How Again Received Into Favor?
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 10/2/2016 AM |
Text: | Exodus 22, 23; Lord's Day 5 |
Psalters: | 411, 41, 109, 162 |
- By satisfaction? A must.
- If man is to have God’s favor, it can only be in accordance with God's perfect justice.
- He will “not justify the wicked” (Ex. 23:7); He “will by no means clear the guilty” (Ex. 34:7).
- God’s justice requires full satisfaction.
- We must understand that hell is not satisfaction.
- If man is to have God’s favor, it can only be in accordance with God's perfect justice.
- Can we ourselves make this satisfaction?
- Natural man thinks that he can.
- But Scripture declares that no man is able to deliver himself – utterly hopeless.
- First, to pay off my debt to God I would have to spend an eternity in hell for each sin.
- Second, I only increase our guilt, and do that daily - my debt grows longer every second.
- Third, I cannot earn God’s love and make it right between God and me.
- Nor can satisfaction be made for us by another creature.
- 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.
- God took our transgressions from us 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.