The Supreme Malediction

Reformation is needed in almost every day. If all within years of founding the Corinthian congregation needs to see them reforms we can't be surprised the churches need reforming regularly in the history of the church.

Sometimes that reform is more the nature of a revitalization, but I think people have, especially in America, been to content to be satisfied with entertainment and with shallowness and we need a seriousness about God about Christ and about his word and I think should be drawn again to passionate interest in the word is gonna take a major Reformation of the church today. My hope is that this series will serve the church by causing people to reflect on what the church ought to be. According to the word of God, the necessity of reforming the church teaching series with W.

Robert Godfrey visit Lincoln here.org/teaching series to learn more Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law. Listings not simply by being cursed for us, but becoming a curse for us.

He who is the incarnation of the glory of God. Now becomes the very incarnation of the divine curse Jesus experienced unimaginable physical pain and torture but even more devastating was the rejection of God the father. We hear the echoes of my God, my God, why have you forsaken me today on Renewing Your Mind.

Dr. RC scroll explains why all of this was necessary to accomplish our salvation and the imagery of atonement on the day of atonement. We know that there are several animals involved in the ritual of that day the priest before they can enter into the holy of holies, where the high priest that only the high priest and only this one day of the year can go must first himself make a blood sacrifice, and goes through an elaborate process of purification and then there are two more animals involved one. Let's kill the the other that survives the one that is Carol yields his blood which they provide three states into the inner sanctum and sprinkles on the mercy seat sprinkles on the throne of Yahweh to bring reconciliation and yet in this drama. There is no power in that blood other than it's pointing forward to the blood of the Lamb, even as the blood on the door posts on the night of Passover pointed beyond itself to Christ our pass over who is sacrifice for us. We know two things from the day of atonement, one that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.

We also learn from the author of Hebrews that the blood of bulls and goats cannot take away sin. But in that half of the drama with the blood sacrifice that is sprinkled on the mercy seat.

What is symbolized is an active propitiation, which some brilliant translators in the middle of the 20th century decided that they got of the New Testament, to their everlasting shame. Those two words that are so central to the core of the gospel propitiation expiation. What's the difference they have the same root, but different prefix. I want our people at St. Andrews's in Sanford, Florida always understand propitiation expiation if they're going understand the gospel and I tell them I said, you know, our churches, building the classical style that's called the cruciform so that if you looked at it from the air. The shape of our building form is the shape of a cross in the Savior come down the center. I'll let it remind you of the vertical piece of the cross, let it remind you of propitiation because in propitiation the son does something to satisfy the justice and the wrath of the father is a vertical transaction. That is what is prefigured in this sacrifice that is made on the mercies.

Let's not forget that other animal that liberal theologians try every which way to a race. From the biblical record as we've already heard.

Yes I'm speaking of the goat. The scapegoats who become the objects of imputation where the priest now lays his hands on the back of that goat symbolically indicating the transfer or the imputation of the guilt of the people back of that go so at the end of that ceremony priest lays his hands on the note says by the sins of the people be upon this gulp and then says to the goat, thank you very much for standing still boring. This and he says the people you are dismissed. No no no no significance really reaches its crescendo after the imputation of the sin of the people to the back of the goat when the goat is driven then in to the wilderness out side that can remember when God numbered the people according to the tribes and they pitched the tabernacle, the tribes were in a circle and what was in the middle equidistant of every settlement of every tribe was the tabernacle, indicating God is in the midst of his people and to be driven and hopes of the covenant community to be driven outside the camp was to be driven to the place where the blessings of God did not reach sense into the outer darkness in the wilderness into exile, into the curse. That's expiation when in the cross. Not only is the father justice satisfied by the atoning work of his son, but in bearing our sins, the Lamb of God removes our sins from us as far as the east is from the west how to do it by being cursed.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law.

Listeners not simply by being cursed for us, but becoming a curse for us. He who is the incarnation of the glory of God. Now becomes the very incarnation of the divine curse as it is written, cursed is everyone who hangs upon the tree many many years ago I was asked by the Quaker community of Pennsylvania. The society friend to come to one of their meetings and explain to them the difference between the old covenant and the new covenant. And there I talked about the day of atonement in Israel and the crucifixion of Christ in the New Testament. In this I spoke of price becoming cars.

My message was interrupted by guy in the back who stood up and shouted out loud that's primitive and obscene that ran view the bridge. I was taken back in just to give myself a chance to think I said what did you say as if I didn't hear from everybody in the room. Part of what is and with great hostility. He said I said that's primitive and obscene. I sent you right. I love the words that you have chosen to describe this dynamic. What could be more primitive than killing animals and sticking their blood over the throne of God or taking a human being and pouring out his blog is a human sacrifice that is primitive, you're right, no one of the things I love about the gospel's are is that it wasn't written merely for a Gnostic elite group of scholars who had to have their PhD in theology and order to understand but the drama of redemption is communicated in terms so simple, so crass, so primitive that a child can understand, but I really like the second word do you see I see if there ever was an obscenity that violates contemporary community steam. It was Jesus on the cross because after he became the scapegoat and the father imputes to him every sin of every one of his, we see the most intense dance concentration of evil ever experienced on this planet. Jesus was the ultimate obscenity and so what happened Bible tells us God is too holy to even look at sin and he cannot bear to look at this concentrated monumental condensation of evil, and his eyes are averted from his the light of his countenance is turned off all blessedness is removed from his son Camilla and in its place was the full measure of the divine curse all the imagery that portrays the historical event of the cross is the imagery of the curse, it was necessary for the Scriptures to be fulfilled.

The Jesus not be crucified by Joe's but it has to be delivered into the hands of the Gentiles has to be executed not by stoning. But he has to be killed by Gentiles outside the camp outside Jerusalem, the Ganga so that the full measure of the curse in the darkness that attends it be visited upon Jesus and God adds to these details astronomical perturbations where it day he turns the lights out on that hill outside of Jerusalem, so that when his face is moved away when the light of his countenance is shut down.

Even the sun don't shine until bearing the full measure of the curse Christ springs, so not my God, my God, why have you forsaken me.

Look at how the theologians play with that of what Jesus was taking this occasion to identify with the psalmist in Psalm 22, which begins with those words so they can call attention to those who are looking upon the spectacle that this is really a fulfillment of prophecy the Jesus was in the Bible quoting move that worse Albert Schweitzer find this was a cry of a dissolution prophet who believed that God was going to rescue in at the 11 hour and he felt for sick and just feel for sick he was for sick for Jesus to become the curse he has to be utterly totally and completely forsaken by the father. I start off by saying to you. I've been thinking about these things for 50 years and I can't begin to penetrate that what it meant. The Jesus was site back but there is none of this to be found in the pseudo-gospels of our day, dear brothers every time I hear a preacher on television or live who says to his people. God loves you on.

Additionally, I want to ask this man be defrocked for such a violation of the word of God. What pagan who hears that announcement that God loves them unconditionally does not hear in that statement that he has no need of repentance. They can continue in sin without fear knowing that is all taken care of that God doesn't hold a grudge is that God loves them. There is a profound sense in which God does love people even in their corruption, but their spell under his anathema. I know that almost everybody here is a minister related to a minister, and so on. But you know this because your ordained is no guarantee that you are in the kingdom of God and with the size of professing Christians assembled a one-off. The odds are astronomical, that there are many people in this room right now who were still under the curse of God yet fled to the cross were still counting on this nebulous idea of the unconditional love of God to get them through, or even were still thinking that they can get into the kingdom of God through their good works through their service we don't understand that unless you perfectly obey the law of God which you have not done for five minutes since you were born you are under the curse of God. And here's the reality that we must make clear to our people that they will either bear the curse of God himself. OR they will flee to the one who took it for them. Curse of God. Father turns his back. Thomas Aquinas once was asked Thomas. Do you think the Jesus enjoyed the beatific vision through his whole life Thomas that I don't know but I'm sure that our Lord was able to see things that our sin keeps us from seeing. Remember that the promise of the vision of God in the Beatitudes is a promise made to the pure love. The reason why you can't see God with your eyes is not because you have a problem with your optic nerve. What prevents us from seeing God. It is our our impurity.

But Jesus had no impurity in Thomas that he was pure and so obviously he had some some experience of the beauty of the father to that my sin was placed upon him and the one who was pure was pure no more. And God cursed him.

It was as if there was a cry from heaven.

Excuse my language, but I can be no more accurate than to say it was as if Jesus heard the words God damn you. That's what it meant to be Began to be under the anathema of the father. As I said I don't understand, but I know that it's true that every person in this room and every person outside in this hotel and on the street and across the world was not been covered by the righteousness of Christ right this minute draws every breath under the curse, if you believe that you will stop adding to the gospel and start preaching with clarity and with boldness because dear friends, it is and is not. It is hope enough with clarity and conviction.

As Dr. RC Sproul's sermon clearly any false understanding of the gospel and boiled it down to one incontrovertible truth, we will either bear the curse of God ourselves, or we will flee to the one who took it for us. It shows us how much we had to celebrate this Easter.

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