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tion by His death and resunection. Based on His sacrifice, we can approach God confidently and boldly in time of need (Hebrews 4:16). This is what is called the perfection of Christ's satisfaction; Christ alone satisfies the demands of justice (Romans 3:25-f).
D It Satisfies the Law of God
The law of God is grounded in the very nature of God; therefore, trans gression of that law brings with it a penalty. Chrisfs death is not merely a satisfaction of the justice of God; it is also the satisfaction of the divine law of God. The sinner could not meet the demands of divine law of God, but Christ as our representative and substitute did. Thus God made provision for a vicarious satisfaction through the active and passive obedience of
Christ. "ForChrististheendofthelawforrighteousnesstoeveryonethat believeth" (Romans 10:4; Romans 3:19-31; 7:4-12).
E It is Involved in Atonement
The death of Christ is an atonement and propitiation. Leviticus 6:2-7 speaks of individual atonement for individual sin: "If a soul sin, and conv mit a trespass against the LORD, ...he shaU bring his trespass offering unto the LORD ...And the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD: and it shall be forgivenhimforanythingofallthathehathdone intrespassingtherein." However,thatforgivenesswasnotfortheinherited but for the "active" sin of that day. Leviticus 4:13-20 refers to national atone ment for national transgression. "If the whole'congregation of Israel sin...which should not be done and are guilty;...the congregation shall offer a young bullock for the sin,...and the elders of the congregation shall lay
their hands upon the head of the bullock before the Lord...and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them." The Hebrew word for atonement, "Kaphar", is oftentranslated "to makeatone ment." Itliterallymeans"tocoverover;soasnottobeseen." Davidsays, "Hide thy face from my sins,and blotoutallmineiniquities" (Psalm51:9). It is written, "... thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back" (Isaiah 38:17), and "...thou wilt cast all their sins into the depth of the sea" (Micah 7:19).
F it is Involved in Propitiation
The New Testament has much to say about the wrath of God. (See John
3:36; Romans 1:18; 5:9; Ephesians 5:6; I Thessalonians 1:10; Hebrews 3:11; Revelations 19:15.) Corresponding to this thought, the New Testament rep resents Christ's death as appeasing God's wrath: "Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness
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