EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/16/2024 9:00 PM
My Worship
Time Focus: PT-2 “The Perfect Propitiation”
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: 1
John 2:2
Message
of the verse: “and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins;
and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world.”
I
will continue to talk about the mercy seat as I begin this evenings Spiritual
Diary. Now the mercy seat was actually
the lid or the cover of the ark, which was situated between the divine Shekinah
glory cloud above the ark and law tablets inside the ark. The following is a picture of the Ark of the
Covenant with the Mercy seat on the top of it.
Now because the priests sprinkled the seat with blood
from the sacrifices, it was the place at which atonement for sin occurred. MacArthur adds “The sprinkled blood thus
stood between God (the Shekinah) and His broken law (the tablets). The sacrificial blood of animals never did
placate God (cf. Heb. 7:26-28; 9:6-15; 10:1-18), but it pictured the future
sacrifice of Christ that would fully satisfy the Father (Heb. 9:23-28; cf. Isa.
53:6, 10; Matt. 20:28; Eph. 5:2). If the
Old Testament sacrificial system had appeased God’s wrath once and for all, the
Jews would not have continued endlessly to bring burnt offerings (Lev. 1:3-17;
6:8-13), sin offerings (Lev. 4:1-5:13; 6:24-30), and trespass offerings (Lev.
5:14-6:7; 7:1-10) over the centuries.”
I want to again give a definition of the word
propitiation as this is very important. “Again,
“to propitiate” means “to satisfy the wrath of God against sin,” “to turn away
God’s wrath,” or “to offer a sacrifice that appeases God’s just judgment and
righteous anger against us and our sin.” And note, Jesus is not simply “the propitiator” but the
“propitiation.” He is what satisfies the justice of God.”
Propitiation is
necessary because of sin as the definition makes clear. Sinners continually shatter God’s perfect law
as seen in the following verses; Jer. 17:9; Matt. 15:19-20a; John 8:34; Rom.
3:9-19; 5:12-20; James 1:14-15; 2:10-11) and He, as the righteously offended
Creator, must react justly in holy anger, wrath, and judgment (Gen. 6:6-7;
Deut. 25:16; Job 24:21-22, 25; Ps. 5:4-6; Prov. 6:16-19; Isa. 59:1-2; Jer.
10:10; Nah. 1:2-3; Luke 13:27; 16:15; John 3:36; Rom. 1:18; 2:5, 8; Eph. 5:6;
Heb. 3:17). God’s justice must be
satisfied. Every sin ever committed by
every person who has ever lived will be punished in one of two ways. I think that you probably know the two was
that I am referring too, as either God’s wrath will be s satisfied when all unbelieving
sinners suffer eternally in hell as seen in Matthew 13:42; 25:41, 46; 2 Thess.
1:9; Rev. 20:15. The other and absolutely best solution to having sin taken
care is to become a born-again believer by confessing to the Lord that you are
a sinner and by agreeing with Him that Christ died for your sins, and then by
inviting Jesus Christ into your life to save you from sins penalty. Jesus Christ died on the cross for you,
taking your sin in His body on the cross as He went through this horrible
punishment of all sin on the cross for three hours as He was separated from His
Father and became sin for us. It is a
free gift, salvation is, but we must claim it or else be sent to hell
forever.
Lord willing we will
continue this subject in the next SD, as this section is very long and will
take us a while to get through it.
9/17/2024 9:31 PM
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