The NXR Podcast - DAILY TRUTH - Jesus Christ： The Supreme Example of Sacrificial Love

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00:00:31.000 First and foremost, the death of Jesus Christ, before it is a demonstration, before it is

00:00:37.900 an example, it is first and foremost payment. The death of Jesus Christ is first and foremost

00:00:44.800 atonement. The death of Jesus Christ is first and foremost God the Father putting Christ his

00:00:51.160 Son forward as a propitiation for all who would believe. That is a propitiation, a satisfying

00:00:57.740 sacrifice that Jesus was put forward on the altar as it were in the same way that the bulls and

00:01:05.180 goats would be bled out on the altar in the priestly sacrificial system of Israel and the

00:01:11.240 blood as it would flow down the rocks of the altar would satisfy the just and righteous wrath of God

00:01:17.940 not merely for sins but for sinners remember brothers and sisters that God will not eternally

00:01:24.900 be punishing in the fire of hell the theoretical sin of lust, the spirit of greed, but rather God

00:01:34.380 will be justly punishing not just sins in hell, but he will be punishing sinners. He will not be

00:01:41.360 punishing lust, but those who are perverts. He will not be punishing murder, but murderers,

00:01:47.720 not deceit but liars. God was righteously and justly angry not merely at sin but at

00:01:55.660 sinners and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was a propitiation a satisfying pleasing

00:02:03.380 offering that God himself put forward in order to justly satisfy his own wrath not merely towards

00:02:13.480 sin, but sinners. So first and foremost, the death of Jesus on the cross is atonement. It is payment

00:02:21.560 for sin. But in addition to this, not at the expense, but in addition to this, it is right

00:02:30.400 for us to see the death of Jesus Christ as an example, as an example that we too should follow.

00:02:37.940 Christ says to his disciples,

00:02:41.000 love has no one greater than this,

00:02:43.160 that a man should lay down his life for his friends.

00:02:47.260 There is a noble example set forth in the cross of Christ

00:02:51.620 that all those who claim to follow him

00:02:53.880 should seek to imitate,

00:02:56.660 that we should love others at the cost of ourselves.

00:03:00.600 So there's an example in the death of Jesus

00:03:03.000 that we should follow.

00:03:03.980 there is first and foremost payment in the death of jesus that satisfies the wrath of god

00:03:11.020 but there is also a demonstration in the death of jesus namely a demonstration of god's great love

00:03:18.660 for us that god was not only reaching out to those who were lovely that god was not only

00:03:25.840 making atonement or sacrifice for those who were good and wonderful and god was not only making a

00:03:33.340 way of reconciliation, of forgiveness of sin for those who were neutral or indifferent or useless.

00:03:40.140 But as I preached last week, God was reconciling his enemies.

00:03:46.540 Jesus gave his life and bled out and died in order to pay for the sins of God's enemies,

00:03:53.200 for those who stood in opposition toward God. Thanks so much for listening. But real quick,

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The NXR Podcast - May 02, 2022

DAILY TRUTH - Jesus Christ： The Supreme Example of Sacrificial Love

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