Dale Partridge - How God Deals With Sin - Dale Partridge

00:00:00.200 As I've taught in previous sermons,

00:00:01.680 God cannot simply overlook sin.

00:00:04.840 God cannot overlook sin.

00:00:06.460 He doesn't just,

00:00:08.180 he can't just like save people

00:00:09.420 without dealing with their sin.

00:00:11.600 Somebody has to pay for the sin.

00:00:13.180 It's gotta either be laid on the shoulders of the savior

00:00:15.980 or laid on the shoulders of the sinner.

00:00:18.240 But somebody has gotta pay for the sin

00:00:20.120 because he's not an unjust God.

00:00:22.160 He cannot just choose to not remember our sin.

00:00:25.040 Otherwise he would be lacking justice.

00:00:28.040 So how does God save the Old Testament saints

00:00:32.260 if the atoning work of the cross

00:00:34.420 had not yet been accomplished?

00:00:36.180 That's a core question.

00:00:37.600 And that's the basis of Romans 3, 21 through 26,

00:00:42.940 which really talks about the idea

00:00:44.220 that the righteousness of God has been manifested.

00:00:50.280 Christ has come, you can see him now.

00:00:52.480 And all that sin of the Old Testament 0.97

00:00:55.000 that you might have thought was overlooked

00:00:59.300 is now being paid for on that cross.

00:01:02.240 God was essentially not slow,

00:01:06.620 but came at the perfect time so that he could be,

00:01:09.580 as Romans 3 says, the just and the justifier

00:01:13.080 of the one who has faith in Jesus.

00:01:15.380 And so all that sin of the Old Testament saints

00:01:20.000 was essentially paid for on that cross 0.89

00:01:22.820 and all the sin of the New Testament saints 0.63

00:01:25.320 was paid for on that cross.

00:01:28.400 And so God sent Jesus again at the appropriate time

00:01:31.100 to demonstrate that he's not unjust,

00:01:33.340 and he did not overlook those sins

00:01:35.500 of the Old Testament saints,

00:01:37.420 and that essentially all sin will be paid for,

00:01:42.420 again, by the sinner or by the savior.

00:01:45.620 And so to answer the question,

00:01:47.060 how did God justify the Old Testament saints?

00:01:49.960 We have to see that while the cross had not occurred

00:01:52.820 in physical time, until Christ came, God lives outside of time. And so there's an eternal

00:02:00.120 application of the atonement of Christ to all who believed before and after the cross. And so Luke

00:02:08.340 24, 44 through 47 says, then he said to them, these are my words that I spoke to you while I

00:02:15.660 was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets

00:02:19.080 and the Psalms must be fulfilled.

00:02:21.520 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures

00:02:23.740 and said to them, thus it is written

00:02:25.480 that the Christ should suffer

00:02:26.980 and on the third day rise from the dead

00:02:29.680 and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins

00:02:32.980 should be proclaimed in his name

00:02:34.720 to all nations beginning from Jerusalem.

00:02:38.600 So again, even in the Old Testament,

00:02:40.300 we see this again, this two-part process

00:02:42.960 of atonement and imputation of righteousness.

00:02:46.900 And we talked about the atonement.

00:02:47.960 let's just briefly talk about the imputation of righteousness in the Old Testament. Isaiah 53, 11,

00:02:52.880 talking about the Messiah. Out of the anguish of his soul, he shall see and be satisfied. By his

00:02:58.800 knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear

00:03:05.940 their iniquities. Zechariah 3, 4. And the angel said to those who were standing before him,

00:03:11.380 remove the filthy garments from him. That's the atonement, taking the sin away. And to him,

00:03:17.520 he said, quote, behold, I have taken your iniquity away from you and I will clothe you with pure

00:03:24.160 vestments. That's imputation. Isaiah 61.10, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall

00:03:30.600 exult in my God for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the

00:03:36.540 robe of righteousness as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress

00:03:40.500 and as a bride adorns herself with jewels, end quote.

00:03:45.940 Augustus Toddplay, or not Toddplay, Augustus Toplady,

00:03:49.960 that's a funny last name.

00:03:51.620 He wrote some great psalms or in hymns with Charles Wesley.

00:03:56.280 And they have a famous song that you probably have sung

00:03:59.600 called Rock of Ages.

00:04:01.220 And in that hymn, there's a stanza that says,

00:04:04.620 let the water and the blood from thy wounded side,

00:04:07.600 which flowed. Be of sin the double cure. Save from wrath and make me pure. Okay, the double cure

00:04:15.800 here means this two-part structure. The imputation or the atonement of sin and the imputation of

00:04:24.020 righteousness. We must be saved from wrath, which again is that atonement, the blotting out of our

00:04:30.420 sins, and we must be made pure, which is the imputation of righteousness through faith. And so

00:04:35.980 So as Paul demonstrates here in Romans

00:04:37.620 by the evidence of the Old Testament,

00:04:38.940 this is how God has always saved his people

00:04:41.940 by the atonement of sin through the Messiah

00:04:46.280 that was coming at the appropriate time

00:04:49.400 and through the imputation of righteousness

00:04:51.160 that was coming at the appropriate time

00:04:53.440 that we get to receive through faith.

00:04:55.800 And so we have far more clarity

00:04:57.780 on the side of the cross than they did,

00:05:00.080 but God's way of salvation has always been through faith.

00:05:05.980 We'll be right back.

Dale Partridge - February 28, 2023

How God Deals With Sin - Dale Partridge

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