The Atonement

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The Atonement
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• What is the problem?
• Sin is a breaking of the law. (1 John 34
  GNB)
• A-nomia
• Sin is lawlessness (NASB, ESV, NRSV, TNIV)
• Sin is a major disruption of Gods order.
  (Message)

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• Anything that is not based on faith is sin.
  (Romans 1423)
• Enoch spent his life in fellowship with God, and
  then he disappeared, because God took him away.
  (Genesis 524)
• Abram put his trust in the LORD, and because of
  this the LORD was pleased with him and accepted
  him. (Genesis 156)
• The LORD would speak to Moses face to face as a
  man would speak with a friend. (Exodus 3311)
• Those were the days when I was prosperous, and
  the friendship of God protected my home (Job
  291-3)

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• Youre hopeless, you religion scholars and
  Pharisees! Frauds! You burnish the surface of
  your cups and bowls so they sparkle in the sun,
  while the insides are maggoty with your greed and
  gluttony. Stupid Pharisee! Scour the insides, and
  then the gleaming surface will mean something.
  Youre hopeless, you religion scholars and
  Pharisees! Frauds! Youre like manicured grave
  plots, grass clipped and the flowers bright, but
  six feet down it's all rotting bones and
  worm-eaten flesh. (Matthew 2325-27 MSG)

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• God has blinded their eyes and closed their
  minds, so that their eyes would not see, and
  their minds would not understand, and they would
  not turn to me, says God, for me to heal them.
  (John 1240 GNB)

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• He could have pricked his finger and solved the
  problem, but he wanted to go all the way. Mel
  Gibson

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• an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to
  Joseph and said, Herod will be looking for the
  child in order to kill him. So get up, take the
  child and his mother and escape to Egypt, and
  stay there until I tell you to leave. (Matthew
  213 GN)

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• if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man
  and drink his blood, you will not have life in
  yourselves. Those who eat my flesh and drink my
  blood have eternal life, and I will raise them to
  life on the last day. For my flesh is the real
  food my blood is the real drink. Those who eat
  my flesh and drink my blood live in me, and I
  live in them. (John 653-55).

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The Atonement

• Websters reparation for an offense or injury
• Dictionary.com to make amends
• Latin ad (to, at) and unum (one)
• Literally to at-one, at-one-ment
• 16th century atwun
• Shakespeare (2 parties reaching a reconciliation)

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• KJV
• And not only so, but we also joy in God through
  our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now
  received the atonement. (Romans 511 - KJV)
• So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new
  relationship with God because our Lord Jesus
  Christ has made us friends of God. (Romans 511
  NLT)

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• For the message about Christs death on the
  cross is nonsense to those who are being lost
  but for us who are being saved it is Gods
  power. (1 Corinthians 118 GN)

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• The revelation of Gods character and Gods
  kingdom
• The revelation of sin
• The revelation of Satan
• The revelation of humanity
• Restored trust - healing

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• We were Gods enemies, but he made us his
  friends through the death of his Son. (Romans
  510 GN)
• All this is done by God, who through Christ
  changed us from enemies into his friends and gave
  us the task of making others his friends also.
  Our message is that God was making all human
  beings his friends through Christ. (2
  Corinthians 518-19 GN)

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• This is eternal life
• to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ,
  whom you sent. On earth I have given you glory by
  finishing the work you gave me to doI made your
  name known to the people you gave me. (John
  173-6)

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• I reckon everything as complete loss for the
  sake of what is so much more valuable, the
  knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I
  have thrown everything away I consider it all as
  mere garbage, so that I may gain Christ and be
  completely united with him. (Philippians 38,9
  GN)

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• The army officer saw what had happened, and he
  praised God, saying, Certainly he was a good
  man! (This man was really the Son of God!)
  When the people who had gathered there to watch
  the spectacle saw what happened, they all went
  back home, beating their breasts in sorrow.
  (Luke 2347-48 GN)

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• Now the message that we have heard from his Son
  and announce is this God is light, and there is
  no darkness at all in him. (1 John 15 GN)

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• My commandment is this love one another, just
  as I love you. The greatest love you can have for
  your friends is to give your life for them.
  (John 1512-13)
• Save yourself if you are Gods Son! Come on down
  from the cross! (Matthew 2740 GNB)

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• The revelation of Gods character and Gods
  kingdom
• The revelation of sin
• The revelation of Satan
• The revelation of humanity
• Restored trust - healing

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• He was hated and rejected his life was filled
  with sorrow and terrible suffering. No one wanted
  to look at him. We despised him and said, He is
  a nobody! He suffered and endured great pain for
  us, but we thought his suffering was punishment
  from God. He was wounded and crushed because of
  our sins by taking our punishment, he made us
  completely well. (Isaiah 531-5 CEV)

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• God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement,
  through faith in his blood. He did this to
  demonstrate his righteousness, because in his
  forbearance he had left the sins committed
  beforehand unpunished. (Romans 325)

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• You must not eat the fruit of that tree if you
  do, you will die the same day. (Genesis 217)

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• My anger will flame up like fire and burn
  everything on earth. It will reach to the world
  below and consume the roots of the mountains. I
  will bring on them endless disasters and use all
  my arrows against them. (Deuteronomy 3222,23
  GN)
• They fail to see why they were defeated they
  cannot understand what happened. Why were a
  thousand defeated by one, and ten thousand by
  only two? The Lord, their God, had abandoned
  them their mighty God had given them up
  (Deuteronomy 3229,30 GN)

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• Gods anger is revealed from heaven against all
  the sin and evil of the people whose evil ways
  prevent the truth from being known. God punishes
  them, because what can be known about God is
  plain to them, for God himself made it plain.
  (Romans 118,19 GN)

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• They say they are wise, but they are
  fools instead of worshiping the immortal God,
  they worship images made to look like mortals or
  birds or animals or reptiles. And so God has
  given those people over to do the filthy things
  their hearts desire, and they do shameful things
  with each other. They exchange the truth about
  God for a lie they worship and serve what God
  has created instead of the Creator himself, who
  is to be praised forever! Amen. Because they do
  this, God has given them over to shameful
  passions.Because those people refuse to keep in
  mind the true knowledge about God, he has given
  them over to corrupted minds, so that they do the
  things that they should not do. (Romans
  122-26,28 GN)

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• Because of our sins he was given over to die
  (Romans 425 GN)

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• Grief and anguish came over him, and he said to
  them, The sorrow in my heart is so great that it
  almost crushes me. (Matthew 2638)

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• Father, he said, if you will, take this cup of
  suffering away from me. Not my will, however, but
  your will be done. An angel from heaven appeared
  to him and strengthened him. In great anguish he
  prayed even more fervently his sweat was like
  drops of blood falling to the ground. (Luke
  2242-44)

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• My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
  (Matthew 2746)

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• We are not to regard God as waiting to punish
  the sinner for his sin. The sinner brings the
  punishment upon himself. His own actions start a
  train of circumstances that bring the sure
  result. Every act of transgression reacts upon
  the sinner, works in him a change of character,
  and makes it more easy for him to transgress
  again. By choosing to sin, men separate
  themselves from God, cut themselves off from the
  channel of blessing, and the sure result is ruin
  and death. 1888

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• For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
  God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  (Romans 623)

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• My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
  (Matthew 2746)

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• As it is, however, the sacrifices serve year
  after year to remind people of their sins.
  (Hebrews 103 GNB)

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• The revelation of Gods character and Gods
  kingdom
• The revelation of sin
• The revelation/defeat of Satan
• The revelation of humanity
• Restored trust - healing

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• Jesus himself became like them and shared their
  human nature. He did this so that through his
  death he might destroy the Devil (Hebrews 24
  GN).

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• Ill not be talking with you much more like this
  because the chief of this godless world is about
  to attack. (John 1430,31 The Message)
• I will not talk with you much more, for the
  prince (evil genius, ruler) of the world is
  coming. And he has no claim on Me. (John 1430
  AMP)

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• Simon, Simon! Listen! Satan has received
  permission to test all of you, to separate the
  good from the bad, as a farmer separates the
  wheat from the chaff. (Luke 2231,32 GN)

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• People passing by shook their heads and hurled
  insults at Jesus You were going to tear down
  the Temple and build it back up in three days!
  Save yourself if you are God's Son! Come on down
  from the cross! In the same way the chief
  priests and the teachers of the Law and the
  elders made fun of him He saved others, but he
  cannot save himself! Isnt he the king of Israel?
  If he will come down off the cross now, we will
  believe in him! (Matthew 2739-43 GN)

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• And on that cross Christ freed himself from the
  power of the spiritual rulers and authorities he
  made a public spectacle of them by leading them
  as captives in his victory procession.
  (Colossians 215 GN)

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• Through the Son, then, God decided to bring the
  whole universe back to himself. God made peace
  through his Sons blood on the cross and so
  brought back to himself all things, both on earth
  and in heaven. At one time you were far away from
  God and were his enemies because of the evil
  things you did and thought. But now, by means of
  the physical death of his Son God has made you
  his friends (Colossians 120-22 GN)

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• The revelation of Gods character and Gods
  kingdom
• The revelation of sin
• The revelation/defeat of Satan
• The revelation of humanity
• Restored trust - healing

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• We have no king but Caesar (John 1915, KJV)
• Which one do you want me to set free for you?
  Jesus Barabbas or Jesus called the Messiah?
  (Matthew 2717 GN)

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• Then the Jews, since it was the day of Sabbath
  preparation, and so the bodies wouldnt stay on
  the crosses over the Sabbath (it was a high holy
  day that year), petitioned Pilate that their legs
  be broken to speed death, and the bodies taken
  down. (John 1931 The Message).

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• The revelation of Gods character and Gods
  kingdom
• The revelation of sin
• The revelation/defeat of Satan
• The revelation of humanity
• Restored trust - healing

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• Yes, may you come to know his lovealthough it
  can never be fully knownand so be completely
  filled with the very nature of God. (Ephesians
  319 GN).

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• And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate
  the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his
  image with ever-increasing glory, which comes
  from the Lord, who is the Spirit. (2 Corinthians
  318 NLT)
• All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces
  shining with the brightness of his face. And so
  we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our
  lives gradually becoming brighter and more
  beautiful as God enters our lives and we become
  like him. (2 Corinthians 318 The Message)

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• This is how we can be sure that we are in union
  with God if we say that we remain in union with
  God, we should live just as Jesus Christ did. (1
  John 25 GN)