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 Welcome everyone. Pens, handouts, Bibles.

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 Just, well I guess one notice, half term next week, so no Sunday school.

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! We'll restart the Sunday after that and we're going to be staying in the Atonement.

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 So this is going to be a mega series on the Atonement because there's lots to say on this.

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 And I've got recordings if you've missed any. Let's pray.

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 Lord God, we thank you for this new day, this new week.

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 We thank you for Christ and all that he has done for us, his obedience, his sacrifice.

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 We thank you for the cross. And as we just dive deeper into understanding our glorious salvation,

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 please help us. By your spirit would we grasp these wonderful and weighty things.

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 And please give us great assurance today knowing that Christ has died for us.

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 He has taken our guilt away. Would we truly know that in our hearts? In Jesus' name. Amen.

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 So if you haven't been here, we've been thinking about the Atonement this term.

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 And so the Atonement, it refers to the cross, all that Christ was doing on the cross.

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 And in fact, all his life, as we saw last week, his life and his cross is all connected.

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 And what have we seen so far? We have seen that we need Atonement.

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 So the world is as it is. It is fractured. It is a sinful mess.

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 Because we have fractured our relationship with God.

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 So we are meant to be living communion with God to have a good, a right relationship with them.

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 But now there is the debt of sin above us.

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 There is wrath on God's part toward us because of that sin.

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 And so there is a broken relationship.

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 And so we need Atonement.

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 There are three kind of ingredients to Atonement relating to the three needs of sin.

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 So we need our debt paid for.

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 We need redemption.

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 We need propitiation.

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 So God's wrath is against us.

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 We need that wrath to go somewhere else to be satisfied, for God's wrath to be appeased.

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 And through all that, we need reconciliation.

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 We need to be brought back to God.

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 We aren't at one with God because of our sin.

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 And so we need Atonement.

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 That's what it means.

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 Being at one with God.

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 And how does this happen?

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 Well, we saw in the Old Testament, we need a sacrifice, right?

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 The wrath needs to go somewhere.

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 The debt needs to go somewhere.

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 God's justice demands that.

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 He can't just forget it, sweep it under the rug.

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 Something needs to be punished for sin.

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 And so we saw in the Old Testament that that happened in the sacrifice.

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 So I'll put the cross here, but you can put the lamb there, right?

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 That happened in the sacrificial system.

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 And so, but that didn't work.

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 And so we find our need for atonement fulfilled on the cross.

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 So Christ substitutes in for us.

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 This is his people.

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 He substitutes in for us.

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 He's a sacrifice for us.

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 The debt goes on to him.

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 The sin, the guilt goes on to him.

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 The punishment, the wrath falls on him.

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 And he dies for us.

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 And we saw also, who does he die for?

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 Who's the us?

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 It's his people.

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 It's the elect.

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 Those on his belt.

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 He's carrying a people with him.

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 And he dies for them.

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 And therefore, he atones for our sins.

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 And last week, we saw this involves not only his death, but his whole life.

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 So do you remember our atonement chart?

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 So this is our atonement chart, right?

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 So as soon as he's born, he is obeying and suffering for us.

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 And it's a whole life of obedience and suffering.

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 And then at the cross, it kind of climaxes, right?

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 So his life isn't disconnected from his death.

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 It's all one big act of obedience.

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 Climax in the cross.

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 That's Philippians 2.

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 Obedient to the point of death.

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 Even death on the cross.

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 That's a title and that's a cross.

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 They look the same.

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 There we go.

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 And now today, so that's a bit of a recap.

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 Now today, I want us to think about Christ's sacrifice even deeper.

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 I want us to think about why Christ's sacrifice was so perfect.

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 What is it about Jesus and the cross that was good enough to cover our sins and to bring us back to God?

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 Why would nothing else do except the cross of Christ?

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 Why is it so perfect?

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 And so I want us to jump into that.

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 And I want us to see the atonement is perfect.

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 So we've seen that we need a sacrifice.

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 That's the shape, the need that we, that's the shape of the atonement.

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 That's our need.

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 God's wrath needs to fall somewhere.

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 Justice demands payment needs to be made by someone in some way.

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 And so we saw a few weeks ago, God set up the sacrificial system in the Old Testament, didn't he?

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 So the tabernacle, the goats, the bulls, the sacrifices.

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 That was all in shape, right?

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 There was a death on Israel, there was a wrath of God, and it would fall on a sacrifice.

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 God was showing us the shape of the atonement.

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 And God was providing for that need.

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 But that didn't work, did it?

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 And I want us to ask, why didn't that work?

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 Why weren't the Old Testament sacrifices good enough to actually bring atonement?

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 Well, if we answer that, we're going to see why Christ is able to save us,

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 and why his cross was so perfect to save us.

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 And I want you to see that in Hebrews.

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 I want you to break out into groups and answer these two big questions using the verses below them.

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 What are the problems with the Old Testament sacrifices?

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 There are a few.

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 I've got a few here.

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 And what is different about Christ's sacrifice compared to the Old Testament sacrifices?

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 Again, there are a few answers to each question.

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 So break out into groups.

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 I'll give you five minutes for this.

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 infinitely deep when he went to the bank. And the Canons of Dort, I've got that there for you,

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 it really helpfully spells this out. So the Canons of Dort is a reformed document spelling

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 out the reformed faith, basically. So it's a bit like the Westminster Confession of Faith.

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 And it says this, Article 2.3, the death of God's son is the only and entirely complete sacrifice

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 and satisfaction for sins. It is of infinite value and worth, more than sufficient to atone for the

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 sins of the world. And why? The reason for this is this death is of such great value and worth for

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 the reason that the person who suffered it is, as was necessary to be our saviour, he was not only a

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 true and perfectly holy human, but also the only begotten son of God of the same eternal and

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 infinite essence, nature, being, as God. Same with the Father and the Holy Spirit. And the

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 Westminster Confession says a similar thing. Why was it required that the mediator, our saviour,

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 should be God, as well as man? It was required that the mediator should be God, that he might

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 sustain and keep the human nature from sinking under the infinite wrath of God. And you need an

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 infinite payment to take an infinite wrath. And the power of death as well. And it was so that it was

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 to give worth and efficacy to his sufferings, infinite worth to his sufferings, obedience and intercession.

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 And so he could satisfy God's justice. And this is key to why the atonement is so perfect.

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 Our sins are infinite. God's wrath is infinite. And so only an infinitely valuable person can atone for

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 our sins, which is exactly what happened on the cross. And let me finish with this. And this is why,

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 if we think about Betty, this is why there is no sin too great to forgive. This is why Jesus saves to

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 the uttermost. To think we or someone that we know is too bad for Jesus to forgive. It's to say that the

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 value of Jesus' life, it's too small to pay for their sins. And that is utterly impossible.

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 And so this means every single bit of our sin and guilt and debt is being completely paid for.

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 To say some of my sins aren't paid for, maybe God is angry with some of these really bad ones that

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 I've done in my life. That is to say Christ isn't valuable enough to pay for them, which is impossible.

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 No, because Jesus is divine. Therefore, it really is finished once and for all.

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 How are we for time? One minute for questions. Go for it.

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