The Sufficiency of Christ

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The Sufficiency of Christ
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Jesus Christ

• Substitutes
• Redeems
• Propitiates
• Reconciles

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Jesus Christ
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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 intercession
for them. (Hebrews 723-25)
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Jesus Christ
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Redeem

• To purchase
• purchase out of the market place
• To set free by payment of ransom

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Knowing that you were not redeemed 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 (1Peter 118-19)
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Jesus Christ
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Propitiation

• To satisfy wrath
• The satisfaction or the appeasement of Gods wrath

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• ...God displayed publicly as a propitiation in
  his blood through faith (Romans 325)
• and he himself is the propitiation for our sins
  and not for ours only, but also for those of the
  whole world. (1 John 22)
• ...but that he loved us and sent His son to be
  the propitiation for our sins (1 John 410)

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Reconciliation

• The removal of alienation between God and
  humankind

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• we were reconciled to God through the death of
  His Son (Romans 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... (Colossians 121-22)

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• Paul, a bond-servant of Christ Jesus, called as
  an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
  which He promised beforehand through His prophets
  in the holy Scriptures concerning His Son, who
  was born as a descendant of David...who was
  declared the Son of God with power by the
  resurrection from the dead according to the
  Spirit of holiness...(Romans 11-4)

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• Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
  Christ, who according to His great mercy has
  caused us to be born again to a living hope
  through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
  dead to obtain an inheritance which is
  imperishable and undefiled and will not fade
  away... (1 Peter 13-4)

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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 (Ephesians 28-9)

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The Sufficiency of Christ