F4F | Debunking Progressive Attacks Against Penal Substitution

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Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseborough. I am your servant in Jesus Christ.

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This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God. Now today we're gonna return to Stephen Chalk.

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I was calling him shock and some people sent me, you know, pronunciation corrections and I always accept those because I don't always know how to properly pronounce things.

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But we're going to return to the United Kingdom to Stephen Chalk. And this is a fellow who is a progressive.

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And as a progressive, progressives as a general rule, and now there may be some exceptions, but progressives as a general rule hate the doctrine of penal substitution.

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The other name for that doctrine, by the way, is also known as a vicarious satisfaction or vicarious substitution, things along these lines, where the idea is that Christ dies for our sins.

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He dies in our place and he propitiates the wrath of God and he expiates our sins.

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We'll talk about this in a little bit. So what progressives do is they like to talk about so -called atonement theories.

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And by the way, I'm gonna make a claim, there is no such thing as an atonement theory.

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If anybody has come up with an atonement theory that, well, that means they're just not engaging in biblical exegesis.

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The Bible reveals what it is that Christ accomplished for us on the cross, flat out.

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And there's a Latin phrase that we use in Lutheranism, and the name of the phrase, the way the phrase goes, it's quad non est biblicum non est theologicum.

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If it's not in the Bible, it's not theology. If it's not in the

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Bible, it's not theology. So when it comes to what Christ did on the cross and what he accomplished, we do not have freedom as Christians to reject what

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God has revealed regarding what Jesus did. There are no theories of the atonement.

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There are only aspects of what Christ did on the cross that are revealed and explained to us in Scripture.

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And so Scripture talks about Christ's death as being propitiatory, as being an expiation, talks about it as being a redemption, also talks about it as being a ransom, also talks about it as being a victory.

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So when we talk about Christ's substitutionary work, we're looking at two aspects of what he did on the cross, specifically a propitiation and expiation, and we'll take a look at a lot of biblical texts in this regard.

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And so you might want to get a Bible. We're gonna do a lot of heavy lifting on this one. And I got to warn you ahead of time, if blasphemy makes you angry, there's a really good chance that what

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Stephen Chalk says in this video is going to anger you. And we're gonna keep our anger within the spectrum of righteous anger rather than crossing the line over into sinful anger.

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There is a difference between those two things. So all of that being said, let me whirl up the desktop and pull up our web browser here, and we'll let him spin this out.

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And I'm gonna note, the most important words that he says as far as applying biblical discernment occur really quickly, early on, and if you miss it, you're going to kind of miss how you attack something like this.

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But let's let Chalk dive in, shall we? Over the last few weeks,

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I've talked about my view that the God of the Bible's holiness... Ah, now see, there we go.

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See, the important words were my view. Mm -hmm.

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So here's the idea. When it comes to biblical doctrine, I don't have a view. I should not have a view.

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If I have a view, that's a problem. I then subscribe to what is revealed in Scripture, and my goal is to not have a view.

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My goal is to adopt what God has revealed in His Word and subscribe to and adhere to and bend the knee to God's view.

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That's kind of the prerogative of God revealed in Scripture. So yeah, let me back this up so you can kind of hear it again, and we'll note the words, my view.

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Over the last few weeks, I've talked about my view that the God of the Bible's holiness, in other words,

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His difference or uniqueness, is His love. Love, the

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Bible teaches us, is not one of the qualities that God possesses but His very essence.

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Love is not some minor attribute that sometimes characterizes God's behavior but His essential being.

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Love is not a component part of God but His very nature. All right, so his view is that love is not a component part of God but His very nature.

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Well, in order to be correctly speaking about God, you're gonna need biblical texts to back all of this up, and then my immediate question is, what do you do with the biblical texts that so clearly teach that God, who is love, has wrath towards those who have sinned against Him?

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And by the way, that's all of us. That's me and you included. So, already we got a problem here is that His view seems to be the thing that He's putting front and center here rather than a in -depth look and a meaningful look at what

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God has revealed in His written Word through His prophets and apostles. God is love.

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Indeed, yes, 1st John says that. That being the case, why would you take a biblical text like God is love and then use that to obliterate other passages?

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Watch where he goes with this. So, in that case, why do we sing so many worship songs about the wrath of God having to be satisfied by Jesus' death on the cross?

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Because the Bible says that. I mean, this isn't rocket surgery!

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Why do we sing so many songs about the wrath of God being satisfied by the death of Christ on the cross?

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Because the Bible actually says that. So, let's do our biblical work here.

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Grab a Bible! We're going to take a more in -depth look at the propitiatory, substitutionary work of Christ.

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And I've prepared one particular, you know, it's a slight, how do

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I put it, presentation to at least get two things in place. This isn't really a presentation.

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It's more or less a slide, but you get the idea. So, when we talk about Christ's death on the cross, there are two major aspects, but there are more than this.

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But two of the major aspects of Christ's sacrifice on the cross deal with one aspect of which we call propitiation.

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To propitiate means to appease, to placate, to satisfy.

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And you'll note that in the sacrificial system of the Old Testament, which are the types and shadows, there are specifically propitiatory sacrifices that appease, satisfy, and placate the justice and the wrath of God.

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And then the second aspect of this is to expiate. To expiate means to remove or to annul or to cancel.

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So, that being the case, let's take a look. I'm going to go into the book of Leviticus chapter 16.

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We'll kind of start here and note a few things in relation to this. The Day of Atonement in the

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Old Testament sacrificial system was one of the only times where all sins can be forgiven.

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You know, not only unintentional sins, but intentional and high -handed sins could be forgiven on the

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Day of Atonement. And you're going to note then that there are two animals, specifically for the people.

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One dies as a propitiatory sacrifice. The other has the sins of the people expiated, taken off the people, and put on the animal.

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And so, in the Day of Atonement, you have to look at both the sacrificial goat and the scapegoat as both working together as a unit.

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They are not to be understood apart from each other. They have to go together as a unit.

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So, let's take a look here. So, Yahweh spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron. They had offered strange fire when they drew near to Yahweh and they died.

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And Yahweh said to Moses, tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the holy place inside the veil before the mercy seat that is on the ark so that he may not die.

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For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat, but in this way Aaron shall come into the holy place with a bull from the herd for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.

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You're going to note here that as part of the Day of Atonement sacrifices, Aaron has to offer sacrifices for his sins.

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He has to offer sacrifices for the purpose of cleansing the implements of the temple and itself or the tabernacle.

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And then you have the two sacrificial animals, one for propitiation, one for expiation.

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So, then he shall put on the holy linen coat, shall have the linen undergarment on his body, he shall tie the linen sash around his waist, wear the linen turban.

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These are the holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and put them on. He shall take from the congregation of the people of Israel two male goats.

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Now, here's where we go, okay? One for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.

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And you kind of get the idea. So, we got one for a sin offering, one for a burnt offering. Aaron shall offer the bull as a sin offering for himself.

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He shall make atonement for himself, for his house. Then he shall take the two goats, set them before Yahweh at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

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Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for Yahweh and the other for Azazel.

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Azazel, tough concept to pull into English because we're not 100 % certain.

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But the idea is, you can kind of say, and one for the devil to send off to the demons, but with the sins of the people removed from them.

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So, we'll kind of show you the implications here. So, one for the

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Lord, one for Azazel. Aaron shall present the goat on which the lot fell for Yahweh and use it as a sin offering.

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This is a propitiatory sacrifice. This is to satisfy the wrath and the justice of God.

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But the goat on which the lot fell for Azazel shall be presented alive before Yahweh to make atonement over it, that it may be sent away into the wilderness to Azazel.

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And you'll note that this scapegoat, then, that the sins of the people are imputed to it, they're lifted off the people, put on the goat, and so here we've got an expiation working out, and then that goat with its sins are sent back to the devil, to the demons.

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So, Aaron shall present the bull as a sin offering for himself. He shall make atonement for himself and for his house.

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He shall kill the bull as a sin offering for himself. He shall take a censer full of coals of fire from the altar before Yahweh, two handfuls of sweet incense beaten small, and he shall bring it inside the veil.

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He shall put incense on the fire before Yahweh, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is over the testimony, so that he does not die.

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And then he shall take some of the blood of the bull, sprinkle it with his finger on the front of the mercy seat, on the east side, in front of the mercy seat, and he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

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Then he shall kill the goat for the sin offering, and there we go. So, this is to satisfy the wrath of God.

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This is the propitiatory aspect. That is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil to do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, sprinkling it over the mercy seat, in front of the mercy seat.

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Thus, he shall make atonement for the people, for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the people of Israel, because of their transgressions and all their sins.

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And he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleanness.

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No one may be in the tent of meeting from the time he enters to make atonement in the holy place until he comes out and has made atonement for himself and for his house and for all of the assembly of Israel.

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So again, this is serving then as a sacrifice that propitiates the wrath of God.

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We'll talk about this a little bit more in a minute. Then he shall go out to the altar before Yahweh, make atonement for it.

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He shall take some of the blood of the bull, some of the blood of the goat, put it on the horns of the altar all around, and he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times and cleanse it and consecrate it from the uncleanness of the people of Israel.

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And when he has made an end of atoning for the holy place and for the tent of meeting, he shall present the live goat and Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the live goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the people of Israel and all their transgressions, all their sins, and he shall put them on the head of the goat and then send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a man who is in readiness.

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The goat shall, watch this, bear all their iniquities on itself to a remote area.

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He shall let the goat go free in the wilderness. So you'll know, one goat dies as a sin offering, a sacrifice, an atoning, propitiatory sacrifice.

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The other represents expiation, and I'll come back to our thing here.

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So the goat that dies propitiates and appeases and placates and satisfies

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God's justice and wrath, the expiation is a picture then of the sins being removed from the people, which then means that something else has borne their sins.

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And so Christ's death on the cross is described in these terms. So all of that being said, you got the basic gist of it, here's the types and shadows.

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Now Hebrews 9 also bears this out for us in explaining how this all works.

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Talking about Christ, it says, "...Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal heritance, since the death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

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For where a will is involved, the death of the one who made it must be established. For a will takes effect only at death, since it is not enforced as long as the one who made it is alive.

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Therefore, not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood," and we'll talk about this from Exodus chapter 24 in a minute, "...for

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every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people. He took the blood of calves and goats with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people, saying,

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This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you. And in the same way he sprinkled the blood both the tent and the vessels used in worship.

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Indeed, under the law almost everything is," what? "...purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins."

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So, Scripture makes it clear that there is no forgiveness of sins without the shedding of blood.

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Christ's blood is the one that is shed for us. It is shed, and His blood then is held up as a ransom.

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This is the other aspect of it, not because we're being held hostage, but the idea of one life for the other.

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One vicariously dies in the place of the other, and so you get the idea.

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And the book of Romans does a great job of explaining how all the sacrificial system works.

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So then you'll note that Christ, on the night that He's betrayed, in the Gospel of Mark, says these words, "...as

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they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it, broke it, and gave it to them, and said, Take, this is my body.

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And He took a cup, and when He had given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And He said, This is the my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many."

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And so you'll note when Christ talks about His blood being poured out, and it is the blood of the covenant, which covenant?

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The new covenant that is poured out for many. This harkens back to the book of Exodus, chapter 24, where it talks about the blood of the covenant for the

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Mosaic covenant that Romans 9 then made reference to. And it says this in Exodus 24, "...Moses

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came and told the people all the words of Yahweh, all the rules, and all the people answered with one voice,

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All the words that Yahweh has spoken we will do. Moses wrote down all the words of the

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Lord. He rose early in the morning, built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

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He sent young men of the people of Israel, who offered burnt offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Yahweh.

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Moses took half the blood, put it in basins, half the blood, threw it against the altar. Then he took the book of the covenant, read it in the hearing of the people, and they said,

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All that Yahweh has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient. Moses took the blood and threw it on the people.

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Behold the blood of the covenant." This is the blood of the Mosaic covenant that Yahweh has made with you in accordance with all of these words.

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So you'll note that the Mosaic covenant was inaugurated with blood. The new covenant that we're under as Christians is also, you know, there's blood involved, and that's the blood of Christ.

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It's His blood that is the blood of the new covenant, and as Hebrews makes it clear, then, that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

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So then coming back, then, we looked at Leviticus 16 and how the two goats represent two concepts, propitiation and expiation, and if you consider

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Jesus's death on the cross and what happened regarding...where's

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my Matthew text? Hang on a second here, I gotta find a text that I had set up ahead of time.

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That's not it. There we go, Barabbas! All right, so all of that being said, I want you to consider, then, the real

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Day of Atonement for all of us, which is the day that Christ died on the cross. We call it

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Good Friday, and we recently observed that just a couple of weeks ago. But all that being said, watch then how the types and shadows of Leviticus 16 come into play.

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Christ becomes the propitiatory sacrifice, and Jesus's expiatory work of bearing our sins in our place, then, is played out with the convicted murderer,

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Barabbas. And we'll watch how this plays out. So, Matthew 27 15, it says, Now, at the feast, the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted, and they had a notorious prisoner called

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Barabbas. And so, when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, whom do you want me to release to you,

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Barabbas or Jesus, who is called Christ? Because they knew it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.

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Now, Barabbas, by the way, in Aramaic, Barabbas, that means the son of the father.

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Very fascinating little bit of information. And a lot of people don't know that, even Christians, because these types of details of Scripture, sadly, are not taught in many churches.

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So, Barabbas means son of the father. What an interesting name, kind of a double entendre. He's a convicted murderer.

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And so, Pilate says, who do you want me to release for you? They knew that they had delivered Jesus up because they were jealous of him.

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And besides, he was sitting on the judgment seat. His wife sent word, have nothing to do with that righteous man.

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I've suffered much because of him today in a dream. Now, the chief priests and the elders, they persuaded the crowd, and they asked for Barabbas to destroy

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Jesus. The governor again said to them, which of the two do you want me to release to you? And they said,

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Barabbas. Pilate said to them, then what shall I do with Jesus, who is called the Christ? And they said, let him be crucified.

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And then he said, why, what evil has he done? But they shouted all the more, let him be crucified. Now, you're going to note then, the cross that Jesus dies on is

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Barabbas's cross. And Barabbas, a convicted murderer, is allowed to go free.

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Why? Because Jesus is bearing his penalty for him.

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And so, Barabbas is a picture of what we see in the day of atonement. Christ is his atoning sacrifice, and Barabbas's sins are taken off of him and put onto Jesus.

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So, that's why in the day of atonement, you have both an expiatory picture as well as a propitiatory picture.

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All of that being said, I want you to consider this, that there are texts very explicitly in the

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New Testament that say that Christ's death was propitiatory. And so, you'll note then in Romans 3 .25,

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it says, God put forward Jesus as a propitiation, and there it is, okay, to satisfy to the wrath of God, a propitiation by his blood to be received by faith.

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This was to show God's righteousness because in his divine forbearance, he had passed over the former sins. Hebrews 2 .17

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says, therefore, he had to be made like his brothers, talking about Christ in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make what?

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Propitiation for the sins of the people. 1 John 2 .2

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saying about Christ, he is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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1 John 4 .10 says, in this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he has loved us and sent his

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Son to be the propitiation for our sins. And I'll note that Stephen Chalk quotes 1

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John, God is love, and somehow ignores the fact that 1 John, that same epistle, says that Jesus is the propitiation for our sins.

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That being the case, we should consider a few more texts. Number one, Paul, in telling us what the gospel is, and this is the good news, and he got this directly from Jesus via direct revelation of Jesus, he says this,

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I would remind you brothers of the gospel that I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word that I preached to you, unless you believed in vain, for I delivered as of first importance what

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I also received. Here it is, Christ died for our sins.

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Now, the question is, what does that mean? We'll talk about that in a minute. In accordance with the scriptures, he was buried and raised on the third day in accordance with the scripture, and he appeared to Cephas, and then to the twelve, and then he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.

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So, if it says Christ died for our sins, the idea here is that that's clearly pointing to Christ's substitutionary work.

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He is dying vicariously in your place and mine. To save us from what?

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Well, the very thing that you're going to hear Stephen Chalk deny that God has, but scripture says this.

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Note again, John, the gospel of John chapter three, verse thirty -six, the same guy who wrote first John, which

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Stephen Chalk is misquoting or quoting against other passages of scripture, says this, whoever believes in the

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Son has eternal life, whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

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I'm pretty sure that the disciple whom Jesus loved, that's the apostle John, is a firm believer in the wrath of God, and he is, because scripture clearly teaches this, and he also was taught it by whom?

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Christ himself. Now, Paul says in Romans chapter one, verse eighteen, the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

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Does God have wrath? You bet your bippy he has wrath. Then also consider what

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Paul says in that same book, Romans, and in chapter two, verses five to eight, he says this, but because of your hardened and penitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when

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God's righteous judgment will be revealed. He will render each according to his works to those who by patience and well -doing seek glory and honor in immortality.

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He will give eternal life, but for those who are self -seeking and do not obey the truth but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.

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Romans five puts it then this way, therefore, since we have been justified, dikaiao, declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our

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Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings knowing that suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope, and hope doesn't put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the

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Holy Spirit who has been given to us. So while we were still weak then, at the right time, watch this,

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Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person, though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die.

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But God demonstrates his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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Since therefore we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God?

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The apostle Paul, who was given the gospel by Jesus himself directly, is also an affirmer of what?

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The wrath of God. Ephesians 2 verses 1 to 3 says it this way, and you, before you were

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Christians, you were dead in trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work, and the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and we were by nature, what?

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Children of wrath. Whose wrath? God's, like the rest of mankind. Paul then goes on to say in Ephesians 5 verses 1 to 8, be imitators of God as beloved children.

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Walk in love as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and a sacrifice to God.

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So sexual immorality, all impurity or covetousness must not be named among you as is proper among the saints.

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Let there be no filthiness or foolish talk or crude joking which are out of place. Instead, let there be thanksgiving.

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For you may be sure of this, everyone who is sexually immoral or impure or who is covetous, that is an idolater, has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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So let no one deceive you with empty words. And I'm going to say this warning applies to Stephen Chalk. Let no one deceive you with empty words.

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For because of these things, all the things listed above, the what? The wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

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Paul then also says in Colossians chapter 3, put to death therefore what is earthly in you, sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, covetousness, which is idolatry.

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On account of these, the wrath of God is coming. And then you'll note in the book of Revelation, we also have examples of God's wrath being poured out on humanity.

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And it explicitly talks about the great day of God's wrath coming in multiple passage.

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And that's also written by the Apostle John. So I'm going to note that I'm going to trust

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John, I'm going to trust Paul, I'm going to trust the other biblical authors over Stephen Chalk, who seems to be intentionally omitting these texts or using an unlawful hermeneutic to quote a passage of Scripture to obliterate other passages.

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God is love means that he doesn't have wrath? No, that's not biblical, because Scripture shows us that not only has

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God loved us, but that God is also just, and therefore our sins have offended

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God, and we've earned justice. And God's justice against our sins is wrath, and that's what

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Christ did on our place. With all that being said, this is where the key text then comes into play.

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And that is Isaiah chapter 52, starting at verse 13 through Isaiah 53, talking about explicitly

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Christ's substitutionary work. So here's what it says. And this is, by the way, we know that this is about Jesus, and I'll give you a text to help you out along these lines.

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We know this is about Jesus because in Luke 22, verse 37,

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Jesus quotes from this passage of Isaiah and says he's going to fulfill it.

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So Jesus says this text is about him. So Jesus says, for I tell you that this

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Scripture must be fulfilled in me, and he was numbered with the transgressors, for what is written about me has its fulfillment.

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So Christ, quoting from Isaiah 53, says that it must be fulfilled in me, that that text is about him.

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We also know from Acts chapter 8, the account of Philip and the

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Ethiopian eunuch, the Ethiopian eunuch was reading from Isaiah 53, like a sheep that was led to the slaughter, and like a lamb before its shears is silent.

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So he opened not his mouth, and humiliation justice was denied him. Who can describe his generation, for his life is taken away from him?

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And so the eunuch said to Philip, about whom, I ask, does this prophet say this about himself or someone else?

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And Philip then opened his mouth, and beginning with this Scripture, he told him the good news about Jesus. So we have

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Jesus saying it's about... Isaiah 53 is about Jesus. We have Philip saying it's about Jesus.

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We have Peter in another text saying it's about Jesus. So I'm going to go with these guys, that Isaiah 53 is about Christ.

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So all that being said, this particular portion of Isaiah, known as the Song of the Suffering Servant, begins at verse 13.

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Behold, my servant shall act wisely. He shall be high and lifted up, and he shall be exalted.

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As many as were astonished at you, his appearance was so marred beyond human semblance, and his form beyond that of the children of mankind.

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So this is talking then about the beatings that Jesus suffered. On the cross, you wouldn't have recognized him.

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He was so badly beaten, bruised, and bloodied that he was marred beyond human semblance.

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So shall he sprinkle many nations. Kings shall shut their mouths because of him, for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.

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So who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed? For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground.

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He had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him.

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He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, and as one from whom men hid their faces, he was despised and we esteemed him not.

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Surely he has borne our griefs, carried our sorrows, yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted.

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And here's the text, he was pierced for our transgressions, for them, our transgressions.

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He dies in our place. He was pierced for your transgressions and mine. Who's guilty of putting

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Jesus on the cross? I am. You are. He was pierced for our transgressions.

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He was crushed for our iniquities. The chastisement, the musar here in Hebrew, you could also translate that as punishment.

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The punishment that brought us peace was upon him. He was crushed for our iniquities, upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

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All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, and watch this, the

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Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. So here in Isaiah 53, we see both propitiation and expiation.

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God has taken your sins off of you and laid them on Christ, the

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Lord, Yahweh, not the high priest from the Levitical priesthood, but Yahweh himself has laid on Jesus the iniquity of us all.

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He was oppressed, he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth, like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.

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By oppression and judgment he was taken away, and as for his generation who considered that he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people, and they made his grave with the wicked and with the rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in mouth, in his mouth, yet it was the will of Yahweh to crush him, and he has put him to grief.

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When his soul makes an offering for guilt, he shall see his offspring, and he shall prolong his days. The will of Yahweh will prosper in his hand.

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Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied, and by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted as righteous, and he shall," watch this, "...bear

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their iniquities." Again, Isaiah 53 gets both propitiation and expiation.

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Your sins have been taken off you, put on Christ, and God's wrath has been propitiated because his punishment, his chastisement, is what brings us peace with God.

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So, "...therefore I will divide him a portion with the many, he shall divide the spoil with the strong, because he poured out his soul to death, and he was numbered with the transgressors, although he committed no sin.

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Yet he bore the sin of many, and he makes intercession for the transgressors." And then I would only add one other text in this regard, and let me go over here to Hebrews, and that's in 2

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Corinthians 5, talking about now we as Christians have the ministry of reconciliation, and we are the ones who are to tell the good news of Jesus Christ.

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So, from now on, 2 Corinthians 5, 6, "...from now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh, even though we once were regarded, we regarded

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Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

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The old has passed away, behold, the new has come." And all of this is from God, who through Christ, what? Reconciled us to himself.

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So, we have been reconciled to God through Christ's death on the cross, and God has now given us the ministry of reconciliation.

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That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

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Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, and God is making his appeal through us. So, then, we implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

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For our sake, he, God, made him, Jesus, to be sin, who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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So, Christ bears your sin, and he bears your punishment. He vicariously dies in your place, propitiates the wrath of God.

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Your sins have been expiated. They have been lifted off of you, put onto Christ, and because of what he has done, you now have peace with God.

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So, repent and believe the good news, and times of refreshing will come even for you.

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So, there you go. That's the biblical basis of it, and I would note here that I've written two papers.

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We'll put links to them below. So, back in 2016, I published this paper, debunking postmodern liberal claims that penal substitutionary atonement didn't exist until a thousand years after Christ.

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That's hogwash, absolute hogwash, and Isaiah 53 proves that thesis to be wrong, and I talk about Tony Jones of the

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Emergent Church, but we'll put a link to this article, and then another one from May 4th of 2016,

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Penal Substitution in the Writings of the Church Fathers, and you'll note that the Church Fathers totally believed that Christ died in our place, died for our sins.

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He was a propitiatory sacrifice that expiated our sins and put them on Christ, who bore them for us.

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You'll see that all then in these quotes from the Church Fathers, which I've reproduced. And again, if you want to read both of these resources, the links to are down below.

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But let's come back to Stephen Chalk, who is doing what? He's not exegeting a biblical text.

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He's not teaching biblical doctrine. He's giving us, quote, his view, but his view is contradicted by all the texts that I've just read out.

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So, who are you going to believe? Are Peter?

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Philip? Who are you going to believe? Are you going to believe this guy? Are you going to believe scripture? Because he's not giving us a biblical doctrine here.

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He's giving us his thoughts, his opinions, and he's rejecting what scripture clearly says.

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Let me back it up just a little bit. Here we go. So, in that case, why do we sing so many worship songs about the wrath of God having to be satisfied by Jesus' death on the cross?

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Well, I've already shown that. That's because the Bible teaches that. And preach countless sermons based on the same angry

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God theme. Yeah, well, scripture is clear. God, that because of our sins, we're under the wrath of God.

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I quoted text to that effect already. Do you know how to read? Caricature in all of this, in an extremely entertaining episode of the

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Simpsons, Homer's neighbor, the Bible -thumping, church -going, staunch evangelical

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Ned Flanders, thunders, I don't judge you. I leave that to a wrathful, angry

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God. I don't generally get my theology from the Simpsons. Just saying,

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I get it from the Bible. And you haven't given me any biblical texts that support your claims.

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To do. Of course, many, if not most Christians, learn to just live with this unthought -through dichotomy.

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Unthought -through dichotomy. Hmm. I just believe what scripture says. Why don't you? On one hand, they believe in God's grace and goodness, but on the other, that one of the central acts of their faith,

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Jesus' death on the cross, is bound up in God's wrath and need for appeasement.

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That's strange because I just showed you text after text after text that shows us that because of our sin and rebellion against God, we are by nature objects of his wrath.

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And that when Jesus returns, he's going to return in wrath. And that wrath is stored up for those who continue to persist in sin and unbelief.

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This is just clearly taught in the Bible. Again, I have to ask the question, have you read the book?

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However, for their friends and for the rest of the world, it's all just a massive contradiction.

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No, it's not. The contradiction lies in your head. You made it up. You know,

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God doesn't contradict himself. So, you'll note that as parents, when our children misbehave, there are consequences.

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And yet, I love my children. Hmm. Is there a contradiction if I make sure that there are consequences when they disobey, that somehow nullifies my love for them?

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This is just bizarre. It's the elephant in the room. No, it's not.

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If it's true that God's anger could only be satisfied through the death of Jesus, then, in fact, the

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God of the Bible isn't unique at all. Instead, his thirst for blood is no different from that of countless other gods.

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Yeah, that's all from the book of First Opinions here. Do you have a biblical text that we can meaningfully work our way through?

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Because I provided a lot of that in this counter video here. You're providing no texts at all, just your theological musings.

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But quad non est biblicum non est theologicum. If it's not in the Bible, it's not theology. I don't recognize your reasoning skills to somehow have the power to obliterate what

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God has so clearly revealed in multiple portions of his word. The ancient world is a

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God who needs a bloody human sacrifice on a cross in order to forgive others any different from a

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God who requires that virgins have to be sacrificed on the slopes of an angry volcano.

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You'll note there is a difference. The God of the Bible exists in the God that requires virgins to be sacrificed in volcanoes doesn't.

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In fact, scripture is very clear that those who worship such deities are worshiping demons.

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So you're now ascribing to the one true God demonic demands that's threatening to erupt.

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And more than that, if this is what Jesus' death on the cross was all about, then

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God, it turns out, is a slave to his own anger, unwilling or...

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So now he's the judge of God. Stephen Chalk, in his theological arrogance, is judging

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God. Wow. Unable to forgive those who've wronged or misunderstood him without first getting his pound of flesh.

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You know, the weird thing is, is that Jesus Christ is God in human flesh. He's the son of God in human flesh, second person of the

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Holy Trinity. Weird, because God himself provides our sacrifice. God himself stood in our place and suffered in our place on the cross.

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That doesn't sound contradictory to me. It sounds like you, sir, have a problem with what

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God has revealed in his word and you are hell -bent, pardon the pun, but it's intended, you are hell -bent on making your own deity and using

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Christian lingo to wrap your false God up in. Defenders of this understanding of the cross, what's formally...

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Defenders of this understanding. This is what God's word reveals. This isn't an understanding. This is revealed word of God regarding what

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Christ did. Or penal substitutionary atonement, penal referring to punishment and substitution.

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Yeah, the thing that Isaiah taught, right? Yeah, that his, that by his wounds, you know, the chastisement, the punishment that brought us peace was upon him.

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Yeah, you mean Isaiah? Yeah. To Christ acting in our place. Explain that. God is love, but he's also just and therefore just can't allow sin to go unpunished without payment.

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Yeah, the people who say that do so with biblical text. What text do you have to say otherwise?

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But the obvious question is, why not? Why can't

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God do what he asked us to be able to? Why can't you just embrace what God has revealed about himself instead of judging

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God and obliterating clear passages of scripture? To freely forgive without demanding retribution first.

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Again, God suffered in our place. The retribution that God demanded,

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God satisfied himself. He bore our sins. What part of that do you not get?

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This is crazy. And yeah, I'm getting angry. Sorry, sorry.

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My apologies. I'm getting to the point of maybe sinful anger. I, yeah, you get the idea. This is just one big long litany of his opinions rather than a careful exegetical look at what

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God has revealed regarding what Christ did accomplish for us on the cross. And so, you know, if you attend a church where they're attacking the concept of Christ's vicarious penal substitutionary work on the cross, leave.

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You are not in a Christian church. They have changed the gospel. The gospel that Jesus revealed to the

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Apostle Paul is that Christ died for our sins. And that's a propitiatory, an expiatory, substitutionary, vicarious sacrifice so that you and I can be forgiven and pardoned and have peace with God.

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And God himself, God the Son, second person of the Holy Trinity, paid your debt for you.

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So the God who demands that his justice be satisfied then met his justice in himself in the person of Christ.

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It's very simple when you just let the Bible speak and tell you what Jesus accomplished rather than listening to yahoos like this who seem to think that their opinions can somehow rise above the scripture and obliterate clear passages of the

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Bible and what they say. And this, since this touches on the gospel, I would note the progressives believe a different gospel altogether than the biblical gospel.

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And as a result of that, they are in danger of facing the very wrath of God that they deny even exists.

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Very scary indeed. So hopefully you found this helpful. If so, all the information on how you can share the video is down below in the description, as well as the links to the articles mentioned in this video.

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And until next time, may God richly bless you in the grace and mercy won by Jesus Christ and his vicarious death on the cross for all of our sins.