Christ - Our Propitiation

Q: What does the Bible say about propitiation?

The Bible describes propitiation as a means of reconciling a sinful humanity with a holy God through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. In Romans 3:25, it's explained that Jesus Christ is set forth by God to be a propitiation through faith in His blood. This concept of propitiation indicates that Jesus serves as the mercy seat, reconciling sinners to God and satisfying divine justice. The Old Testament shows a pattern of this through the mercy seat in the Holy of Holies, where the high priest would sprinkle blood as a means of atonement. Now, Christ fulfills this role perfectly, as He is both the sacrifice and the mercy seat, allowing for reconciliation with God. His blood was shed to cover our sins and meet the requirements of God's holiness, demonstrating His justice and mercy simultaneously.

Q: How do we know the doctrine of justification is true?

The doctrine of justification is grounded in Scripture, affirming that we are justified by God's grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Justification is affirmed in Romans 3:24, which states that we are justified freely by God's grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. This act of justification is not based on our works or merit but is a divine act where God declares sinners righteous through faith. The foundation lies in God's character; He is both just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus (Romans 3:26). Therefore, justification is not merely a theoretical concept but is anchored in the historical reality of Christ's sacrifice and the promises of Scripture asserting that through faith in Him, we are received as righteous before God.

Q: Why is understanding God's holiness important for Christians?

Understanding God's holiness underscores the seriousness of sin and the necessity of Christ's atoning sacrifice. God's holiness is foundational to the Christian faith, as highlighted throughout Scripture. Romans 3:19 states that the law serves to reveal our guilt before a holy God, reminding us that every person is ultimately accountable to Him. Acknowledging God's holiness helps believers comprehend the gravity of sin, which drives the need for redemption through Jesus. It emphasizes that without such understanding, the gospel loses its weight; only by recognizing God's nature can we appreciate the profound mercy offered through Christ's sacrifice. This understanding compels us to live in a way that honors Him, striving for holiness ourselves.

Q: What is the significance of Christ being our Federal Head?

Christ as our Federal Head signifies that He represents humanity in fulfilling God's covenant of salvation. The concept of Christ as our Federal Head reflects His unique role in salvation history, where He stands as the representative of His people. In His perfect obedience to the law (Romans 5:19), He accomplishes what no other could—makes satisfaction for sins. His federal headship contrasts Adam's failure, illustrating how through one man's disobedience all were made sinners, but through one man's obedience, many will be made righteous. This theological construct emphasizes the unity between Christ and believers, ensuring that His righteousness is imputed to them, thereby restoring what was lost in the fall.

Now, if you will please turn
in your Bibles to the book of Romans, the third chapter of Romans. And while you're finding the
text, I'll tell you that tonight I'll
speak, the Lord willing, from Romans 5. If you want to read tonight's
scripture before you come to the service this evening, The
message will be from Romans 5, verses 1 through 11. All right, Romans chapter 3. This
morning I'm going to begin our reading with verse 19, Romans
3, 19. Now remember this while I'm reading
this scripture. There's no clearer or stronger
or plainer declaration of the gospel, the gospel, of God's
grace to sinners than the one found right here in these three
verses I'm going to read. This is as clear as the gospel
of God's grace can be declared. And if you or I would know the
gospel, and there are not a lot of people in this world who really
know the gospel, But if we would know the gospel and how our holy
God saves those whom he's pleased to save, then it's stated right
here in these verses. If we really want to know, here
it is, plain and simple and clear. Romans 3, 19. Now we know that what things
soever the law saith. It saith to them who are under
the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world
may become guilty, guilty before God. And that word guilty is
subject to the judgment of God. Therefore, this being true, then
by the deeds of the law, by the works of the law, by the works
of religion, There shall no flesh, no person, be justified, accepted,
declared righteous in God's sight. For by the law is not the healing
of sin, nor the forgiveness of sin, but just the knowledge of
sin, the revelation. Verse 21, But now, the righteousness
of God, the very holiness of God, without the law, without
our obedience to the law, is manifested, it's revealed. Being witnessed by the law and
the prophets, and being witnessed by the word of God and the prophets
of the Old Testament scripture. It is even, what righteousness
is this? It is even the holiness and righteousness
of God, which is by faith by our faith in and by the faithfulness
of Jesus Christ. For whom is it designed? It's
unto all and upon all that believe. There is no difference. There
is no difference for all that sin and come short of the glory
of God. Some fall and father short. to be short of the glory of God
is short of the glory of God. Being justified freely, without
cause, found in you or me, by his grace, by his graciousness,
through the redemption of Jesus Christ, which is in Jesus Christ. Whom God? This Jesus Christ. God has set forth to be a propitiation,
a mercy seat, a covering, an atonement through faith in his
blood. To declare his righteousness,
God's righteousness and holiness. What do we see in the cross?
We see the love of God. What do we see in the cross?
We see the depravity and sinfulness of man who nailed him there. But what do we see in the cross?
We see the justice and righteousness and holiness of God, who spared
not his own son, though the sins he bore were not his own, but
were imputed to him. And God declares his righteousness
by the remission of sins of the past, even those in the Old Testament
before Christ came. through the forbearance, through
the long-suffering and patience of God, to declare, I say at
this time, his righteousness, his holiness, that he, God, might
be just. He's not going to compromise
his holiness, he's not going to compromise his justice, his
righteousness. If he saves a sinner, it will
be in full accord with his be in full accord with his righteousness,
that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus. Now, the book of Romans, in chapter
1, if you'll back up a little bit, and I've often said if we're
going to find out what something means, we're going to have to
go back and study what's written prior to it. And the book of
Romans, in chapter sets forth clearly the idolatry and paganness
and ignorance of the Gentile nations. Now look at Romans 1
verse 18. Here in the first chapter of
Romans, if you read it, you'll find in these verses the idolatry,
paganism, ignorance, idolatry of the Gentile nations. Verse
18 of Romans 1, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in
unrighteousness. Because that which may be known
of God is manifest to them. That word is to them. God showed
it to them. How? For the invisible things
of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen. The sun,
the moon, the stars, the planets, the heavens, the earth, the things
that grow. All of these things declare the
glory of God, the wisdom of God, the majesty of God, the existence
of God, being understood by the things that are made, even His
eternal power and Godhead. So they're without excuse. And because that when they knew
God, they glorified Him not as God, When they saw the power
and majesty and glory of God in the things that were made,
they didn't glorify him as God, nor seek to know the God that
made all things. They weren't thankful. But they
became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened,
and professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And
they changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image
made like the corruptible man, and to birds. Instead of worshipping
the God who made the bird, they worshipped the bird. And the four-footed beast, instead
of worshipping the God who made the beast, and made the animal, and made
these things, they worshipped the creature. They worshipped
the moon, instead of the God who made it. They worshipped
the sun, instead of the God who made it. they worshiped me instead
of God who made me. And in creeping things, wherefore,
verse 24, God gave them up. Go on that way. That's the paganism
and idolatry of the Gentile nation, who would not walk in the light
which they had. And all you read in the next
few verses the depths to which they have sunk. The depths, the
depths, the depths to which they have sunk. And then chapter 2, I'm not going
to get into that. You read the rest of that chapter.
In chapter 2, the Apostle Paul declares the blindness and hypocrisy
of the religious Jews. Here in chapter 1, he deals with
Gentiles and their idolatry and ignorance of God and their depravity
and pagan practices. But in chapter 2, I'll tell you
what chapter 2 is all about. It shows the blindness and hypocrisy
of the religious Jews who rejected the Messiah, who rejected the
Christ, who rejected the way of life, and they looked for
acceptance with God in their obedience to the law. God gave the law to bring them
to Christ, but they worshiped the law. God gave them the types
and patterns to bring them or show them Christ crucified, and
instead of seeking salvation in Christ, they sought salvation
in the patterns and the ceremonies and the ordinances. They thought
they could find acceptance with God through their relationship
with Abraham, and through the law, and through the ceremonies
and the rituals, which they did not keep. And that's what he
said. Now look at verse 17 of Romans 2. Behold, I have called
you, people of God, and you rest in the law, and you make your
boast of God. You say you know his will, and
you approve the things that are more excellent, being instructed
out of the law? That's what you say? Now get
the picture here. Paul talks about the pagan, ignorant,
idolatrous Gentile. He comes over to a religious
man. And this holds true today. This is the same today as it
was then. You have those who have no thought
of God, And you have those who profess to know God. And he's
talking to those who, he says in verse 19, and you're confident
that you yourself are a guide of the blind. You're a light
to them which are in darkness. You take the religious people
today, they can tell you everything you want to know. They got all
the answers. They're a light for the blind
and they're a guide for those in darkness. Verse 20, you think
you're an instructor of the foolish. your teacher obeys. You get all
the little children around you and you're going to teach them
all. Which has the form of knowledge and truth in the law. Thou therefore
which teacheth another, teachest not thyself? Teachest thou not
thyself? Thou that preachest a man should
not steal, dost thou steal? In other words, you're saying
this law, salvation's in work, salvation's in religion, salvation's
in law, salvation's in deed. Do you keep the law? Perfectly? Are your works perfect before
God? You who seek salvation in what you do, is what you do perfect
in God's eyes? Do you keep the law? Verse 22,
thou that say'st a man should not commit adultery, dost thou
commit adultery? Thou that have hoarest idols,
dost thou commit sacrilege? Do you have an idol? Thou that makest thou boast of
the law and of your morality and your goodness and righteousness
through breaking the law, do you dishonor God? The name of God is blasphemed
among the Gentiles through you, the world laughing at you. You're
claiming what you do not have, you're boasting what you do not
know, you're boasting of a hope which you do not have. And you're
trying to find it, he says, in your law and in your ceremony,
in your rituals, in your games of religion, in your professions
of religion. For circumcision barely profiteth
if they keep the law. But if thou be a breaker of the
law, your circumcision is become uncircumcision. Oh, that's the
condition of the religious Jew. All right, then he comes to chapter
3. And chapter 3 declares there's
no difference. In verse 9, look at verse 9.
So the Jew, verse 1 of chapter 3 said, what advantage does the
Jew have then? What profit is there in the law?
Verse 9, what then? Are we better than they? Is this
religious man any better off than that man who has no religion?
Is this Jew any better off, this Jew who has the law and the ceremonies
and the prophets, is he any better off than the man who has no thought
of God and worships a bird or a beast? The man who tries to
find his salvation in worshiping a day, even if it's the one God
made. Or keeping the law, trying to,
even if it's the law God gave. Is he any better off than a man
who worships a bird? That's what Paul's asking. All
right, let's see what he says. Are we better off? No, in no
way. Not a bit better off. But we
have both proved, we have before proved, both Jews and Gentiles,
they're all under sin. This is the problem, they're
under sin. The whole world. The man who's religious is a
sinner. The man who worships the birds and the beasts, he's
a sinner too. So if this man tries to come to God by worshiping
the birds and the bees and the beast, he'll never make it. And
the man who worships even the things that God Almighty himself
has made, he's not going to make it, because he's a cynic. Verse
10, as it is written, there's none righteous, no, not one.
There's none that understands it. There's none that seeketh
after God. They're all gone out of the way. They're all together.
become unprofitable, there's none that do us good. No, not
one. God can't accept the bird-worshipper
or the Sabbath-worshipper. Neither one. Because they're
all sinners. And here's their condition. Verse
13, their throat is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they've used
deceit, the poison of snakes venomous serpents is under their
lips, their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness, their
feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery in their
way, the way of peace. They have not known, there's
no fear of God before them." And verse 19 says they're guilty. Now, we know that what things
soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law,
the religious and the irreligious. The so-called worshiper and the
idol worshiper, says to all who are under the law, that every
mouth may be stopped. Every mouth stopped. We've got
no plea, we've got no prayer, we've got no merit, we've got
no worth. Just shut your mouth. And all the world become guilty,
guilty before God. Puts us all in the same boat. Every son of Adam in the pulpit,
and these preachers can prance around and wave their arms and
wear their uniforms and make their signs and sprinkle water
in the pulpit, in the pew, and in the world, every son of Adam,
every daughter of Adam, stands on the same plain before a holy
God, guilty. Guilty. Unacceptable. Unholy. Guilty. Is that not what that
says? Is that not? Am I telling the
truth? It's hard But it's fact. It's hard, but it's so. It's
just so. There it is, right there. We
know that what things whoever the law saith, verse 19, saith
to them who are under the law, that ever mouth may be stopped.
That's, let everybody shut up, in the pulpit, in the pew, in
the well. They're guilty, they're without
righteousness, they're guilty. That word guilty is subject to
the judgment of God. Therefore, all that I said, Paul, therefore,
by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh, no flesh, if
it's Abraham's descendants or if it's a descendant of the most
pagan Nimrod, there shall no flesh be justified
in God's sight, no flesh. All right, is that the end? Well,
that's not the end, thank God. We start here. This is where
a person begins if he learned the way of life, if he learned
the gospel. Young people, this is where you start. You've got
to start where you are. They've got a little saying,
where are you coming from? Now, where is he coming from? Well, that's where you've got
to find out where you're coming from. And you can learn three
facts. Number one, God is holy, infinitely,
everlastingly, perfectly, unchangeably holy. Okay? God is holy. He's righteous and he's just.
That's what Scripture says. Secondly, we're unholy. Now, I don't care who you are,
I don't care if your hands span long or you're 80 years old,
you're still unholy. By birth, by nature, by choice
and by practice, you're unholy. Not in my sight, but in God's sight. I'm not saying
you're the worst man who ever lived, but you wouldn't be any
better off if you were, or weren't. Before God becomes short of his
glory, short of his glory. I don't care how far. If a man's
going to jump across a big, a big opening in a cliff, He might
miss it ten feet, he might miss it six inches, but he's down
at the bottom, I don't care how close he comes. Isn't that right? And to come short of God's glory
is to miss it, no matter how short you come. And that goes for this guy and
you too. So we're unholy, we're unrighteous, we're guilty. I
tell you this, even our so-called goodness is unrighteous with
God. Now, we look at one another and
we do some things that are commendable, but for God to accept anything
that a man does, it has to be perfect. That's what Scripture
says. And nothing we do is perfect. And thirdly, remember this. This
is where we're coming from. This is where we've got to start.
God is holy, unchangeably so. Man is sinful, unchangeably so
with man. The disciple said, Lord, who
can be saved? He said, with me, and it's impossible.
But, with God, all things are possible. So, if there is a way,
thirdly, for us to be holy, if there is a way for us to be righteous,
if there is a way for us to be accepted, it's going to have
to come from him. Am I correct in that? It's going
to have to come from God. If we ever get straightened out,
God will have straightness. If we ever have a righteousness,
he'll have to give it. It's got to originate with him.
It's got to come from God. Second, there's got to be a way
that'll let him be God. It's got to be a way that'll
allow God to be holy and just and righteous. Do you understand
what I'm saying? I hear people say, well, you know, I like Jesus. I don't like God. Jesus is sweet
and loving, and God is austere and fearful and awesome and holy. Jesus is God. And God is awesome,
and God is holy, and God is righteous, and God is just, and he will
by no means clear the guilty. And Christ is the one he sent
to do a work that would enable him to still be God, holy, just,
righteous, and awesome, and yet show mercy. Understand what I'm
saying? This way of salvation has got
to come from God, it's got to honor God, it's got to be in
keeping with his character, and thirdly, it's got to require
nothing from me. Isn't that right? It's got to require nothing from
me. It's got to be Verse 21, listen, but now the holiness
of God, the justice, the righteousness of God without the law is manifested. It's got to be a holiness, a
justice, a righteousness, a salvation provided for me without the law,
because I can't keep it. I just go through the law, thou
shalt have no other God before me. Do you? You know, we talk about idols
of gold, we got some idols of clay. And if God, say God took your
son or daughter away from you today, how would you respond?
You'd be kind of upset, wouldn't you? And that's loving that child
more than you love God. I shall not take the name of
the Lord thy God in vain. Do you ever use God's name in
any shape, form, or fashion without giving him the total glory in
an awesome, fearful, majestic, glorifying, worshipful way? Sure
you do. Carelessly say God, you know.
Well, that's sin. That would break the law. It
would break even our righteousnesses. So it's got to require nothing
from me, nothing without the law. So here it is. Verse 21. Now the righteousness
of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets. It's the righteousness of God
which is by the faith of Jesus Christ the Lord. In other words,
in the fullness of time, God sent his Son into the world, made of a woman, made under the
law. to redeem us. Christ Jesus came
down here in human flesh, made of a woman. He was conceived
in the womb of the Holy Spirit and developed and shaped just
like I was in the womb of my mother. After nine months he
was born. The only difference in me and
in him is that I have a human father and he is conceived by
the Heavenly Father, the Holy Ghost. But he was born the same
way. He took my flesh and my bones.
He was tempted in all points as I am. He thirsted. He wearied.
He hungered. He slept. He toiled. He labored. He sweat. He hurt. He knew pain. And the law of
God was on him. He was made of a woman and made
under the law. You see, this says here that
what things the law says, it says to them who are under the
law, that every mouth may be stopped. But Jesus, my substitute,
Jesus Christ, my Savior, Jesus Christ, my Federal Head, Jesus
Christ, my Messiah, was under the law too. But his mouth was
not stopped. He said, I always do those things
that please my Father. He was under the law, and he
obeyed it perfectly. And he did it as a representative.
Someone may say, well, he was just one man. There are many,
many. How could one man do that for so many because of who he
is? He's the God-man. You see, man can suffer, but
he can't satisfy. Jesus Christ being the God-man
can both suffer and satisfy because of who he is, because of who
he is. Be it known unto you men and brethren, for this man is
preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. And you are free from
all things from which the law could not free you. He who knew
no sin was made sin for us that we may be made the righteousness
of God in him. The hymn writer put it this way,
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, whom seraphims obeyed, the bosom
of the Father left and entered human clay. Into our sinful world
he came, the messenger of grace, and on the bloody cross he died.
the Savior in our place. And transgressors of the greatest
sins, in him salvation found. His blood removes the foulest
guilt. His Spirit heals the most troubled
mind. Oh, let our debts be what they
may, however great or small. As soon as we have nothing to
pay, he'll forgive them all. Preacher, are you saying that
a holy, almighty God, a just and righteous God, has folks
like us on his mind? David said he did. He's mindful
of us. Preacher, are you saying that
a holy God will deal with us, not in wrath and in judgment,
but in mercy? The Word says he will. Are you
saying, preacher, that God Almighty in his infinite wisdom has designed
and decreed and purposed a just and holy way by which the chief
of sinners can be made holy, unblameable, acceptable, unreprovable
in his sight? That's what Scripture says. You mean you're saying that a
human being, a weak human being like you and like me, that we
can have a blessed eternal hope of life everlasting before a
holy God in an eternal sinless glory. That's what Scripture
says. And here in verse 25, I'll show
it to you. Verse 25, talking about Christ,
verse 24 says, being freely justified, being justified freely, without
cause, without merit, without earning, by his grace, through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth. Whom God set forth. The way to
God is a person. Salvation of God is a person.
The life of God is a person. It's a whom. It's not a which
God set forth. They say Jesus made a way somehow. No, he didn't. He is the way.
Whom God has set forth. That's an important word. Whom
God set forth. All right, what does it mean
to set forth? Well, it means several things. Let me show it
to you just briefly. First of all, God set him forth
in all eternity. God set him forth. God exhibited,
displayed him before the foundation of the world. He was the Lamb
slain. God, before the foundation of the world, declared who would
save us and how he would save us. Isn't that right? The Lamb
slain for the foundation of the world. Then God set him forth
in the promises. He said the seed of woman. He
said the seed of Abraham. He said the son of David. He
said the priest like Melchizedek. Promises. Then God pictured him
in the types and patterns. He showed us the Passover Lamb.
He showed us the smitten He showed us a brazen serpent lifted up.
And then God set him forth in preparing for him a body. When
that baby was born in Bethlehem, the angel stood out there on
the hillside and said to the shepherds, under you is born
this day in the city of David a Savior, Christ the Lord. God
set him forth, hung a star over that manger. That's most unusual. That star wasn't always there.
The rest of them never left their course. That one did. That's
how grand that birth was. A star left its charted course
and came and hung over a manger. And then God set him forth by
many witnesses when he walked this earth. John the Baptist
said, that's the Lamb of God. The voice from heaven said, that's
my beloved son. The works that he did, gave sight
to the blind, raised the dead, caused the lame to walk. They
bear witness. And then God set him forth in
the scriptures. And then God raised him from the dead. And
then God set him forth in the gospel, which I'm preaching to
you. This gospel is about Jesus Christ. Look back at Romans 1 a minute.
Just a second. Romans 1, beginning with verse
1. It says here in Romans 1.1, Paul,
a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to
the gospel of God, which he promised to for by his prophets and the
holy scriptures concerning his son, Jesus Christ our Lord, who
was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared
to be the Son of God. So God set him forth. And God
set him forth as our intercessor. Set him forth in the gospel.
All right, back to the text, just a moment, I won't keep you
much longer, be patient, just a minute. Verse 25. The person Jesus Christ God had
set forth to be a propitiation. What is the word propitiation?
Well, propitiation, to propitiate is to reconcile. That which was
at enmity is now friendly. That which was cast off is brought
back. That which was lost is found.
It's to atone. That which was sinned, an atonement
has been made. That which was out of favor,
restored to favor, propitiated. And God set him forward to be
a propitiation. A propitiation. The word also
means mercy seat. I want you to turn to Exodus
25. Now, this is the picture. Like I said to you, everything
that's taught in the New Testament is pictured in the Old Testament.
Everything about Christ that is declared in the New Testament
is declared in type and pattern in the Old Testament. That's
right. Everything. You see, in the Old
Testament, in the tabernacle, there was an ark of the covenant.
In the Holy of Holies, there was an ark. About three and a
half feet long and about two feet high and wide. And in that
ark were the Ten Commandments that Moses received from the
Lord, that the Israel broke, and which we've broken, is in
that ark. And over that ark was a gold mercy seat. And once a
year, the high priest would come into the Holy of Holies, into
the presence of God, where that ark was sitting. once a year. No one else was allowed in there
but the high priest once a year and bring blood and dip hyssop
in it and sprinkle it on that mercy seat. It was called propitiation. It was called a mercy seat. It
was called a covering. It was called an atonement. That animal blood didn't put
away their sins. It was a picture of him who would.
It was a type of him who would in the same way Christ came into
the world, gave his blood and sprinkle it not on a mercy seat
in the Holy of Holies, but in heaven itself, for he is the
blood, and he is the mercy seat, and he is the God to whom the
atonement is made. Look at Exodus 25, verse 21. God says to Israel,
Thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the
ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee, the commandments.
And there I'll meet with you." Where? At the mercy seat. And
there I'll commune with you. What's commune mean? Fellowship.
God says, I'll meet you and I'll commune with you above the mercy
seat from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the
covenant of the testimony of all things which I shall give
thee in commandment to the children of Israel. God said to Israel,
that's where I'll meet you. at the mercy seat, where the
blood is sprinkled. That's where I'll fellowship
with you. That's where you'll be reconciled, that's where you'll
be brought into favor, that's where you'll be accepted. And
verse 25 of my text, Romans 3, what does it say? God set him
forth to be a propitiation, a mercy seat. That's where God dwells,
between the cherubim, in Christ. The mercy seat covered the broken
law. The mercy seat is where the glory
of God dwells. The mercy seat is where the atonement
is made. The mercy seat is where we meet
God. Who is our mercy seat? Jesus
Christ. Can it be any plainer? Jesus
Christ. And all of this God did, verse
25, to declare his righteousness, his holiness, By the remission
of sins that have passed through the forbearance of God, to declare,
I say, his righteousness, that God may be just and the justifier
of those who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn to 1 Corinthians
1.30. And I'll close with this verse
of Scripture. And I believe that's as plain as the gospel can be
declared. What we needed, Christ fulfilled. What God required, Christ presented. In 1 Corinthians 1.30, listen.
But of God are you in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto
us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption. And that's all you need. Wisdom
to know God, righteousness to appear before God. sanctification
to walk with God, and redemption to inherit the glory of God,
found in Christ. May God bless this to your hearts.
Let's sing Wonderful Grace of Jesus, number 206.

Christ - Our Propitiation

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What is the significance of Christ being our Federal Head?

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