Propitiation
What does this big, long $20.00 word mean???
Well, the simplest definition that I could find on the internet for
propitiation is an action meant to regain
someone's favor or make up for something you did wrong.
When I was mulling this word over in my mind, The Lord said, ”REDEEMING
SACRIFICE!”
Christ IS Our Propitiation; HE IS Our Redeeming
Sacrifice!!!
You see, Christ died to pay for our sins!!! His death on the cross was the REDEEMING SACRIFICE that God required to pay for our sins!!!
Romans 3:22-26 (CEV)
22 God treats everyone alike. He accepts people only because they have faith in Jesus Christ.
23 All of us have sinned and fallen short of God’s glory.
24 But God treats us much better than we deserve, and because of Christ Jesus, he freely accepts us and sets us free from our sins.
25-26 God sent Christ to be our sacrifice. Christ offered his life’s blood, so that by faith in him we could come to God. And God did this to show that in the past he was right to be patient and forgive sinners. This also shows that God is right when he accepts people who have faith in Jesus.
I wonder how many of us would agree to die
for a complete stranger?
Would you die for someone that you had never met?
That is what Christ did!!! He died for us before we were even born;
before HE knew us!!! He died to pay for the
sins of the world!!! He died so we wouldn’t
have to die for our sins; so that we wouldn’t have to pay for all the things
that we have done wrong!!
1 John 2:2 (CEV) Christ is the
sacrifice that takes away our sins and the sins of all the world’s people.
In this same verse, The King James Version,
and even in the New King James, use the word, propitiation.
1 John 2:2 (NKJV) And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not
for ours only but also for the whole world.
Do
you know that the ONLY WAY that Jesus
could save us was to come to earth as a man???
Jesus had to become a flesh and
blood man, so that HE could come to earth to live and then die for our sins!!!
Hebrews
2:14-18 (CEV)
14 We are people of flesh and blood. That is why Jesus became one of us. He died to destroy the devil, who had power over death.
15 But he also died to rescue all of us who live each day in fear of dying.
16 Jesus clearly did not come to help angels, but he did come to help Abraham’s descendants.
17 He had to be one of us, so that he could serve God as our merciful and faithful high priest and sacrifice himself for the forgiveness of our sins.
18 And now that Jesus has suffered and was tempted, he can help anyone else who is tempted.
I wonder how many folks really
understand what Jesus did for us?
Can you see Jesus, sitting next to The
Father in Heaven? Can you see HIM
saying, “Father send ME!!! I will
go!!! I will die to pay for their
sins!!!”
John
1:14 (KJV) And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt
among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the
Father,) full of grace and truth.
HE didn’t have to leave HIS THRONE in Heaven!!!
HE didn’t have to leave HIS place with God and give up HIS DIGNITY, but
HE DID!!! That is how much HE LOVES
US!!!
Isaiah
53:3-6 (NLT)
3 He was despised and
rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
4 Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God,
a punishment for his own sins!
5 But he was pierced for our rebellion,
crushed for our sins.
He was beaten so we could be whole.
He was whipped so we could be healed.
6 All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
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