The Person of our Lord Jesus Christ: His Central Work - His death on the Cross

1. The Death of Christ.

   

1. The Importance of the Death of Christ:

The Outstanding Event and the Central Doctrine of the New Testament may be summed up in the Words of the Apostle Paul “Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures.” 1 Cor. 15:3

The Atoning death of Christ is the unique feature of Christianity. 

Martin Luther said that the Christian Doctrine was distinguished from every other kind, especially from that which seems to be ‘Christian’ by the fact that it is the Doctrine of the Cross. The whole battle of the reformation was for the right interpretation of the Cross. That He who understands the Cross rightly, understands the Christ and the Bible, was the Teaching of the Reformers.

It is this unique feature of the Gospels which makes Christianity the religion; for the problem is the sin problem, and the religion which makes perfect provision for the deliverance from the guilt and power of sin has a divine finality. Jesus is the Author of “Eternal Salvation” i.e. Final Salvation; all that salvation can mean is secured by Him.M.P. p.171

Heb 5:7  For Jesus, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard in that He feared,

Heb 5:8  though being a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.

Heb 5:9  And being perfected, He became the Author of eternal salvation to all those who obey Him,

Heb 5:10  being called by God a high priest after the order of Melchizedek;

b. The Meaning of the Death of Christ.

There is a certain true relationship between man and his Maker; but something happened that destroyed this relationship. Not only is man far from God, and unlike God in character, but there is an obstacle so great that man cannot remove it by his own efforts.

That Obstacle is SIN and thus GUILT, which means man as a sinner is condemned by God.

Man cannot remove this obstacle; only God can bring deliverance from this huge obstacle. God took the initiative to save man.

That God has done this is the Testimony of the Scriptures. He sent His Son from Heaven to earth to remove this obstacle, this barrier to our relationship with God.

Jesus bore the debt that we should have paid. He accomplished for us what was impossible for us to do. He did this by obeying the Will of God the Father. This is the essence of the ATONEMENT.

Rom 5:6  For we yet being without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Rom 5:7  For one will with difficulty die for a righteous one, yet perhaps one would even dare to die for a good one.

Rom 5:8  But God commends His love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us.

Rom 5:9  Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

Rom 5:10  For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

If the Death of Christ is the Central Teaching of the new Testament, why is there so little Exposition on the Atonement and the Salvation wrought by Christ on the Cross of Calvary?

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The Person of Christ: His Work.

Notes from Myer Pearlman Knowing the Doctrines of the Bible.

Introduction.

The Major Work which Christ performed was to die for the sins of the world.

Mat 1:21  And she shall bear a son, and you shall call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins.

Joh 1:29  The next day John sees Jesus coming to him and says, Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Included in this atoning work is the Death, the Burial, the Resurrection and the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus.

He must not only die for, but also live for us; He must not only rise from the dead but also ascend to intercede for before the Throne of God.

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Rom 8:34  Who is he condemning? It is Christ who has died, but rather also who is raised, who is also at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.

Rom 4:24  but for us also to whom it is to be imputed, to the ones believing on Him who has raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

Rom 4:25  who was delivered because of our offenses and was raised for our justification.

Rom 5:10  For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

Questions for Research and Review.

1. What is the central doctrine of the New Testament?

1Co 15:1  And, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and in which you stand;

1Co 15:2  by which you also are being kept safe, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

1Co 15:3  For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures,

1Co 15:4  and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures;

2. Why is the Preaching of the Cross so important to Christianity?

3. If the Human Condition of sin, is the problem with mankind, how did Jesus deliver us from the Guilt and power of sin? Hebrews 5:9

4. Why can’t man remove the sin problem on his own by his own efforts?

5. Explain how deliverance came from God's side?

6. What is the real meaning of ‘atonement’?

7. How was Christ’s Vicarious Atonement prefigured in the Old Testament?

The Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ

Memorize:

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, each one to his own way; and Jehovah has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Col 1:19  For it pleased the Father that in Him all fullness should dwell.

Col 1:20  And through Him having made peace through the blood of His cross, it pleased the Father to reconcile all things to Himself through Him, whether the things on earth or the things in Heaven.

1Pe 2:24  He Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that dying to sins, we might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed. MKJV

Act 20:28  Therefore take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God which He has purchased with His own blood.