Sound Doctrine Propitiation and Imputation

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Sound DoctrinePropitiation and Imputation

• Bible Series
• Christ Emmanuel Christian Fellowship

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Propitiation and Imputation

• Dr. Joy Moore
• Wednesday Word and Worship
• CECF
• April 9, 2008

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Propitiation Secular Perspective

• god is hard, stubborn, cold, uncaring, distant,
  disinterested, angry
• god must be appeased, placated to show mercy and
  kindness to man
• Man can offer god something to change gods
  attitude toward man.

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Propitiation Secular Perspective

• 1. The act of placating and overcoming distrust
  and animosity 
• 2. The act of appeasing the wrath and
  conciliating the favor of an offended person
  (especially appeasing a deity) 

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1 Kings 1827-29

• And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked
  them, and said, Cry aloud for he is a god
  either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is
  in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and
  must be awaked. And they cried aloud, and cut
  themselves after their manner with knives and
  lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them. And
  it came to pass, when midday was past, and they
  prophesied until the time of the offering of
  the evening sacrifice, that there was neither
  voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

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Propitiation Biblical Perspective

• God is holy, righteous, pure, and just
• This separates man from God
• God is loving, kind, merciful, and gracious
• God made a way to show His love and mercy while
  maintaining His righteousness and justice
• This reconciles man back to God

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Propitiation Biblical Perspective

• that by which God is rendered propitious, i.e.,
  by which it becomes consistent with his character
  and government to pardon and bless the sinner.
  The propitiation does not procure his love or
  make him loving it only renders it consistent
  for him to exercise his love towards sinners.

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Propitiation Biblical Perspective

• atonement or atoning sacrifice specifically, the
  influence or effects of the death of Christ

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Old TestamentLeviticus 16

• Day of Atonement
• Beyond the veil sin separates us from God
• High priest offering for self he was not worthy
• Sprinkle the blood- means of propitiation
• Seven times on the mercy seat place of
  propitiation
• High priest offering for Israel

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New Testament Hebrews 101-7

• For the law having a shadow of good things to
  come, and not the very image of the things, can
  never with those sacrifices which they offered
  year by year continually make the comers
  thereunto perfect. For then would they not have
  ceased to be offered? because that the
  worshippers once purged should have had no more
  conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices
  there is a remembrance again made of sins
  every year. For it is not possible that the
  blood of bulls and of goats should take away
  sins.

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Hebrews 101-7 (continued)

• Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He
  saith, Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not,
  but a body hast Thou prepared me In burnt
  offerings and sacrifices for sin Thou hast had
  no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the
  volume of the book it is written of me,) to do
  Thy will, O God.

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Romans 323-25

• For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
  of God Being justified freely by His grace
  through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus
  Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
  through faith in His blood, to declare His
  righteousness for the remission of sins that are
  past, through the forbearance of God

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Hebrews 911-14

• But Christ being come an high priest of good
  things to come, by a greater and more perfect
  tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say,
  not of this building Neither by the blood of
  goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered
  in once into the holy place, having obtained
  eternal redemption for us. For if the blood of
  bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer
  sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the
  purifying of the flesh How much more shall the
  blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit
  offered himself without spot to God, purge your
  conscience from dead works to serve the living
  God?

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1 John 21, 2

• My little children, these things write I unto
  you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have
  an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
  righteous And he is the propitiation for our
  sins and not for ours only, but also for the
  sins of the whole world.

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Hebrews 1011-18

• And every priest standeth daily ministering and
  offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which
  can never take away sins But this man, after he
  had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat
  down on the right hand of God From henceforth
  expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
  For by one offering he hath perfected for ever
  them that are sanctified. Whereof the Holy
  Ghost also is a witness to us for after that he
  had said before, This is the covenant that I
  will make with them after those days, saith the
  Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and
  in their minds will I write them And their sins
  and iniquities will I remember no more. Now where
  remission of these is, there is no more
  offering for sin.

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Our Response to Propitiation

• 1 John 410, 11 Herein is love, not that we loved
  God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to
  be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if
  God so loved us, we ought also to love one
  another.

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Our Response to Propitiation

• Hebrews 913, 14 For if the blood of bulls and of
  goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the
  unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the
  flesh How much more shall the blood of Christ,
  who through the eternal Spirit offered himself
  without spot to God, purge your conscience from
  dead works to serve the living God?

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Our Response to Propitiation

• Hebrews 1019-25 Having therefore, brethren,
  boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood
  of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath
  consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to
  say, his flesh And having an high priest over
  the house of God Let us draw near with a true
  heart in full assurance of faith, having our
  hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our
  bodies washed with pure water.

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Hebrews 1019-25 (continued)

• Let us hold fast the profession of our faith
  without wavering (for he is faithful that
  promised) And let us consider one another to
  provoke unto love and to good works Not
  forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
  as the manner of some is but exhorting one
  another and so much the more, as ye see the day
  approaching.

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Imputation
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Imputation Secular Perspective

• To impute - to reckon, account, charge, ascribe
• To attribute or credit to

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3 Biblical Imputations

• Adams Sin to Mankind
• Mankinds Sin to Christ
• Christs Righteousness to Man

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1st ImputationAdams Sin to Mankind

• Romans 512 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered
  into the world, and death by sin and so death
  passed upon all men, for that all have sinned
• Romans 518 Therefore as by the offence of one
  judgment came upon all men to condemnation
• Romans 519 For as by one man's disobedience many
  were made sinners,

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Gods Biblical Bookkeeping

• Lying
• Stealing
• Cheating
• Ungratefulness
• Pride
• Fornicating
• Cursing
• Gluttony
• Anger
• Envy
• Doubt
• Jealousy
• Greed
• Hatred
• .

SIN
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Imputation Biblical Perspective

• To adjudge as one's own (the sin or
  righteousness) of another
• to attribute (righteousness, guilt, etc.) to a
  person or persons vicariously ascribe as derived
  from another

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2nd Imputation Mankinds Sin to Christ

• Leviticus 16 Day of Atonement
• Isaiah 534-6 Surely He hath borne our griefs,
  and carried our sorrows yet we did esteem Him
  stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He
  was wounded for our transgressions, He was
  bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of
  our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we
  are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray
  we have turned every one to his own way and the
  LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

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2nd Imputation

• I Peter 224 Who his own self bare our sins in
  his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to
  sins, should live unto righteousness by whose
  stripes ye were healed.
• II Corinthians 521 For he hath made him to be
  sin for us, who knew no sin that we might be
  made the righteousness of God in him.

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Gods Biblical Bookkeeping

• Lying
• Stealing
• Cheating
• Ungratefulness
• Pride
• Fornicating
• Cursing
• Gluttony
• Anger
• Envy
• Doubt
• Jealousy
• Greed
• Hatred
• .

SIN
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3rd Imputation Christs Righteousness to Mankind

• Romans 321, 22 But now the righteousness of
  God without the law is manifested, being
  witnessed by the law and the prophets Even the
  righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus
  Christ unto all and upon all them that believe
  for there is no difference
• Philippians 39 And be found in him, not having
  mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but
  that which is through the faith of Christ, the
  righteousness which is of God by faith

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3rd Imputation Christs Righteousness to Mankind

• Romans 420-24 He staggered not at the promise
  of God through unbelief but was strong in faith,
  giving glory to God And being fully persuaded
  that, what He had promised, He was able also to
  perform.  And therefore it was imputed to him for
  righteousness. Now it was not written for his
  sake alone, that it was imputed to him But for
  us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we
  believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from
  the dead

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3rd Imputation

• Romans 103 - For they being ignorant of God's
  righteousness, and going about to establish their
  own righteousness, have not submitted themselves
  unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is
  the end of the law for righteousness to every one
  that believeth.
• II Corinthians 521 For he hath made him to be
  sin for us, who knew no sin that we might be
  made the righteousness of God in Him.

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3rd Imputation

• Romans 517-19 For if by one man's offence death
  reigned by one much more they which receive
  abundance of grace and of the gift of
  righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus
  Christ.) Therefore as by the offence of one
  judgment came upon all men to condemnation
  even so by the righteousness of one the free
  gift came upon all men unto justification of
  life. For as by one man's disobedience many were
  made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall
  many be made righteous.

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3rd Imputation

• Hebrews 914 How much more shall the blood of
  Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered
  himself without spot to God, purge your
  conscience from dead works to serve the living
  God?
• Hebrews 1014 For by one offering he hath
  perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

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Gods Biblical Bookkeeping
RIGHTEOUSNESS
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Group Work

• How would you explain the doctrine of imputation
  to someone else?
• Demonstration, examples, parables
• Give scriptural reference for your answer
• How does or how should the doctrine of
  propitiation impact me personally?
• Reflect and share with the group.
• Give scriptural reference for your answer.