"The finished work of Christ"
10 Jan 2007
I. Satisfaction of Christ
Systematic Theology by Charles Hodge: Priestly Intercession – When a priest intercedes he urges upon God the efficacy (effectiveness and power) of the sacrifice, and the authority of his office, as grounds on which his prayer should be answered. (Because of who I am and what your Son has done, answer my prayer.)
A. Two types of satisfaction
1. Commercial Satisfaction
a. Occurs when a debtor pays the exact amount owed.
b. Claim is on the debt, not the debtor. Anyone can pay it.
c. Such as someone owing $500.00 to the appliance store for a stove. Anyone could pay the $500.00. The owner just wants the debt paid; he does not care who pays it.
2. Penal Satisfaction
a. Demand of payment is on the offender.
b. Payment is not as important as the payer.
c. Whoever did the crime must pay.
d. Penalty is the just equivalent of the crime.
Example: If I steal something from the store, the store does not steal something back from me as punishment. I must pay my debt to society through imprisonment or fine. No one can pay that for me.
B. Justice demands real satisfaction
1. If you discovered a grisly murder, you would demand that the one who stands before the judge and is found guilty should receive the penalty.
2. You will not be satisfied if the judgment against the killer is 25 cents.
3. You would not want to see a man go to the gas chamber for stealing a loaf of bread.
4. God put is in us to want to see right judgment.
C. If you do not comprehend the degree of your sin, you cannot understand His righteousness.
D. If you see yourself as not so bad, you will see Jesus as not so good.
E. See Jesus as Holy, Sinless, Pure, and you sill see His sacrifice right.
F. When we repent, we need to see our sin deeply.
G. The more shallow our repentance, the more shallow our sanctification and righteousness.
H. Godly sorrow is imperative – not of us are okay.
I. If the satisfaction for our crime is Jesus Christ’s death on a cross, then our crime must have been awful, both commercially and penal.
J. Once the Judge of the earth looks down and sees us believing in the righteousness of His Son, believing that He paid the price, the demand on Justice is that we be saved.
K. He paid our crime both commercial and penal by becoming a man.
L. As our maker, HE was the only one who could pay it.
M. The benefit of His satisfaction flows to us on the condition of faith
1. Do we believe He paid the price?
2. Benefits of this satisfaction are received once and for all.
3. Also received slowly and gradually over time.
N. Thus we have the Victorious Sufferings of Christ – He suffered in our stead.
II. Four Theological Words that Deal with Satisfaction
A. Guilt
1. Demerit or mark against.
2. Obligation: I did it. I was wrong. Something I must do.
3. Christ takes the shame away and satisfies the obligation
B. Redemption
1. To deliver by purchase… Like paying a fine for someone and getting them out of jail
C. Expiation
1. To be cleared of the matter
D. Propitiation
1. Someone went in our stead. A representative.
III. The Satisfaction of Christ renders God’s love consistent with God’s justice.
A. Sin must receive God’s wrath.
B. Guilt is removed by His love, and He is appeased.
C. The law no longer condemns the sinner. The debt is paid.
IV. God cannot pardon sin unless the price for sin has been paid, because He is Just.
A. In Jesus the commercial and penal satisfaction is taken care of.
B. God could not fellowship with unholy, so found a way to make us like Him.
C. God gave the law, and it makes demands.
D. God is unchangeable, yet Jesus could satisfy the demand of the law.
E. We are no longer commanded to walk perfectly according to the law.
F. Even future sin has been satisfied
G. Satisfaction of Christ is the foundation of Justification
V. Theological Statements
Jesus or substitute did and endured all that the law commanded!
Those who receive His righteousness and are justified by faith receive the renewing of our nature to be like Him!
Those who refuse His righteousness and are determined to be a perfectionist are left with the demands of the law, which we can never satisfy.
A. The law must be fulfilled and demands perfect obedience
B. No human can satisfy the law, other than Christ.
C. Christ satisfied it for us.
D. We are therefore free from the law’s demands.
E. Faith in Him is now what is required.
F. We are not condemned
G. By His obedience we are reconciled, delivered from sin’s power, and made partakers of His life.
H. The great condemning sin that men commit is the rejection of Christ and the insistence that we need not Savior but can keep the law and save ourselves.
VI. Five Ways We Have Been Ransomed.
A. From the penalty of the Law.
B. From the keeping of the law.
Gal. 4:4-5 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, burn under the Law, in order that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
C. From the power of Sin.
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.
Titus 2:14 …who gave Himself for us, that HE might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
1Pet. 1:18-19 Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your fare fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, (the Blood) of Christ.
D. From the power of Satan
E. From all evil.
Matt. 6:33-34 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. There fore do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. (Each) day has enough trouble of its own.
Eph 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of Promise.
I. Satisfaction of Christ
Systematic Theology by Charles Hodge: Priestly Intercession – When a priest intercedes he urges upon God the efficacy (effectiveness and power) of the sacrifice, and the authority of his office, as grounds on which his prayer should be answered. (Because of who I am and what your Son has done, answer my prayer.)
A. Two types of satisfaction
1. Commercial Satisfaction
a. Occurs when a debtor pays the exact amount owed.
b. Claim is on the debt, not the debtor. Anyone can pay it.
c. Such as someone owing $500.00 to the appliance store for a stove. Anyone could pay the $500.00. The owner just wants the debt paid; he does not care who pays it.
2. Penal Satisfaction
a. Demand of payment is on the offender.
b. Payment is not as important as the payer.
c. Whoever did the crime must pay.
d. Penalty is the just equivalent of the crime.
Example: If I steal something from the store, the store does not steal something back from me as punishment. I must pay my debt to society through imprisonment or fine. No one can pay that for me.
B. Justice demands real satisfaction
1. If you discovered a grisly murder, you would demand that the one who stands before the judge and is found guilty should receive the penalty.
2. You will not be satisfied if the judgment against the killer is 25 cents.
3. You would not want to see a man go to the gas chamber for stealing a loaf of bread.
4. God put is in us to want to see right judgment.
C. If you do not comprehend the degree of your sin, you cannot understand His righteousness.
D. If you see yourself as not so bad, you will see Jesus as not so good.
E. See Jesus as Holy, Sinless, Pure, and you sill see His sacrifice right.
F. When we repent, we need to see our sin deeply.
G. The more shallow our repentance, the more shallow our sanctification and righteousness.
H. Godly sorrow is imperative – not of us are okay.
I. If the satisfaction for our crime is Jesus Christ’s death on a cross, then our crime must have been awful, both commercially and penal.
J. Once the Judge of the earth looks down and sees us believing in the righteousness of His Son, believing that He paid the price, the demand on Justice is that we be saved.
K. He paid our crime both commercial and penal by becoming a man.
L. As our maker, HE was the only one who could pay it.
M. The benefit of His satisfaction flows to us on the condition of faith
1. Do we believe He paid the price?
2. Benefits of this satisfaction are received once and for all.
3. Also received slowly and gradually over time.
N. Thus we have the Victorious Sufferings of Christ – He suffered in our stead.
II. Four Theological Words that Deal with Satisfaction
A. Guilt
1. Demerit or mark against.
2. Obligation: I did it. I was wrong. Something I must do.
3. Christ takes the shame away and satisfies the obligation
B. Redemption
1. To deliver by purchase… Like paying a fine for someone and getting them out of jail
C. Expiation
1. To be cleared of the matter
D. Propitiation
1. Someone went in our stead. A representative.
III. The Satisfaction of Christ renders God’s love consistent with God’s justice.
A. Sin must receive God’s wrath.
B. Guilt is removed by His love, and He is appeased.
C. The law no longer condemns the sinner. The debt is paid.
IV. God cannot pardon sin unless the price for sin has been paid, because He is Just.
A. In Jesus the commercial and penal satisfaction is taken care of.
B. God could not fellowship with unholy, so found a way to make us like Him.
C. God gave the law, and it makes demands.
D. God is unchangeable, yet Jesus could satisfy the demand of the law.
E. We are no longer commanded to walk perfectly according to the law.
F. Even future sin has been satisfied
G. Satisfaction of Christ is the foundation of Justification
V. Theological Statements
Jesus or substitute did and endured all that the law commanded!
Those who receive His righteousness and are justified by faith receive the renewing of our nature to be like Him!
Those who refuse His righteousness and are determined to be a perfectionist are left with the demands of the law, which we can never satisfy.
A. The law must be fulfilled and demands perfect obedience
B. No human can satisfy the law, other than Christ.
C. Christ satisfied it for us.
D. We are therefore free from the law’s demands.
E. Faith in Him is now what is required.
F. We are not condemned
G. By His obedience we are reconciled, delivered from sin’s power, and made partakers of His life.
H. The great condemning sin that men commit is the rejection of Christ and the insistence that we need not Savior but can keep the law and save ourselves.
VI. Five Ways We Have Been Ransomed.
A. From the penalty of the Law.
B. From the keeping of the law.
Gal. 4:4-5 But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, burn under the Law, in order that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
C. From the power of Sin.
John 8:34 Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.
Titus 2:14 …who gave Himself for us, that HE might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
1Pet. 1:18-19 Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your fare fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, (the Blood) of Christ.
D. From the power of Satan
E. From all evil.
Matt. 6:33-34 Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. There fore do not be anxious for tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. (Each) day has enough trouble of its own.
Eph 1:13 In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of Promise.
Steve Youngblood
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