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Grace Baptist Church of Danville

May 19, 2013

“I believe Satan is never nearer us than at some times when we think ourselves nearest the Lord.”                                                                                           — John Newton

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!  Pam Wood-22nd   Billy McCormack-25th

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY:  Cody & Winna Groover-27th

Christ Jesus Gave Himself for Me — Don Fortner

(Tune: #497 — When I Can Read My Title Clear — CM)

1.     Christ Jesus gave Himself for me. —

He bore my sin and guilt!

All that I need in Him I see,

Whose blood justice has spilt!

2.     He gave Himself that I might have,

His person as my own. —

His blood and righteousness I have,

To bring me to His throne!

3.     He gave Himself, and took my sins,

                  O blest exchange for me!

My heav’n in this sweet truth begins;

And I shall glory see!

“He hath made him sin!”

2 Corinthians 5:21

I am fully aware that carnal reason opposes this fact. Many have endeavored to make the Word of God say something else. We are told that Christ had sin imputed to him, that he bore the guilt of sin, that he was charged with the debt of our sins, that he became accountable for our sins, that he bore all the effects of our sins, and that he was treated as if he were sin. But this plain, straightforward, blessed statement of Holy Scripture is almost universally denied by men. — “He hath made him sin.” But there it stands. — “He hath made him sin.” How can this be? What can it mean?

            In human law and reason, among men, I fully acknowledge that guilt cannot be transferred, but only its effects. Among the sons of men, a third person may cancel my debts, but not my crimes. But I am not talking to you about things men can, or may do. I am talking to you about what our God has done. And in this great affair of salvation our great God stands infinitely alone. In this, his most glorious work, there is such a display of justice, mercy, wisdom, and power as never entered into the heart of man to conceive. Consequently, it can have no parallel in the actions of mortals. — “Who hath declared this from ancient time? Who hath told it from that time? have not I the Lord? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me” (Isaiah 45:21).

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A Just Judge Justly Imputes

Pastor Clay Curtis

 According to Holy God in his word (not the definitions and traditions of men) a just judge is one who imputes (charges, reckons) righteousness where righteousness is and imputes sin where sin is (Deuteronomy 25: 1; 27: 25; Exodus 23: 6-7; Isaiah 5: 23). The judge who does otherwise, according to this book, is an abomination to God, to be cursed and abhorred by the people (Proverbs 17:5; 24: 23-26). If this Book is our only rule of faith then that forces us to conclude that the Judge of the whole earth who sent Christ for the very purpose of declaring His righteousness, did not make Christ sin by imputation, for that would be unjustly charging sin where sin was not, which God forbids in His own word. But the just Judge justly imputed sin to Christ because He first made Christ sin who knew no sin (2 Corinthians 5: 21; 1 Peter 2: 24; Galatians 3: 13).

Likewise the just Judge does not make the believer righteous by imputation, for that too would be unjustly imputing righteousness where righteousness is not, which God forbids in his own word. But the just Judge imputes righteousness to the believer through faith, when in spirit the believer has been made righteous by God’s workmanship, when he is born again conformed to the image of Christ that created him (2 Corinthians 5: 21; Romans 5: 19; Ephesians 2: 10; Colossians 3: 10). “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he” (Deuteronomy 32: 4).

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Christ Made Sin for Us

2 Corinthians 5:21

Were our sins transferred to Christ and made his, or was our Savior only treated as if that were the case? — What do the Scriptures say? I am not even slightly concerned about what men say concerning this matter. I only want to know this. — What does God say in his Word? This is what God says. — “He hath made him sin.”

“Made”

In this statement, “He hath made him sin,” the word “made” is very significant. It is not a legal term, but a word that carries the idea of “create.” Writing by divine inspiration, the apostle Paul is tells us that God the Father, by one great, mysterious act, gathered together all the sins of all his elect throughout all the ages of time, and caused his darling Son to be sin for us. This is exactly the same thing we are told by other inspired writers (Isaiah 53:6, 12)). Jesus Christ, the incarnate Son of God, “his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Peter 2:24).

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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.”

Mosaic Types

This transfer of sin from the sinner to the sinner’s Surety was clearly set forth in the typical sacrifices of the Mosaic law. 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 represented typically 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” (Exodus 29:10-11).

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.

“And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat: And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.” (Leviticus 16:20-22)

Carefully observe what the Lord God shows us in this scapegoat typifying our dear Savior. — Here is the transfer of sin from the people to the goat, from us to Christ. — Here is the transfer of the sins of a particular people, of their sins and only their sins, the sins of the children of Israel, God’s elect people. — Here is the transfer of all the sins of all the children of Israel, all God’s elect. — And here we see the sins transferred from the people to the goat taken away. In a word, the scapegoat shows us a clear picture of particular, effectual redemption — limited atonement.

Sweet Assurance

Knowing that Christ was made sin for us, we understand that he was justly punished in our stead, punished to the full satisfaction of divine justice. By his satisfaction of justice for our sins, our sins have been completely, effectually, forever put away, and can never be charged to us (Psalm 103:12; Hebrews 1:3; 9:26-28; 1 John 3:5; Romans 4:8). If the holy, just, and true Lord God cannot find our sins, he cannot punish us for our sins; and that is exactly what he tells us in his Word (Jeremiah 50:20).

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The Grace Bulletin

May 19, 2013

Grace Baptist Church of Danville

2734 Old Stanford Road-Danville, Kentucky 40422-9438

Telephone (859) 236-8235 - E-Mail don@donfortner.com

Donald S. Fortner, Pastor

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Sunday

10:00 A.M. Bible Classes

10:30 A.M. Morning Worship Service

6:30   P.M. Evening Worship Service

Tuesday

7:30 P.M. Mid-Week Worship Service

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