I never respond to men who attack the gospel
I preach or vilify me for preaching it. The best way to refute error is to
proclaim truth. And the best thing to do with a mad dog in a man’s body is
ignore and walk away from him.
Daily
Sunday Deuteronomy
33-Joshua 1 Thursday Joshua 11-14
Monday Joshua
2-5 Friday
Joshua 15-17
Tuesday Joshua
6-8 Saturday Joshua 18-20
Wednesday Joshua
9-10 Sunday Joshua 21-22
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I am
scheduled to preach Wednesday night for Todds Road Grace Church in
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There
will be a baby shower tonight, following the evening worship service, for Billy
and Jayalita McCormack’s little girl, Molly Grayson.
Accepted from Eternity — Don Fortner
(Tune: # 66 — Jesus, Thou Joy of Loving Hearts — LM)
1. In union with the Lamb of God,
Accepted from eternity,
Chosen, adopted, blessed we stood,
In God’s dear Son, our Surety!
2. By cov’nant grace placed in His fold,
Adopted by that grace, most free,
Saved by his wise decree, we’re told,
In Christ we shall forever be!
3. God’s cov’nant He will never break,
Though sins may oft our peace assail,
Though storms arise and we are weak,
Our anchor holds within the veil!
4. Here let our weary souls find rest,
Our God and Savior stays the same;
And He declares that we are blest,
Blest in the Lamb for sinners slain!
The Lord Jesus Christ, because of His Godhead, has always
had rule over the universe. Yet, in His incarnation, God the Father bestowed or
conferred on Him (His Son) the office of King (Luke
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“He Hath Made Him Sin”
The Mosaic Types
2 Corinthians 5:21
The Word of God plainly
teaches that Christ our blessed Surety was made sin for us, that he bare our
sins in his own body on the tree, that the Lord God laid upon him our
iniquities, that “He hath made him sin.” This transfer of sin from the
sinner to the sinner’s Surety was clearly set forth in the typical sacrifices
of the Mosaic law.
Priests’ Consecration
It was typified and
prefigured by the sinner laying his hands on the head of the animal he brought
to be sacrificed in his stead before God. You will recall that when Aaron and
his sons were to be consecrated as priests unto God, they were commanded to “put
their hands on the head of the bullock,” which typically represented the
transfer of their sins to the bullock which was then counted worthy of death.
Because the bullock bearing their sins was counted worthy of death, the Lord
commanded, “And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation” (Ex. 29:10-11).
Scapegoat
Perhaps the clearest, most
well-known picture of the transfer of our sins to the Lord Jesus Christ and of
him putting away our sin by bearing them and bearing them away in his own body
on the tree is the scapegoat presented before the Lord on the day of atonement
(Lev. 16:20-22). As sin was typically transferred from the
people to the goat, so our sins were truly transferred from us to Christ.
The transfer of the sins was the transfer of the sins of a particular people,
of their sins and only their sins, the sins of the children of
The Sin-offering
Leviticus
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Leviticus
Trespass-offering
Leviticus 5 (vv. 6-7 and 18)
describes the trespass-offering. The word translated “trespass offering” means guilt. And again,
the word translated “trespass-offering” means “habitual sinfulness, or
offender.” As
the trespass-offering ceremonially took the place of
These offerings were vicarious sacrifices that ceremonially
received and sustained the curse due to sin. But that which was figuratively
represented in the Mosaic sacrifices is actually exhibited in Christ, of whom
they were but types and figures. In order to accomplish the complete expiation
of our sins he was “made sin for us”, and gave himself as the atoning
sacrifice for sin.
Christ Made Sin
Sinners Made
Righteous
Tobias
Crisp
Mark it well, Christ himself
is not so completely righteous, but we are as righteous as he was. Nor are we
so completely sinful, but he became (being made sin) as completely sinful as
we. Nay more, the righteousness that Christ hath with the Father, we are the
same, for we are ‘made the righteousness of God.’ And that very
sinfulness that we were, Christ is made before God. So that
here is a direct change. — Christ takes our persons and condition, and
stands in our stead. We take his person and condition, and stand in his stead.
What the Lord beheld Christ to be, that he beholds his members to be. What he
beholds them to be in themselves, that he beheld
Christ himself to be.
So that if you would speak
of a sinner, supposing him to be a member of Christ, you must not speak of what
he manifests, but of what Christ was.
If you would speak of one completely righteous, you must speak and know that Christ himself is not more righteous than he is. And that that person is not more sinful than Christ was when he took his sins on him. So that if you will reckon well, beloved, you must always reckon yourself in another’s person, and that other in yours. And until the Lord find out transgressions of Christ’s own acting, he will never find one to charge upon you.