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SOURCE: 19th Century Occult Revival by Dr. Barbara Aho.

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Psychical Research Past and Present;
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Parapsychology and the UFO . . ." Society for Psychical Research,
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"The Ultimate Object of the Cross is God Himself".

from: Penal Substitution and Other Atonement Theologies.
by STEPHEN WELLUM.

In THE PENAL (SUBSTITUTIONARY PROPITIATIONARY)
SATISFACTION ATONEMENT (THEOLOGY VIEW);

"The Triune God, in His Son, is taking His Own Demand on Himself
so that we, in Christ, may be Justified before Him (Rom. 5:1–2)."

WE MUST SEE;

that: The Primary Person we have sinned against is God,

and as such,

"The Ultimate Object of the Cross is God Himself."
...

"The Bible’s Presentation of the Cross is rich and multifaceted.
It is like a beautiful gem that can be looked at from many angles.

"Yet, the explanation of The Cross’s Central Means is that
Christ Jesus has come as our Mediator and New Covenant Head
to Offer Himself before God on behalf of sin.

"Penal Substitution best accounts for:

"Why the Divine Son had to Die,

"and Why He Alone Saves.

"With Paul, may we alone glory in and may,
"we preach Christ crucified".
(1 Cor. 1:23)."

"Various Atonement Theologies
emphasize many Biblical Truths and entailments of the cross,

"but unlike Penal Substitution, they fail to grasp;

"The Central Problem that the Cross Remedies,
namely, our sin before God."
...

 

from: Penal Substitution and Other Atonement Theologies.
by STEPHEN WELLUM.

"Every view of the Atonement stresses
something true about the cross.

"Recapitulation rightly grasps the Adam-Christ Relationship
across Redemptive History (Rom. 5:12–21).

"In the first Adam, God Demanded Covenantal Obedience,
yet sadly, Adam disobeyed
and brought sin and death into the world.

"What is needed is The Incarnation of God’s Son, the last Adam,
to Live and die for us, and thus restore us
to the Purpose of our Creation (Heb. 2:5–18).

"Yet, this Recapitulation view does not emphasize enough

"that God requires Perfect Covenantal Obedience from us,

"AND the need for Christ to be our Representative in life
and Penal Substitute in death.

"It rightly stresses many Biblical Truths,
but fails to grasp adequately The God-law-sin Relationship."
...

"Similarly, Christus Victor emphasizes many Glorious Truths.

"It underscores the need for the Son to become human
to crush Satan’s head (Gen. 3:15)"

"and to defeat sin (Heb. 9:26)"

"and death (Rom. 6:9)."

"Yet, this Christus Victor view does not
make central the God-law-sin Relationship.

"In Scripture, the Powers of sin, Death, and Satan
are only over us because of our sin before God
(Gen. 2:17; Rom. 6:23; Heb. 2:14–15).

"After all,

"Why did the Divine Son have to die to Defeat the Powers?

"Why not simply Exert His Divine Power
to defeat them without the cross?

"Scripture’s answer is clear:
it’s only when our sin is Paid for that the Powers are Destroyed
(Col. 2:13–15; 1 Cor. 15:55–57).

"This is why our greatest problem is not the powers against us,
but how we can stand Justified before God.

Christus Victor without Penal Substitution hangs in mid-air.
...

"Scripture also presents Christ and His cross
as The Supreme Moral Example of Love, Obedience, and Suffering
(John 13:12–17; Eph. 5:1–2, 25–27; Phil. 2:5–11; 1 Pet. 2:18–25).

"But the cross only functions this way,

"because of Who Dies and What He Achieves,
namely, The Full Penal Satisfaction
of God’s Holy Demand against our sin,

"which is the very Demonstration of Divine Love (1 John 4:7–10)."

"Also, it’s never enough for Christ merely to Identify with us
in His Incarnation and show us how to live.

"Solidarity is not Atonement; it is only the prerequisite.

"We need more than an Example to Redeem us.

"What we need is for The Divine Son to live and die for us.

"Our problem is not that we need a great teacher
to show us how to live.

"Our problem is sin before The Triune Holy God,
and this problem requires the Enfleshment of God’s Own Son

"to Live for us and to Die for us as our Penal Substitute.

"It is only as our Propitiatory Sacrifice that God’s Own
Righteous Demand is Fully Met,

"and only in Christ do we receive all
the Glorious Benefits of His New Covenant Work.
...

"Of all the Atonement views, only Penal Substitution
best captures the God-centered nature of the cross.

"The Alternatives either Minimize or Deny:

1) "That God’s Holy Justice is Essential to Him,"

2) "Why our sin is First against God (Ps. 51:4),"

and 3) "Why Christ as our Penal Substitute is Central to the Cross."

"Before we can speak of the Horizontal Results of the Cross
(e.g., Moral Example, Inter-Personal Reconciliation, etc.),

"We must first speak of the Vertical; namely:

"The Triune God, in His Son, taking His Own Demand on Himself
so that we, in Christ, may be Justified before Him (Rom. 5:1–2).

"The other views miss this point.

"For them, The Object of the Cross is either;

"our sin (forms of Recapitulation),

"or Satan (Ransom Theory),

"or the powers (forms of Christus Victor).

"But what they fail to see is that
The Primary Person we have sinned against is God,

"and as such, The Ultimate Object of the Cross is God Himself."

 

He's talking about, if a person is lost,
for them to 'earn salvation by obedience to the law of God",

God would have to require Perfect Covenantal Obedience from them.

And that Perfect Covenantal Obedience would have to be maintained
without sinning against any point of the law, at any time in their life,
from their conception, until they died.

A created human being has to be Perfect to enter into Heaven.

And, God Runs Heaven.

A human soul would have to live their lifetime, Perfectly, like Jesus.

"For as many as are of the works of the law
are under the curse:
for it is written,

"Cursed is everyone
that continueth not in all things
which are written in the book of the law to do them."

A human soul would have to live their lifetime, Perfectly like Jesus,
AND REMAIN IN PERFECT OBEDIENCE TO:
"...not The Ceremonial Law,
which was abolished when this Covenant was made,"

"but rather" The Moral Law still in force,
which is a Transcript of The Nature and Will of God;
(The Ten Commandments, etc.)

and "was inscribed on Adam's heart in innocence;"

Paul speaks of that Moral Law of God that was placed into his soul,
in the Spiritual Regeneration of The New Birth;
22; "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:

25; "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So then with the mind, I myself serve the law of God;

This is "the" (Moral) "law of God" (25b, above),
"that is Reinscribed into the saved person's soul, in Regeneration;

"and hence regard is had to it by Regenerate persons,
in which lies part of their Conformity to Christ,"

like those in Corinth, who were,

"declared to be the epistle of Christ,"
"written...with the Spirit of the Living God..."
"in fleshy tables of the heart,"

i.e., II Corinthians 3:3; "Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared
to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us,

"written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the Living God;
not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart."

con't:

 

But IN THE SOUL BEFORE SALVATION,
the Moral Law of God that was Implanted into Adam,
has been and "is greatly obliterated by sin,"

and even in the FLESH of the SAVED SOUL,
SIN IS STILL "WARRING" AGAINST THE SPIRIT

and this is called, "The Law of Sin"
that is "a Contrary Disposition" (or Opposite)
to" the Moral Law of God "now in man",

Then, as a saved soul, Paul says,
"with the flesh", he served, "the law of sin."

Romans 7:18;
"For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:

"for to will is present with me;
but how to perform that which is good I find not.

19; "For the good that I would I do not:
but the evil which I would not, that I do.

20; "Now if I do that I would not,
it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.

21; "I find then a law, ("The Law of Sin")
"that, when I would do good,
"evil is present with me."

23; "But I see another law in my members, (...wait for it!...)
warring against the law of my mind,
and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin (there it is!)
which is in my members.
...

So, Jeremiah 31:34 is talking about after God has saved their soul
and "the" (Moral) "law of God" (25b),
is Reinscribed into the saved person's soul, in Regeneration,

God says, "they shall all know Me,..." (in the experience of salvation),

"for I Will Forgive their iniquity,
and I Will Remember their sin no more."

THIS IS WHERE WE HAVE:

So, it is through Jesus Christ's Obedience to The Moral Law of God,
when HE LIVED A PERFECT LIFE, in TOTAL RIGHTEOUSNESS

AND: Perfect Covenantal Obedience, WHICH GOD REQUIRED OF HIM,
SINCE GOD IS JUST, THEREFORE, HIS JUSTICE REQUIRES IT,

THEN, WE SEE JESUS'

IN JESUS' ATONEMENT, HE SACRIFICED HIS PERFECT LIFE,
IN PLACE OF, or IN THE STEAD OF, or AS THE SURETY FOR,
THE GUILTY SOUL WHOSE SIN HAD ETERNALLY OFFENDED GOD,
AND MADE SATISFACTION FOR THEIR SINS TO THE UTTERMOST,

That God could say, "they shall all know Me,..."
"for I Will Forgive their iniquity,
and I Will Remember their sin no more."

Paul put it like this: 24; "O wretched man that I am!
Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

25; "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God..."

Jesus is The Savior.

Jeremiah 31:34;

"And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor,
and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD:

"for they shall all know Me,
from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD;

"for I Will Forgive their iniquity,
and I Will Remember their sin no more."

Through The Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ.

New Thread:
Need a "TOPIC" to Preach on, tomorrow?
How about, "The Blood Atonement of Jesus Christ"?