RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 11 - CALVINISM
RABBIT TRAIL
Reconciliation
– Redeemed – Saved – Elect
- Lets
pause right here
to grasp that something must happen in order for a debt to be
paid – Reconciliation is an accounting term – to balance the books - and
that’s where “God the Son” comes in; He paid our debt.
- If a man had become a
bondservant because he was unable to redeem himself; unable to repay his
own debt, then a kinsman who was ready, willing and able, could
redeem him. – The Son of God became the son of man to become our kinsman and
redeem us.
- It was prophesized by
Isaiah the prophet, that Christ would be the one who would come and “reconcile”
man to Himself - To pay the debt – To redeem the Elect
- Christ would give His
life for “the Church” which is not just the Jews or the Gentiles,
but for all those He foreknew; the Elect, “every kind of person”
that makes up the Church.
- Man is
DEAD
in his sins and it is Christ that makes us alive.
- Get
ready to get upset: Jesus Christ
did not die for EVERY man’s sin; He died just for the Elect, the
chosen, the predestined, those who are saved. – All others will die in
their sins.
Isa 53:11 – Prophecy – Christ
will suffer for the sin of many
11 After the suffering of his soul, he will
see the light [of life] and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant
will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. NIV
Eph 5:25 – Jesus gave His life for believers.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved
the church and gave himself up for her NIV
Rom 4:25 – It was His death that justified us
25 He was delivered over to death for our sins
and was raised to life for our justification. NIV
1 Cor 15:22 –It is through Christ that we are made alive.
22 For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all
will be made alive.
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