~ The Results of the
Atonement of Christ for Your Sins ~
Atonement Effects
Justification ~ “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while
we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be
saved from wrath through Him. For if
when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son,
much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that,
but we also rejoice in God through our Lord
Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation” (Romans
5:8-11).
Atonement Brings to God
~ “You
were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers
from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the
world. But now in Christ Jesus you who
once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ” (Ephesians
2:12-13).
Atonement Sanctifies
~ “We
have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all” (Hebrews 10:10). “Therefore Jesus also, that
He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate”
(Hebrews 13:12).
Atonement Cleanses
~ “To
Him who loved us and washed us from
our sins in His own blood” (Revelation 1:5b). “But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us
from all sin… If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:7, 9).
Atonement Reconciles
~ “For
if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son,
much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the
reconciliation” (Romans 5:10-11). “Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were
pleading through us: we implore you on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to
God. For He made Him who knew no sin to
be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2
Corinthians 5:20-21).
Atonement is Symbolized
in Baptism ~ “Therefore we were buried with Him through
baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory
of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life” (Romans
6:4). We are “buried with Him in baptism, in which
you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised
Him from the dead” (Colossians 2:12).
Atonement is Commemorated
in the Lord’s Supper ~ “For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered
to you: that the Lord Jesus on the same night in which He was betrayed took
bread; and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, ‘Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.’ In the same manner He also took the cup after
supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as
you drink it, in remembrance of Me.’ For
as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's
death till He comes” (1 Corinthians 11:23-26).
Atonement Produces Tangible
Results ~ “Whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through
faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had
passed over the sins that were previously committed, to demonstrate at the
present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the
one who has faith in Jesus” (Romans 3:25-26). “Who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of
His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by
Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of
the Majesty on high” (Hebrews 1:3).
“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.” (Hebrews
10:17). “For it pleased the Father that
in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to
Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace
through the blood of His cross” (Colossians 1:19-20).
note ~ This
series about atonement includes:
1. The
Concept of the Atonement of Christ for Your Sin
2. The Basics
of the Atonement of Christ for Your Sin
3. The Facts of the Atonement of Christ for Your
Sin
4. The Results of the Atonement of Christ for
Your Sin
5. 7 Benefits of Christ’s Atonement for Your Sin
6. The Atonement of Christ Foreshadowed
the key question:
“Who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15). This is the most important
question you will ever answer. If you do not answer it, or answer it
incorrectly, you have made the biggest mistake anyone can make!
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