Sovereign Grace Baptist Church

Free Grace Media

Of Princeton, New Jersey

 

AuthorClay Curtis
TitleWeekly Bulletin 3-12-2011
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Date12-Mar-2011
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March 12, 2011

 

SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH

 

LOCATION

Rocky Hill Firehouse, 2nd Floor

150 Washington Street

Rocky Hill, New Jersey, 08553

Telephone: 615-513-4464

 

Schedule of Services

Sunday 10 AM Bible Class

Sunday 11 AM Morning Service

Thursday 7 PM Midweek Service

 

 

Youth Bible Study, Friday, March 25, 7pm

 

THE SPOTLESS LAMB OF GOD

Christ came into this world to fulfill the law and did so.  He was tried by Satan, by the law, and by men, yet not one sin was committed by this holy, harmless, undefiled perfect servant of the Father as he served (Isaiah 42: 21) Therefore, when the hour was come, Christ Jesus was the only one fit to offer himself without spot to God to undergo the absolute transaction of baring the sins of his people in his own body which only God could bring to pass. 

 

 

THE LORD HATH LAID ON HIM THE INIQUITY

Isaiah 53: 6

 

Why was it a necessity for the LORD to lay on Christ the iniquity of his people before bruising him? All our hope, brethren, is that the judge of all the earth shall do right! (Proverbs 17: 15).  The whole purpose for which the Lord Jesus laid down his life was to declare the righteousness of God. But if iniquity itself had not been laid upon Christ, it had been injustice for the Lord to have bruised him.   The mystery of the cross is not that God punished one who was innocent, though Christ knew no sin of himself.   The mystery of the cross is that the Just One willingly submitted himself to the LORD who took the iniquity off his children and laid it upon Christ making him sin so that God was just to pour out wrath upon Christ (1 Pet 2: 24; Is 53: 6, 11-12; 2 Cor 5: 21.)   Then in perfect harmony with holy justice “he was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities.”  This amazing faithful act of God’s Servant was both the complete active fulfillment of the law and the fulfillment of the penalty of the law for the elect of God.  Those born of the Spirit of Christ are made partakers of the divine nature so that we believe on Christ in whom we have established the law and by the constraint of his love for us by which Christ has made us complete in him we walk with him daily (2 Pet 1: 4; 2 Cor 5: 14-21.)

 

 

THE EXPRESS IMAGE

 

The sacrifice under the old covenant on the Day of Atonement was a type.  A type means it was “as if” the sins of the people were put on the goat.  A shadow means God treated the goat “as if” he were sin. A picture means God regarded the sacrifice “as if” sin had been put away.  But because it all was only “as if”, the entire picture had to be played out again next year because it was impossible for the picture to actually do what it pictured (Hebrews 10: 1-18.)

 

The book of Hebrews is the declaration that Christ is the express image of that typified in the shadow (Heb 1: 3; 10: 1.) Animals were not in man’s nature but Christ was made the express nature of the children of Abraham when he was made of a woman (Heb 2: 16; Gal 4: 4).  Bulls and goats in shadow and type came under the law but Christ was expressly made under the law. (Gal 4: 4).  Bulls and goats had sin laid on them metaphorically, but the LORD himself hath expressly laid on Christ in his own body the iniquity of all his elect people. (Heb 10: 4-10; 1 Pet 1: 24; Is 53: 6, 11-12; 2 Cor 5: 21.) The blood of goats made atonement in a ceremonial way, but Christ blood has expressly made eternal satisfaction (Heb 7: 19; 9: 26; 10: 12-14).  The blood of bulls and goats purified the flesh in a shadowy ceremonial way, but Christ’s blood expressly purges the conscious from dead works to serve the true and living God so that there is expressly no more conscious of sins in the believer (Heb 9: 13-14; 10: 1-4.)  “So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation” (Heb 9:28.)

 

After that we have heard the truth, let us not traduce this amazing “mystery” to be nothing more than the “as if” of the shadow lest we “tread underfoot the Son of God and count the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite the Spirit of grace.” (Hebrews 10: 29.)

 

SERMONS
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Iniquity Laid on Him

Three Questions to Remember

 

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