1. The Atonement © John Stevenson, 2012

2. What happened in the Garden?

3. Genesis 3:7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings.

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7. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth (Isaiah 53:7).

8. SacrificialSacrificial...For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed (1 Corinthians 5:7b).

9. SacrificialSacrificial...Christ also loved you, and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma (Ephesians 5:2b).

10. SacrificialSacrificial –A once and for all sacrifice By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all (Hebrews 10:10).

11. SacrificialSacrificial –A once and for all sacrifice And every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God (Hebrews 10:11-12).

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13. SacrificialSacrificial Vicarious (a legal representative)Vicarious (a legal representative)

14. SacrificialSacrificial Vicarious (a legal representative)Vicarious (a legal representative) So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men (Romans 5:18).

15. SacrificialSacrificial Vicarious (a legal representative)Vicarious (a legal representative) For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. (Romans 5:19).

16. SacrificialSacrificial VicariousVicarious SubstitutionarySubstitutionary All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him. (Isaiah 53:6).

17. SacrificialSacrificial VicariousVicarious SubstitutionarySubstitutionary And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions… (Colossians 2:13).

18. SacrificialSacrificial VicariousVicarious SubstitutionarySubstitutionary …having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us and which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross (Colossians 2:14).

19. SacrificialSacrificial VicariousVicarious SubstitutionarySubstitutionary PenalPenal Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us-- for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree” (Galatians 3:13).

20. SacrificialSacrificial VicariousVicarious SubstitutionarySubstitutionary PenalPenal PropitiatoryPropitiatory Therefore, He had to be made like His brethren in all things, that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people (Hebrews 2:17).

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22. SacrificialSacrificial VicariousVicarious SubstitutionarySubstitutionary PenalPenal PropitiatoryPropitiatory –Propitiation presupposes anger

23. SacrificialSacrificial VicariousVicarious SubstitutionarySubstitutionary PenalPenal PropitiatoryPropitiatory –Propitiation presupposes anger –The price of propitiation was death …Christ Jesus; 25 whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith (Romans 3:24-25).

24. SacrificialSacrificial VicariousVicarious SubstitutionarySubstitutionary PenalPenal PropitiatoryPropitiatory –Propitiation presupposes anger –The price of propitiation was death –The initiation of propitiation was love In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins (1 John 4:10).

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26. Propitiation To appease or satisfy wrath Expiation To erase or remove guilt Directed toward the anger of God Directed toward the guilt of man The sacrifice in the temple appeased the just demands of a righteous God… …by covering the guilt of the sins committed

27. SacrificialSacrificial VicariousVicarious SubstitutionarySubstitutionary PenalPenal PropitiatoryPropitiatory ExpiatoryExpiatory As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us (Psalm 103:12).