The third sanctification takes place when a person enters heaven and becomes totally and irrevocably united with God in the beautific vision.
Latin sanctificare, 'to make holy'. For additional references: CCC , , , , , Redemption: "The salvation of humanity by Jesus Christ. Literally, to redeem means to free or buy back. Humanity was held captive in that it was enslaved by sin. Since the devil overcame human beings by inducing them to sin, they were said to be in bondage to the devil.
Moreover, the human race was held captive as to a debt of punishment, to the payment of which it was bound by divine justice. On all these counts, the Passion of Christ was sufficient and superabundant satisfaction for human guilt and the consequent debt of punishment. His Passion was a kind of price or ransom that paid the cost of freeing humanity from both obligations. Christ rendered satisfaction, not by giving money, but by spending what was of the highest value.
He gave himself, and therefore his Passion is called humanity's Redemption. Latin redemption, 'a buying back, ransoming, redemption. Notify me of new posts via email. Oh, that old rugged cross, so despised by the world, Has a wondrous attraction for me; For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above To bear it to dark Calvary.
Soli deo Gloria! Share this: Twitter Facebook. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. We talk about redemption, reconciliation, salvation and justification without distinguishing a difference in meaning. We fail to realize that they all refer to different aspects of the wonderful salvation God has provided for us.
In this study we want to look at the words justification and redemption, and bring greater depth of meaning to our understanding. It is very sad that so many Christians live in agony and in doubt, and wonder whether they are really accepted by God. They do not understand the difference between the natural man and the new creation spiritual man, so they falsely think that God is remodeling the natural Adamic man, and the remodeling is running into problems.
God is not in the business of remodeling us; He is making everything new! A common explanation of justification is often condensed into the one sentence, "Just as if I never sinned. Because of Christ's great salvation, He now overlooks our sin, and pretends it never happened because Christ paid the penalty for our sins. Therefore He can now pronounce us blameless. This thinking produces questions in us. If a robber steals money, and a friend or relative of his repays the debt, does that mean the robber is guiltless?
If someone commits a crime, and an innocent person pays the penalty for him, does that erase the crime? Does that change the criminal? No, it just frees him to commit more crimes. Yet many Christians claim that Christ, in His death on the cross, only paid the penalty for our sins. On the basis of this payment, they say that we are now justified and have a free ticket to heaven. Can you see the absurdity of this thinking?
Knowing that God is truth, and that He always builds on a foundation of truth, we can safely conclude that every statement He makes about us is true. When He says that we are justified by faith, He is building on a solid foundation.
So let's begin our search for the answer to this mystery of justification by faith, and see that it is based on a solid foundation. In our quest we need to come to grips with questions like, "Does God justify sinners? If a judge would declare a murderer innocent and just, we would be angry and indignant, because that would be an unjust verdict. It certainly is not just to declare an innocent person guilty, and the guilty person righteous! Yet many Christians accuse God of doing just that.
They fail to see that God has to remain just in His justification! Guilt is the result of having committed an unlawful act. In judicial court procedure, to be justified carries the meaning that the one who has been accused of a crime has now been proven innocent, and therefore free from any blame or guilt. Under the Law, we are all guilty of sin, and have come short of the glory of God. Zondervan states, "The verdict pronounced on every man by God's universal courtroom is, 'Every mouth may be closed that is, if anyone protests God's decision , and the world may become accountable to God; because by the works of the Law no flesh will be justified in His sight; for through the Law comes the knowledge of sin.
When we are justified it means that we are not guilty of ever having committed any sin! The punishment inflicted on anyone, or the lack of punishment, has nothing to do with making someone guilty or innocent. Forgiveness frees us from the deserved punishment for our sin, but it does not change us; it does not make us righteous. When an innocent man stands before the judge, and the judge determines his innocence and acquits him of having committed a crime, he is justified because he has not sinned.
So how can God declare us just, and still be righteous? Only God could think of a way of doing that! Jesus said, "You must be born again. In Christ there is no unrighteousness. We are baptized into His death TO sin, and are members of His body. This is not our work - it is the work of God in Christ!
The Adam man is the man of sin. He is the one who does the sinning. After we have been placed into Christ, we are no longer in the Adam man! That is how He justifies us! God created nature in such a way that it would show us His divine nature and wisdom, and thus help us to understand spiritual realities. To help us get a better understanding of the new creation that we are in Christ, let's look at a butterfly that has emerged out of its cocoon.
It has left its worm body, and is now a new creature. So the Lord Jesus Christ had to be a sinless man to redeem, and this is why the concept of His being born without sin, being born of the Holy Spirit through Mary; the whole conception is vital because Christ had to be a free man. He had to be separate from sinners. Only someone that was without sin could actually purchase sinful man. That is why it is so important that Christ is the second Adam born into this world but without sin.
He had to be a willing redeemer. He had to be willing and He had to be a kinsman redeemer, he had to be born of flesh and blood. A man like we are but without sin. Hebrews tells us that the High Priest had to be the same in type. So we are all actually under bondage. As we look back at the passage in Romans chapter 3, we read 'that all men are under sin'. The word for 'under sin' means 'a slave to sin'. So each one of us, when we are born are slaves to a sinful nature, but also in a world that is controlled by the evil one, so in a sense we are a slave to his bidding as well.
So the Lord Jesus Christ needed to redeem us from this slavery by buying us back to Himself. Colossians And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, 14 having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us.
And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. What this is saying is that there was a hand writing of requirements that stood opposed to us which is the law and we have broken every single part of it. Christ has actually redeemed us from all of those things that stood against us, that hand writing of requirements; He has taken it away and He has nailed it to the cross. So He has bought us back and redeemed us from all condemnation.
When the Lord Jesus Christ hung upon the cross, He was actually made sin and darkness covered the earth for those few hours and for the first time in all of eternity the Father actually had to separate Himself from the Son. There had never been separation between the Father and the Son up until this point. But at the point where He was made sin and He was paying a sin debt, there was a separation and this is why you hear the words of Christ 'My God, My God why have you forsaken Me'.
But it didn't end there because you get those great words 'it is finished'. Tetelestai means paid in full. It means to complete something, to fulfill something and to actually pay a debt. Christ laid down His life and paid a debt and after that debt had been paid He said 'it is finished' it is complete, paid in full and the resurrection came later.
The debt had to be paid first and resurrection is proof that the Father was satisfied with the fact that the Son had laid down His life to redeem mankind. So when Christ cries out 'it is finished' that is what it means. It means freedom for all who actually come to faith in Him. So, if you were in prison and someone stamped 'freedom' on your cell, would you walk out?
Many don't. Many hear that their sins have been forgiven but they choose to remain in their sin. I actually read a true story of a man in the States who was guilty of murder, put in prison and was going to be executed. He had really wealthy parents and they appealed to the governor and because of their wealth he was granted a pardon.
His parents went back to him and said 'we have guaranteed a pardon for you' and he replied 'well I don't accept it, I am guilty and I want to die'. His parents couldn't accept that, so they went to the highest court in the land to get a pardon for the son who didn't want it and the court wrote back and said 'a pardon is not a pardon unless it is accepted by the one to whom it is given.
A lot of mankind is in that same boat spiritually. It is our job really to show them the debt that has been forgiven them but still many will refuse it just as this man did. He wouldn't accept the pardon. He was free to go but he said 'no'. Romans whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,.
Straight away Paul is saying here that God is putting someone out there for everyone to look at. It means to 'display publicly', 'to put on exhibit', and he is talking about the Lord Jesus Christ. God is displaying Him publicly as a propitiation.
The word 'propitiation' means to appease, to render favorable, to turn away wrath. So here God is saying 'I am putting this Man out in the open so that everyone can see Him' He is the propitiation between Myself and mankind. If you have ever travelled into any of the tribal areas, you will know that they all have a sense of a god or gods being angry.
There is a sense there that god is offended and certain things need to be done to appease that anger. In many tribes it will be that you have to sacrifice things so the gods won't be so angry. You need to pay money and things like that. So this thought of propitiation is widespread in the world. However, biblical propitiation is actually very different because with the animistic Gods you actually never know what you have done wrong in order to appease them.
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