact we can’t, make up to
God the Father for our sins! We can’t satisfy His holiness. But
don’t worry! Our Lord Jesus Christ satisfied or
propitiated God’s holiness
for us! His holiness is His righteousness (goodness) and justice.
God is 100% good and 100% just. What a Friend we have! What a God
we have! Propitiation frees
the justice of God to give anyone who believes in Christ one-half
of divine holiness, the righteousness of God. Believers have the
very righteousness of God because God the Father has been
propitiated (satisfied)!
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Romans
3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
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God’s holiness
is perfect and totally separates Him from all that is evil or
sinful. His righteousness condemned sin and approved the work of
Jesus Christ on the cross. In His justice, God the Father imputed
or charged all the sins that any human being would ever commit to
Jesus Christ on the cross and judged them all at that time. Jesus
Christ’s substitutionary spiritual death on the cross has
completely satisfied God the Father. God the Father has been
propitiated!
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Romans 3:24 Being justified as a gift by His grace through the
redemption which is in Christ Jesus;
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Propitiation is the God-ward
side of the work of Christ in salvation. Jesus Christ satisfied
God the Father’s holiness.
Reconciliation, peace, which we will study next, is the
man-ward side of the cross. We can now have peace with God.
Redemption is the sin-ward
side, for all sin has been paid for, or we’ve been redeemed. God
no longer looks at our sins!!
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Romans
3:25 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;
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Because at salvation we receive
the righteousness of God, God’s justice is now able to give us
blessings. Divine justice must judge sinful man before divine
justice is free to bless sinful man. Jesus Christ was judged for
our sins, even though He had no sin. He was our substitute. He
died a spiritual death on the cross. His spiritual death was when
He was separated from the Father. God the Father cannot have
contact with sin. Therefore, He had to be separated from Jesus
while Jesus was being judged for the sins of all sinners. Now God
is free to bless us. What a blessing! However, we must believe in
Jesus Christ’s substitutionary spiritual death on the cross.
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Romans 3:22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in
Jesus Christ to all who believe.
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God’s wrath, or divine punishment, fell upon
Christ carrying our sins. If divine wrath had not fallen upon
Christ, it would had to have fallen on us! However, we would not
have been able to take it nor could we pay the price for sin. God
knew that. So, He had Jesus Christ be a substitute for us. God is
holy, meaning that He is righteous (good) and just. He cannot let
sin pass. He was not angry at Christ, because Jesus Christ was
impeccable, He had no sin. God was not angry at sinners, for God
so loved the world that He gave His only beloved Son as a
sacrifice for our sins. God’s wrath or anger was against sin!
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1 John
2:2 And He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only
but also for the sins of the whole world.
1 John 4:10 This is love: not that we loved God but that He loved
us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Romans 8:31-32 What then shall we say to these things? If God is
for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but
delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him
freely give us all things?
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We sometimes forget the main reason for the
cross, and that is the holiness of God, or His justice and
righteousness, or goodness. His justice and righteousness had to
be satisfied. Sin outraged, or was a vicious act against His
holiness, and challenged His rulership. On the cross, Jesus Christ
glorified or honored God where sin had so dishonored Him. Jesus
Christ’s work on the cross glorified God publicly before the
universe. The blood of Christ, His spiritual death, showed the
infinite holiness of God. It showed His endless love and grace. We
need to train our spiritual eyes to look upon the cross as first
of all glorifying God! God was glorified and propitiated.
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Romans
3:22b-24 There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall
short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by His grace
through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.
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The blood of Jesus Christ propitiated the Father.
God the Father can now give us mercy and grace. The Son of God has
come to earth, sent by the God of Love. Jesus Christ has carried
our sins for us so that we who believe will not come into judgment
but can draw near to God by Christ’s blood, by His spiritual death
on the cross. We are in the eternal, all loving arms of God our
Father! He is completely satisfied with the awesome,
substitutionary work or Jesus Christ on the cross. We now have the
very life of Christ, the Son of God, with God as our Father! What
a good, just, and loving God and Father we have!!! .
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Romans
3:25-26 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; 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.
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Propitiation
God the Father Was Satisfied Jesus Christ’s Work on the Cross
References used:
Robert R.McLaughlin Bible Ministries
www.gbible.org
Lessons: 10-25-06,
10-31-06
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