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“What
is the word propitiation?...”
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Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
The
word “propitiation,” is used some 3 times in our New Testament.
Romans 3:25 KJV
Whom
God hath set forth to be a propitiation* through faith in His
blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that
are past, through the forbearance of God;
*Propitiation-Greek: Hilasterion (Hil-as-tay-ree-on): An
expiatory (place or thing): An atoning victim, or (spec.) the lid of
the Ark (in the temple): mercyseat, propitiation. (Where the blood
of the spotless lamb was applied for the sins of the people. Hebrew
9:5-12)
I John 2:2 KJV
And
He is the propitiation* for our sins: and not for ours only, but also
for the sins of the whole world.
*Propitiation-Greek: Hilasmos (Hil-as-mos): Atonement, i.e. an
expiator.
I John 4:10 KJV
Herein
is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent His
Son to be the propitiation* for our sins.
*Propitiation- same as above.
Terms
Used:
Propitiation:
1. The act of appeasing wrath and conciliating the favor of an
offended person; the act of making propitious.
2. The atonement or atoning sacrifice offered to God to assuage His
wrath and render Him propitious to sinners. Christ is the
propitiation for the sins of men.
(Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
Atonement:
The reconciliation of God and humankind through the sacrificial death
of Jesus Christ
(Merriam-Webster)
Conciliation:
The action of stopping someone from being angry; placation.
The action of mediating between two disputing people or groups.
Expiation
1 The act of making atonement
2 The means by which atonement is made
Propitious:
Giving or indicating a good chance of success; favorable:
Again the three uses of the word “propitiation”, in our New
Testament.
Romans
3:25 NLT
For
God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin (Propitiation).
People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus
sacrificed His Life, shedding His Blood..."
I
John 2:2 NLT
He
Himself (Jesus Christ)
is the sacrifice (Propitiation)
that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all
the world.
I
John 4:10 NLT
This
is real love—not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent
His Son as a sacrifice (Propitiation)
to take away our sins.
Propitiation:
Romans
5:1,10,11 NLT
1
Therefore, since we have been made right in God’s sight by faith,
we have peace with God because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done
for us.
10
For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of His
Son while we were still His enemies, we will certainly be saved
through the Life of His Son.
11
So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God
because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God.
II
Corinthians 5:18,19 NLT
18
And all of this is A Gift from God, who brought us back to Himself
through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people
to Him.
19
For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself, no longer
counting people’s sins against them. And He gave us this wonderful
message of reconciliation.
Colossians
1:19-22
19
For God in all His fullness was pleased to live in Christ,
20
and through Him God reconciled everything to Himself. He made peace
with everything in heaven and on earth by means of Christ’s Blood
On The Cross.
21
This includes you who were once far away from God. You were His
enemies, separated from Him by your evil thoughts and actions.
22
Yet now He has reconciled you to Himself through the death of Christ
in His physical body. As a result, He has brought you into His own
presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before Him
without a single fault.
Debtors'
Prison:
A debtors' prison was a prison for people who are unable to pay their
debt.
Our Lord alluded to such a prison in His parable of (The Unforgiving
Debtor - Matthew 18:21-35)
Matthew
18:34 KJV
And
his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he
should pay all that was due unto him.
Question:
How
could a debtor ever pay off the debt he owed in prison?
Answer:
Never, he was doomed.
Humanity fell under the curse of sin, and judgment.
Isaiah
59:1,2 KJV
1
Behold, The Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save;
neither His ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your
sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear.
Ezekiel
18:4 KJV
"...
the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Romans
3:23 KJV
For
all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans
5:12 KJV
Wherefore,
as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so
death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans
6:23 KJV
For
the wages of sin is death; but The Gift Of God is eternal Life
through Jesus Christ our Lord.
The wages of our sin, the judgment of our sin, is death, spiritual
death and judgment.
All of humanity is in the prison debtors prison house, with only
eternal judgment waiting.
Thank God, that Is not the end of the story!
Romans
3:25 NLT
For
God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin (Propitiation).
People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus
sacrificed His Life, shedding His Blood..."
I
John 2:2 NLT
He
Himself (Jesus Christ)
is the sacrifice (Propitiation)
that atones for our sins—and not only our sins but the sins of all
the world.
I
John 4:10 NLT
This
is real love—not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent
His Son as a sacrifice (Propitiation)
to take away our sins.
Through The Lord Jesus, and His sacrificial death for us, we may be
PARDONED, from our sentence of death and judgment, when we take Him
as our SAVIOR!
II
Corinthians 5:21 NLT
For
God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so
that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Isaiah 44:22,23
KJV
22 I have blotted out, as a thick
cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me;
for I have redeemed thee.
23 Sing, O ye heavens; for The Lord
hath done it..."
Acts 2:21 KJV
21
“And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name
of The Lord shall be saved.”
He
Came a Long, Long Way From Heaven
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Prayer:
Psalm 86:5 KJV
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready
to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
Psalm 130:7 KJV
"...hope in The Lord: for with
The Lord there is mercy, and with Him is plenteous redemption.
II Corinthians
5:21 NLT
For
God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so
that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Isaiah 55:6 KJV
Seek ye The Lord while He may be
found, call ye upon Him while He is near:
9 That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth The Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath
raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto Salvation.
10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto Salvation.
