The Sufficiency of Christ

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The Sufficiency of Christ
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Christ Substitutes
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Christ Substitutes Christ Redeems
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Christ Substitutes Christ Redeems Christ
Propitiates
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Christ Substitutes Christ Redeems Christ
Propitiates Christ Reconciles
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• Christ Substitutes

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• In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
  with God, and the Word was God (John 11)
• And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us
  (John 114)

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• The former priests on the one hand existed in
  greater numbers because they were prevented by
  death from continuing, but Jesus, on the other
  hand, because He continues forever, holds his
  priesthood permanently. Therefore He is able to
  save forever those who draw near to God through
  Him, since He always lives to make intersession
  for them
• (Heb.
  723-25)

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• Christ Substitutes
• Christ Redeems

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• Agorazo to purchase in the market place
• Exagorazo to purchase out of the market
• place
• Lytroo to set free by the payment of ransom

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• knowing that you were not redeemed (lytroo) with
  perishable things like silver or gold from your
  futile ways of life inherited from your
  forefathers but with precious blood, as of a
  lamb, unblemished and spotless, the blood of
  Christ
• (1 Peter
  118-19)

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• Christ Substitutes
• Christ Redeems
• Christ Propitiates

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• whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation
  in His blood through faith
• (Romans 324)

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• Propitiation
• - to satisfy the wrath
• - the satisfaction or the appeasement of Gods
  wrath

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• Christ Substitutes
• Christ Redeems
• Christ Propitiates
• Christ Reconciles

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• Reconciliation
• -the removal of alienation between God and
  humankind
• Katallasso
• -to exchange enmity for friendship, hostility for
  peace

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• we were reconciled to God through the death of
  His Son
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  510)
• And although you were formerly alienated and
  hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, yet He
  has now reconciled you in His fleshly body
  through death
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  121-22)

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• Christ Substitutes
• Christ Redeems
• Christ Propitiates
• Christ Reconciles

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• For by grace you have been saved through faith,
  and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of
  God, not as a result of works, so that no one may
  boast
• (Eph. 28-9)