Here is a brief summary of the six core thing’s Jesus accomplished in dying for us.
1. Expiation
Expiation means the removal of our sin and guilt Jesus’s death removes our sin and guilt. The guilt of our sin was taken away from us and placed on Jesus, who discharged it by His death.
In John 1:29, John the Baptist calls Jesus “the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” Jesus takes away, that is, expiates our sin. Likewise, Isaiah 53:6 says, “The Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him,” and Hebrews 9:25 says, “He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.”
2. Propitiation
Where expiration refers to the removal of our sins, propitiation refers to the of God’s wrath.
By dying in our place for our sins, Jesus removed the wrath of God that we justly deserve. In fact, it goes even further: propitiation is not simply a sacrifice that removes wrath, but a sacrifice that removes wrath and turns it into favor in turns wrath into love – God already loves us fully, which is the reason He sent Jesus to die; it turns His wrath into favor so that His live may realize its purpose of doing good to us every day, in all things, forever without sacrificing His justice and holiness.
Several Scriptures speak of Jesus’s death as a proportion of our sins. Romans 3;25-26 says that God “displayed Jesus publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God, He passed over sins previously committed; for the demonstration of His righteousness at present, that He might be just and the justifier of Him who has faith in Jesus.”
Likewise, Hebrews 2:17 says that Jesus made “propitiation for the sin of the people.” and 1 John 4:10 says “in this love, not that we loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for out sins.”
3. Reconciliation
As expiration refers to the removal of sins, and precipitation refers to the removal of God’s wrath, reconciliation refers to the removal of our alienation from God.
Because of our sins, we were alienated – separated from God. Jesus‘s death removed all the alienation and reconciled us to God. We see this in Romans 5:10-11: “ For while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved by His life.”
4. Redemption
Our sins had put us in captivity from which we needed to be delivered. The price that is paid to deliver someone from captivity is called a ransom. To say that Jesus‘s death accomplished redemption for us means that it accomplished deliverance from the captivity through the payment of a price.
The three things we had to be released from: the curse of the law, the guilt of sin, and the power of sin. Jesus redeemed us from each of these.
- Jesus redeemed us from the curse of the law. He redeemed us from the curse of the law, having do you become a curse for us (Galatians 3:13-14).
- Jesus redeemed us from the guilt of our sins. We are “justified as a gift by his grace through the redemption, which is Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:24).
- Jesus redeemed us from the power of sin. “ Knowing that we were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold, from a futile way of life inherited from our fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Jesus” (1 Peter 1:18-19).
5. Defeated Of The Powers Of Darkness
Jesus‘s death was a defeat of the power of Satan.“ he just armed the rulers and authorities, and put them to open shame, I try and thing over them in Him” (Colossians 3:15). Satan‘s only weapon that can ultimately hurt people is unforgiven sin. Jesus took this weapon away from him for all who would believe, defeating him, and all the powers of darkness to his death, by as the verse before this says, “ Haven’t forgiven us of our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This He set aside, nailing it to the cross” (Colossians 2:13-14).
6. And He Did All Of this By Dying As Our Substitute
The reality of substitution is at the heart of the atonement. Jesus accomplished, all of the above benefits for us by dying in our place – that is by dying instead of us. We deserve to die, and He took our sin upon Him, and paid the penalty Himself.
That is what it means that Jesus died for us (Romans 5:8) and gave Himself for us (Galatians 2:20). As Isaiah says, He was pierced through for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities… the. Lord has caused the iniquity us all to fall on Him (Isaiah 53:5-6).
You see the reality of substitution underlying all of the benefits discovered above, I didn’t means by which Jesus accomplished them. Substitution is the means by which we are all ransom: “The son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28). Jesus’s death was a ransom for us – That is instead of us. Likewise, Paul writes that “ christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us” (Galatians 3:13).
Substitution is the means by which we were reconciled: “ for Christ, who died for sins once and for all, just for the unjust, in order that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18). It is the means of expiation: “ He made Him who knew no sin, a sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (Corinthians 5:21) and “ He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness” ( 1 Peter 2:24). And by dying in our place, taking the penalty of our sin upon Himself, Jesus’s death is also the means of propitiation.
“Greater love has no one than this, but he lay down his life for his friends“ (John 15:13).
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