Delivered From Sin How?
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 9/8/2013 AM |
Text: | II Corinthians 5; Lord's Day 5 |
Psalters: | 413, 42, 161, 310 |
- By satisfaction? A must.
- To escape the punishment earned by our sins and to be received again into favor God’s justice must be satisfied.
- God must punish every sin against His most high majesty.
- This He does with everlasting punishment.
- Given the nature of God, the only possibility for reconciliation is via the satisfaction of God’s justice.
- The punishment of sin cannot be avoided because God is just.
- If man is to have God’s favor, it can only be in accordance with God's perfect justice.
- To escape the punishment earned by our sins and to be received again into favor God’s justice must be satisfied.
- Can we ourselves make this satisfaction?
- We would like to think we can, but it is utterly hopeless for all we do is daily increase our debt to God.
- Our Arminian natures always want to earn God’s favor by ourselves.
- All false religions and Roman Catholicism says we can.
- Scripture and the Reformed faith declares that man cannot deliver himself.
- We only increase our guilt, and do that daily - our list of debts grows longer every day.
- The so-called "good works" of sinful man are really not good (perfect love for that moment).
- It is not possible for us ever to make it right between God and us.
- Also we cannot find another to be a proper substitute for us.
- Nor can satisfaction be made for us by another creature.
- We would like to think we can, but it is utterly hopeless for all we do is daily increase our debt to God.
- A proper mediator and deliverer must be a real man who is perfectly righteous and very God.
- The gospel is the good news that there is full remission and perfect righteousness.
- God gave His own Son into our flesh to make the necessary satisfaction.
- He came into our flesh because man must bear the punishment for man’s sins.
- He remains sinless, absolutely perfect, so He would not be punished for His own sins.
- And as the eternal Son of God, Christ could give infinite value to the work He performed.
- God took our transgressions and placed them on His own Son, and laid His own Son on the altar of His wrath.
- Believe God’s Word that reconciliation is through the shedding of Christ’s blood, and trust in nothing else.