PRELUDE INTRODUCTION READINGS FROM CHURCH HISTORY. Matt Felton. Reading 1 Letter to Diognetus

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3 PRELUDE INTRODUCTION Matt Felton READINGS FROM CHURCH HISTORY Reading 1 Letter to Diognetus Jerome Loughridge (Anonymous), Letter to Diognetus [2nd Century AD] But when our wickedness had reached its height, and it had been clearly shown that its reward, punishment and death, was impending over us; and when the time had come which God had before appointed for manifesting His own kindness and power, how the one love of God, through exceeding regard for men, did not regard us with hatred, nor thrust us away, nor remember our iniquity against us, but showed great long-suffering, and bore with us, He Himself took on Him the burden of our iniquities, He gave His own Son as a ransom for us, the holy One for transgressors, the blameless One for the wicked, the righteous One for the unrighteous, the incorruptible One for the corruptible, the immortal One for them that are mortal. For what other thing was capable of covering our sins than His righteousness? By what other one was it possible that we, the wicked and ungodly, could be justified, than by the only Son of God? O sweet exchange! O unsearchable operation! O benefits surpassing all expectation! that the wickedness of many should be hid in a single righteous One, and that the righteousness of One should justify many transgressors! Having therefore convinced us in the former time that our nature was unable to attain to life, and having now revealed the Saviour who is able to save even those things which it was [formerly] impossible to save, by both these facts He desired to lead us to trust in His kindness, to esteem Him our Nourisher, Father, Teacher, Counsellor, Healer, our Wisdom, Light, Honour, Glory, Power, and Life. 1

4 Reading 2 Charles Spurgeon Spurgeon, The Blood of Sprinkling [Feb.28,1886] Asher Griffin What a voice there is in the atonement! a voice which pleads for holiness and love, for justice and grace, for truth and mercy. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. Do you not hear it? If you take away the blood of sprinkling from the gospel, you have silenced it. It has no voice if this be gone. Oh, they say, the gospel has lost its power! What wonder when they have made it a dumb gospel! How can it have power when they take away that which is its life and speech? Unless the preacher is evermore preaching this blood, and sprinkling it by the doctrine of faith, his teaching has no voice either to rouse the careless or to cheer the anxious. If ever there should come a wretched day when all our pulpits shall be full of modern thought, and the old doctrine of a substitutionary sacrifice shall be exploded, then will there remain no word of comfort for the guilty or hope for the despairing. Hushed will be for ever those silver notes which now console the living, and cheer the dying; a dumb spirit will possess this sullen world, and no voice of joy will break the blank silence of despair. The gospel speaks through the propitiation for sin, and if that be denied, it speaketh no more. Those who preach not the atonement exhibit a dumb and dummy gospel; a mouth it hath, but speaketh not; they that make it are like unto their idol. SCRIPTURE READINGS Seth Wachtel Psalm 53:1-3 Scripture of Judgment Psalm 49:7-9 Scripture of Dilemma/Waiting Isaiah 53:4-6 - Scripture of Promise 2 Corinthians 5:21 - Scripture of Fulfillment PASTORAL PRAYER Seth Wachtel 2

5 LECTURE: Doctrine of Substitutionary Atonement Dennis Newkirk, Lead Pastor I. Synonyms II. Scriptural Support Genesis 22:13; Isaiah 53:4 5; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 4:25; 1 Peter 2:24;1 John 2:2, 4:10 III. Background Doctrines A. The Nature of God Exodus 15:11, 34:7; Numbers 14:18; Psalm 5:4 6; Isaiah 6:1-5; Nahum 1:2 3; Habakkuk 1:13; Romans 1:18 3

6 B. The Status of the Law C. The Human Condition D. Christ Philippians 3:9, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Romans 5:19 4

7 E. The Old Testament Sacrificial System Genesis 3:21, 4:4, 22:13; Exodus 12, 29:35-37; Leviticus 17:11; Hebrews 9:22, 11:4; Isaiah 53 IV. Atonement Components A. Sacrifice Psalm 103:12; Isaiah 43:25; Jeremiah 33:8, 50:20; Micah 7:18; Matthew 20:28; John 1:29, 11:49-50, 17:19, 18:14; Romans 3:24-26, 11:27; Galatians 3:13; Ephesians 5:1 2; Hebrews 9:28, 10:17 5

8 B. Propitiation Romans 3:25 26; Hebrews 2:17; 1 John 2:2, 4:10 C. Substitution John 15:13; Isaiah 53:4 6; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24; Titus 2:14 6

9 Additional Notes: CONGREGATIONAL SINGING O Sacred Head, Now Wounded There is a Fountain Filled with Blood It is Well ELDER EXHORTATION Tony Capucille HYMN READING Joe Williams, Dominick Wytovich & Brad Sheriff All Ye That Pass By 7

10 CONGREGATIONAL SINGING Jesus, Keep Me Near CONGREGATIONAL CONFESSION & PRAYER Chris Newkirk London Baptist Confession of Faith, 1689 This office and duty of Mediator and Surety the Lord Jesus undertook most willingly. To discharge it, He was made under the law, and perfectly fulfilled it, and He underwent the punishment due to us, which we should have borne and suffered. He was made sin and was made a curse for us; enduring the most grevous sorrows in His Soul with the most painful sufferings in His duty. He was crucified, and died, and remained in the state of the dead, but His body did not undergo any decomposition. On the third day He rose from the dead with the same body in which He had suffered, with which He also ascended into Heaven, and there sits at the right hand of His Father making intercession, and shall return to judge men and angels at the end of the world. Valley of Vision Love Lustres at Calvary DISMISSAL Chris Newkirk 8

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