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<div> Christ reigns in righteousness instead of letting death reign 5:17 </div> <div> Christ justifies instead of imposing judgment 5:18-19</div> <bR> <div> When Adam disobeyed, all men were one with him.  When Christ obeyed, men were not one with Him.</div> <div> When Adam disobeyed, all disobeyed with him.  When Christ obeyed, He obeyed alone.</div> <div> Adam's sin was necessarily imputed to all.  When Christ obeyed, imputation of righteousness is optional.</div> <div> Adam's sin was imputed as an act of justice, Christ's righteousness imputed is grace and a blessing.</div> <div> Adam's sin was a merited imputation.  Christ's righteousness imputed was unmerited grace. </div> <bR> <div> <B>God's wants you to live under </B><B><U>grace</U></B><B>, so seize it! 5:20-21</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> @ Recognize your position 1<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >st</FONT> in Adam; then in Christ</div> <div> @ Realize God wants to give you a grace gift.</div> <div> @ God wants you to live under grace.</div> <div> @ Seize that grace!  How?</div> <bR> <div> Confess your sin of independence daily because of God's grace.  </div> <div> 2 Corinthians 7:9-11  What are the seven truths?</div> <div> Ephesians 1:7-8</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I><B>Living under God's lavish grace is true life!</B></I></div> <div> <B>Biblical Teaching on the Substitutionary Death of Jesus Christ</B></div> <bR> <div>      The Substitutionary Death of Jesus Christ refers to the saving work of Jesus Christ on the cross in our place.  When Adam sinned in the Garden of Eden, he became spiritually dead, i.e. spiritually separated from God and that death spread to all men (Rom. 5:12).  Therefore all men are born spiritually dead or separated from God at physical birth.  Jesus Christ went through spiritual death on the cross, whereby He was <U>judicially</U> separated from the Father, because God the Father identified the sins of the world on Jesus Christ and therefore had to be separated from God the Son as He poured out His wrath on Christ to make atonement for sin and to satisfy or propitiate His own righteousness because of sins.</div> <div>      Jesus was separated from the Father during the substitution and judgment.  Jesus cried out, “My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?” (Mark 15:34)  The plural of intensity, “My God, My God,” is an address to the Father, because it was the Father's plan, the Father's judicial process, and the Father's righteousness that had to be satisfied.   God the Holy Spirit continued to sustain Jesus Christ on the cross (Heb. 9:14), otherwise the humanity of Jesus could not have sustained the judgment.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Christ's substitutionary death counteracted Adam's sin Romans 5:18.</B>  Adam's spiritual death was real - He was deservedly separated from God Rom. 5:12-21.  Christ's substitutionary spiritual death was judicial, i.e. it was not deserved, but was nonetheless a separation from God during the judgment Rom. 5:8.  In both cases, however, there was a real separation from the holiness of God the Father<B>. </B></div> <div> <B>Christ's substitionary death is based on the preposition HUPER Romans 5:6-8</B> (Actually two other prepositions are used in Scripture, but huper is the main one.  Huper is limited in the New Testament in this way also, but used extensively in classical Greek).  “Christ died for (huper) us.”  During those three hours of darkness between noon and 3pm, while Jesus hung on the cross, God the Father poured out the punishment for billions and billions of sins on Jesus, instead of on us<B>. </B></div> <div> <B>Christ's purpose was to take away our sins 1 John 3:5; 1 Pet. 2:24.</B></div> <div> <B>All the time while Jesus was judged, He remained righteous 1 Pet. 3:18.</B>  There were two reasons why He remained righteous and impeccable (perfect, without sin) while He was judged on the cross<B>.</B></div> <div> He was sustained by the power of the Holy Spirit Heb. 9:14</div> <div> He kept His focus on the joy of the goal Heb. 12:3.  It was to our advantage that Jesus died for us. </div> <div> <B>Jesus died physically after the spiritual death was completed Romans 1:4; 8:11; 1 Cor. 15:20-22; 1 Pet. 3:18.</B>  Then the Holy Spirit restored the soul of Jesus to the resurrection body.  The power that raised Jesus from the dead, is the same power that sustained Him on the cross, which is the same power that is available to every believer today, who walks by faith and not by sight 2 Cor. 5:7.</div> <div> <B>Jesus' death was portrayed by the sin offering without defect in the Old Testament Lev. 1:3; 4:23</B>.  In the burnt offering there could be no defect Lev. 22:19; Num. 6:14<B>. </B></div> <div> <B>Jesus became cursed as a substitute for us Gal. 3:13.</B>  Jesus was not a curse, but He became a curse for us.</div> <div> <B>Adam was the cause of our spiritual death, Jesus was the solution for spiritual death Romans 5:12-21. </B></div> <div> <B>The substitutionary death of Jesus Christ establishes the a fortiori basis of grace blessing for the believer. Rom. 5:8-9.</B>  A fortiori is a Latin phrase, which means “with stronger reason.”  It compares a first conclusion with a second conclusion, stating that the first conclusion is more difficult and a second conclusion is easier and therefore more certain.  Romans 5:8-9 is saying that it is easier for God to deliver the believer from final judgment, than it was to pour out the sins of man on Jesus Christ on the cross.  If God did the most difficult thing at the cross (5:8), then He can and will do the easier thing, deliver the believer from the last judgment (5:9). </div> <div> <B>The substitutionary death of Jesus Christ is completely God's work 2 Cor. 5:21; Heb. 9:14.</B>  God the Father imputed our sins on Jesus and judged them.  God the Son, Jesus, bore their judgment and became our Savior.  God the Holy Spirit sustained Jesus Christ during that substitutionary death on the cross.<B>     </B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id157.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Romans 6:111"><U><B>Next Page</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B><IMG SRC="0c740400.gif" border=0 width="64" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grace Evangelical Church"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>