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0:00last week in the previous week we were
0:02giving an
0:04exposition of what has always been the
0:07traditional Protestant interpretation of
0:10that Doctrine namely that it is
0:12substitutionary and
0:14penal that our sins were actually
0:17punished in our Lord and in his body and
0:21in him upon the cross and we considered
0:25certain objections and the replies to
0:28those objections to that view of the
0:33atonement and then I suggested that we
0:36were left with the possibility of
0:39considering certain
0:41results of this work of our Lord and it
0:45is at that point that we resume
0:48tonight
0:51now it's rather difficult to know
0:53exactly how to put this matter of the
0:55results and it seems to me after much
0:58consideration that perhaps the best way
1:00of putting it is
1:02this there are certain results of the
1:04work of Our
1:06Lord which perhaps more conveniently
1:09might actually be considered as a part
1:12of his
1:13work in other
1:15words there are those who would say that
1:18as a part of our doctrine of the
1:21atonement we should consider certain
1:23additional
1:25matters uh over and above the ones that
1:28we have already emphasized
1:31ized now let me put it to you like
1:34this the main work of Our Lord in his
1:37death upon the cross was beyond any
1:39question at all in the light of
1:40scriptural
1:41teaching the work that was essential to
1:44propitiate
1:46God the substitutionally penal part of
1:49the work but there are many statements
1:52in scripture which show very clearly
1:55that at the same time as he was doing
1:57that our Lord was also doing certain
1:59other other things and I personally
2:02would not disagree with those who would
2:05argue that these other things are
2:06innocent therefore a part of the
2:10atonement now there is this further
2:13addition then to be made and let me put
2:16it to you in this
2:19form our Lord upon the cross was of
2:22obedience God was putting our sins upon
2:25him and dealt with them we did indicate
2:28that in his life prior to that he had
2:30rendered active obedience which is also
2:33a part of the
2:35atonement but in addition to that he
2:37also did something else there was a
2:39further
2:41activity and what I'm about to say now
2:43therefore
2:45emphasizes in a further sense this
2:48active element in our Lord's work on our
2:53behalf now this is a view that has often
2:56been taught in the church some of the
2:57early church fathers in the first
3:00centuries were very concerned indeed to
3:03emphasize this aspect you remember that
3:06in considering some of the false
3:07theories of the atonement we mentioned
3:10amongst others The View which taught
3:13that our Lord had paid a ransom to the
3:15devil now we rejected that as a view but
3:19there is something in that view which is
3:21perfectly true our Lord in doing this
3:25work did deal with the devil and it's
3:29that kind of aspect of his positive work
3:32that I'm anxious to emphasize
3:35tonight now this view of the atonement
3:37is sometimes being called the classical
3:39view of the atonement and classical
3:41because it was taught in that way in the
3:44early centuries and has been repeated
3:46very often since a man who repeated it
3:49in a very striking and in his usual
3:51forceful manner was of course Martin
3:55Luther Luther generally put it in this
3:58way he said that men in this life and
4:02born in sin has got five main
4:06enemies and the five main enemies are
4:10these
4:12Satan
4:14sin
4:16death the law and the wrath of
4:20God and according to Luther before men
4:24can be saved those five enemies have to
4:27be dealt with well now without
4:30committing ourselves to this entirely
4:32let me put it in this way that there is
4:35no question at all as I'm going to show
4:36you that the scriptures do teach very
4:39definitely and very clearly that our
4:42Lord in his work did deal with these
4:45five
4:46factors we've already in a sense dealt
4:49with the law in expounding the
4:51substitutionary interpretation of the
4:53atonement and in the same way of course
4:56we have dealt with the doctrine of the
4:57wrath of God but it remains for us to
5:01deal with the other three Satan sin and
5:05death now I'm calling your attention to
5:08this not only because it's thought in
5:10the
5:11scripture but because this aspect of the
5:16atonement is tending to receive a great
5:18deal of attention at the present
5:21time there has been a modern Revival of
5:25this view as I say which was taught by
5:27some of the fathers and taught in a very
5:29explicit manner by Martin
5:32Luther it's being taught in a striking
5:35Way by certain Lutheran teachers in
5:37Sweden at the present hour and they in
5:40turn are influencing thought in this
5:43country for the sake of those who are
5:46interested I would remind you that a
5:47book was published in
5:491931 called Christus
5:53Victor it's published I think by the
5:56spck by a
5:58Swedish writer called Gustav Alin a u l
6:03en now those who are interested in this
6:05would greatly enjoy reading that book
6:07it's a small one Christus
6:10Victor by Gustav
6:13alen now here has made this view very
6:16popular and it's influencing a number of
6:19writers in this country at the present
6:21time let me make this quite
6:23clear I do not say that I agree with the
6:26views put forward by Alin ultimately but
6:29I do think that his
6:31description of this view is well worth
6:35reading unfortunately like many in this
6:37country he tends to use this view to
6:41depreciate the substitutionary and the
6:44penal view I could mention certain names
6:47of those in this country who are
6:48obviously being influenced by this
6:51teaching at the present time but if you
6:53do read that book keep your eye on that
6:55you will notice that he tends to
6:58minimize the importance of the
6:59substitutionary view and emphasizes this
7:02other active view my position personally
7:06would be
7:07this that first and foremost our Lord
7:10came into this world in order to Bear
7:13the punishment of our sins in his own
7:15body on the
7:16tree he came primarily and most
7:19essentially to do what we considered
7:21last Friday to be a substitute for us
7:25and to Bear our punishment that's the
7:28first thing so well as we go on now to
7:31these other things we are going on to
7:33them not to subtract from what we've
7:34said but to add to it and to me one of
7:37the great pities about this present
7:40tendency is that they're putting forward
7:42this active element to detract from the
7:45other view instead of adding to it very
7:48well having issued that warning let me
7:50put it like
7:51this there is no doubt at all but that
7:54our Lord in doing his work was waging a
7:57battle take the him we've just been
8:00singing that expresses it look at your
8:02himm books and you will find that many
8:04of them refer to him as the mighty
8:06Victor he's been engaged in a great
8:08battle not only has he come to Bear the
8:11punishment of our sins at the behest of
8:13his father Not only was something
8:15happening between the father and the son
8:17upon the cross on calvary's hill at the
8:19same time the son was waging a mighty
8:23battle so that as you look at the
8:25resurrection you're looking at a Victor
8:28the mighty Victor has arisen and that is
8:31why we should always be filled with a
8:33sense of Triumph as we think of his
8:36resurrection and one of the enemies that
8:39he has thus dealt with is of course
8:41Satan himself Satan and all his forces
8:45now let me give you the scriptures
8:47first in the first Epistle of John 3rd
8:50Chapter 8th verse 1 John 38 you read
8:54this for this purpose the son of men was
8:57manifested
8:59that he might destroy the works of the
9:02devil now there it is as a general
9:06statement of one of the purposes and the
9:08objects of his coming into this world
9:10that he might destroy the works of the
9:12devil then take John 12 31 and
9:1732 our Lord says now is the Judgment of
9:21this world now shall the prince of this
9:25world be cast out there he says it
9:28himself
9:30then listen to the Apostle Paul in
9:32Colossians
9:342:15 Colossians
9:362:15 and having spoiled principalities
9:39and Powers he made a show of them openly
9:43triumphing over them in it it's a
9:47reference to the cross a most important
9:49statement having spoiled principalities
9:51and Powers he made a show of them openly
9:54triumphing over them in it in his death
9:59and and then the other important one is
10:01Hebrews
10:042:14 where we are told that he took on
10:06him flesh and blood for this reason that
10:09through death he might destroy him that
10:13have the power of death that is the
10:16devil and so set at Liberty them who
10:20through fear of death are all their
10:21lifetime subject to
10:24bondage now there are certain scriptures
10:27which obviously we''ve got to reckon
10:29with at
10:30once and you see why it is therefore
10:33that there are those very rightly who
10:35say when you're considering our Lord's
10:37work and what our Lord has done to
10:40reconcile us to God and put us right
10:41with the father you must in addition to
10:44talking about his substitutionary work
10:47mention this active work which he did
10:49against the devil who was there set over
10:52and against us now the question is how
10:54do we interpret these verses that I've
10:56just read to you
11:00our Lord we are told has come to destroy
11:02the works of the devil to cast out the
11:05devil and that he has put him and his
11:08forces to an open show especially by
11:11dying upon the cross he was doing that
11:14as he was dying upon the cross well now
11:16how do we interpret this well surely in
11:19this
11:20way by his life of perfect obedience he
11:23was doing it
11:24partly by his perfect uh obedience to
11:28the law of God and by his honoring God
11:30in everything that he did he is
11:32incidentally attacking and ultimately
11:35destroying the
11:36devil very specifically in conquering
11:39Temptation he does so the devil tempted
11:42him he tried to kill him through Herod
11:44and others at the very beginning and as
11:46the records show us he attacked him and
11:48tempted him in the wilderness and when
11:50our Lord defeated him there we are told
11:52he only left him for a season he came
11:54back undoubtedly attacked him in the
11:56Garden of Gethsemane attacked him upon
11:58the cross he was attacking him
12:01everywhere but our Lord defeated him and
12:05thereby destroyed him and his
12:07works now this is particularly true of
12:10course upon about what happened upon the
12:13cross our Authority for saying this is
12:16the Apostle Paul again in that statement
12:18in
12:19Colossians how is it exactly our Lord
12:22puts to an open shame the devil and his
12:24powers upon the cross well it's clear
12:26that it's something like this
12:30the devil undoubtedly thought that our
12:31Lord would shrink from Death because of
12:35the physical suffering
12:38involved his Hope was that when it came
12:40to that that our Lord would suddenly
12:42fail on physical
12:45grounds in addition to that he probably
12:48thought also that our Lord's obedience
12:50would
12:51fail his argument was that it was all
12:53right for our Lord to obey his father
12:56while it was a question of living and
12:57not committing sin and honoring the law
13:00but now when it becomes a matter of
13:02death that his obedience might
13:06fail and he probably thought also that
13:08our Lord's Faith might fail now there
13:11were some grounds for this it was a
13:14tremendous thing as we saw last week and
13:16our Lord himself you remember in the
13:18high Priestly prayer prays to his father
13:20saying glorify thy son that thy son Also
13:23may glorify thee in which undoubtedly he
13:27is appealing to God to strengthen him
13:29that he may fully glorify his name the
13:32author of this epistle to the Hebrews
13:34tells us that he was heard when he
13:36offered up those strong crys and prayers
13:39because of his piety because of his
13:41Godly
13:42fear the test was very severe and the
13:45devil thought that our Lord's faith in
13:47his father might fail at that
13:50point and especially of course did he
13:53assume that this would happen when it
13:56came to that ultimate point when are
13:59sins being laid upon him that separation
14:03took place between him and the father so
14:06there is very little doubt but that the
14:09devil and his forces thought that upon
14:12the cross their Supreme moment of
14:14victory was going to arrive that our
14:16Lord would fail for one of these reasons
14:18or perhaps all of them together but what
14:21actually happened you remember was that
14:23our Lord
14:25triumphed he triumphed in this way that
14:27he proved that he is inde indeed the Son
14:29of God he did that in the whole of his
14:31life he did it especially upon the cross
14:34his words to the thief who said to him
14:37remember me when thou comest into thy
14:39kingdom his reply is today Thou shalt be
14:41with me in Paradise his very statement
14:44it is finished proves that he's finished
14:47the work which the father has given him
14:49to do he'd already prayed about that
14:51again in John 17 but there upon the
14:54cross he says it is finished in other
14:56words I have finished it I've gone right
14:58through
14:59right through to the end and then having
15:02done so he commits his Spirit to the
15:05father and of course finally this was
15:07all proved by the fact of the
15:10Resurrection declared to be the Son of
15:12God with power according to the spirit
15:14of Holiness by the
15:16resurrection from the
15:19dead not only that you see by his
15:23implicit obedience and by his faith and
15:25by going right through with it
15:29our Lord has finally demolished the
15:31whole case of the enemy the LIE of the
15:34enemy the devil we are told is a liar
15:36from the beginning and his Supreme lies
15:38about God he's misrepresented God to Men
15:42He Did It In the Garden of Eden hath God
15:44said by which he means is it fair for
15:47God to say God is against you he said to
15:50Adam and Eve he has been a liar from the
15:52beginning and his Supreme lie is against
15:55God and against the love of God in
15:57particular
15:59but as we saw together last
16:01week more clearly than anywhere else the
16:04love of God is displayed upon the
16:08cross there we know that the love of God
16:10is as great as this that he did not
16:13spare his only son but delivered him up
16:17for us all he gives his only son even un
16:21the cruel death of the Cross he makes
16:23him to be sin for us who knew no sin and
16:26he does it all for Rebels for sinners
16:29for those who deserve nothing but hell
16:31it's the Supreme
16:33manifestation of the love of God
16:36therefore it is the point above all
16:38others where the LIE of the enemy is
16:41destroyed where the works of the devil
16:44are put to nothing and where he is
16:46finally put to an open shame and utterly
16:50and completely routed and
16:53defeated very well then so that we must
16:55emphasize all that our Lord quite
16:57clearly upon the cross
16:59was doing all
17:01that but still you notice that I haven't
17:04mentioned what we are told in Hebrews
17:072:14 and I haven't mentioned it under
17:10that heading because I choose to take it
17:12under my next heading which is this that
17:15our Lord has not only vanquished the
17:18devil but has also vanquished
17:21death now death is one of the enemies
17:23that sinful men always has to meet that
17:26is the statement of course which is made
17:28in this SE chapter of Hebrews in verses
17:3014 and 15 for as much then as the
17:33children are partakers of Flesh and
17:36Blood he also himself likewise took part
17:39of the
17:40sin that through death he might destroy
17:43him that had the power of death that is
17:45the devil and deliver them who through
17:48fear of death were all their lifetime
17:51subject to
17:53bondage now obviously this is a very
17:55important
17:56statement and it is a statement that
17:58that do often cause people a good deal
18:00of
18:01perplexity they ask what does it mean by
18:04saying that the devil has the power of
18:07death they say we thought the devil was
18:09a usurper and that he has no power at
18:12all and what right of you to say that he
18:14he is the one who controls the power of
18:17death incidentally you see where the
18:20idea gained currency that it was to the
18:23devil that the ransom was paid it was
18:26because they faced this verse in Hebrews
18:282 14 that some of the fathers said that
18:31our Lord had paid the ransom price to
18:33the devil in order to liberate us from
18:35the power of death they based it on that
18:37on that verse but clearly it was a false
18:41interpretation what does it mean well
18:43surely it must mean
18:45this the devil as we see clearly not
18:48only in the Book of Job but everywhere
18:51else in
18:53scripture only has power as God allows
18:57him to have power
18:59he has no absolute
19:01power he has no power or authority in
19:05and of
19:07himself but God permits him and allows
19:10him to exercise certain powers and
19:13undoubtedly one of them is this this
19:17power over the realm of
19:19death that is why in other places the
19:22devil is described as the God of this
19:25world the prince of the power of the air
19:27the spirit that now ruleth in the
19:29children of
19:30Disobedience you can look at it if you
19:32like like
19:34this that man when he sinned when he
19:37listened to the suggestion of the
19:40devil he fell from God and he fell from
19:43his true relationship to God and from
19:45that life which he had with
19:48God and he fell into the
19:52Dominion or the realm of the devil the
19:55realm in which the devil already lived
19:59the Devil Himself by
20:01Falling had fallen into a state of
20:06death you remember there is a reference
20:08in The Second Epistle of Peter in the
20:10second chapter to the Fallen spirits
20:12that are held captive in Chains that's
20:15the same
20:16suggestion the Devil by Falling became
20:19the head of all that realm which is
20:22outside the life of God and therefore
20:24you can describe it as the realm of
20:27death and therefore it follows that when
20:29Adam fell he went into the realm of
20:31death he entered into the Dominion under
20:34the Dominion of Satan which is the
20:37Dominion of death Satan is the one who
20:40rules and who
20:41Reigns in everything that is covered by
20:45this final death and that I suggest is
20:48what is meant here by saying that the
20:50devil has the power of
20:54death now let me put it still more
20:56explicitly by putting it like this
20:59Christ delivers us from that power of
21:02death in this
21:03way Paul puts it in 1 Corinthians 15 56
21:07and 57 in these words he says the sting
21:10of death is sin and the strength of sin
21:15is the law but thanks be unto God which
21:19giveth us the victory through our Lord
21:22Jesus Christ now that means this doesn't
21:26it the sting of
21:30death is
21:32sin in other words the thing that rarely
21:35makes death a terrible thing is sin it
21:39isn't the thing itself but that it's the
21:41consequence of sin and that it leads to
21:43the consequences of sin The Sting
21:47is sin The Sting of death is sin and
21:50what is it that makes that sting
21:52powerful well he says the strength of
21:55sin is the law now in other words it
21:59works in this
22:00way you and I are guilty under the
22:04law and it is that fact that makes death
22:08terrible because death just means this
22:10to the unregenerate that they go on to
22:13that endless condition of spiritual
22:16death of being outside the life of
22:19God and that is why mankind apart from
22:23Christ is all its lifetime subject to
22:25bondage through this fear of death you
22:28see men who don't believe in God and who
22:30don't believe in sin or in the devil
22:32they hate the thought of death why well
22:35in spite of their minds they've got it
22:37in them it's come down through the whole
22:39human race from the beginning that death
22:41is an enemy that death is something
22:44horrible that it's a realm which holds
22:46Us in chained in misery and in
22:48wretchedness and it's
22:52right and you see it is the devil who
22:55asserts that
22:57right because we are born in sin and
23:00because of our own sins we are under his
23:03authority and under his power and what
23:05our Lord does is this he satisfies the
23:08law and the law no longer condemns us so
23:12we are no longer condemned to death and
23:14therefore we come out of the territory
23:15of death and to come out of the
23:16territory of Satan and of
23:20sin and so we are liberated from this
23:23other enemy which is called
23:26death and the author of the epistle to
23:29the Hebrews there teaches it quite
23:31clearly that by dying upon the cross our
23:35Lord incidentally was doing that also he
23:38was not only conquering Satan he really
23:41was conquering death thanks be unto God
23:44he says we've got the victory in Christ
23:47death has lost its Terror oh death where
23:49is thy sting oh grave where is thy
23:52Victory that's the Christian's view of
23:54death he can face it and speak like that
23:56because of what Christ has done
23:59death should have lost its Terror for us
24:02the devil can no longer terrorize us
24:04with it we don't belong to his
24:06realm and because we're out of the realm
24:09of death we're out of the realm of Satan
24:11also so there you see the second enemy
24:16which is death in addition to the devil
24:18is likewise conquered and the third
24:21enemy sin is conquered in exactly the
24:23same
24:24way Paul puts it in the sixth chapter of
24:27Romans in the second verse in these
24:29words how shall we he says that are dead
24:32to sin live any longer therein now
24:36that's a very strong statement we who
24:39are Christians he says are dead into sin
24:42in the 11th verse he puts it in this
24:44form likewise he says reckon yourselves
24:47to be dead also unto sin but alive unto
24:50God through Jesus Christ Our Lord in the
24:5312th verse he says let not sin therefore
24:55reign in your mortal body that he should
24:57obey it in the lust thereof for sin in
25:00verse 14 shall not have dominion under
25:02you for ye are not under the law but
25:05under
25:08grace so that again we can put it in
25:11this
25:12form men as the result of his fall his
25:16Disobedience of
25:18God not only fell under the Dominion of
25:21the devil he also fell as we saw when we
25:24were dealing with the doctrine of the
25:26Fall he fell under the Dominion of sin
25:29and we all know that by
25:31experience sin Reigns in the natural men
25:35in lust in desire in the bias towards
25:39evil in addition to what the devil does
25:41to him from the outside as it were there
25:44is sin reigning within men himself he's
25:47under the Dominion of
25:49sin that says the Apostle Paul there in
25:53those words in the sixth chapter of
25:55Romans by the death of Our Lord upon the
25:59cross we are delivered from the Dominion
26:02of sin we have died to Sin Sin no longer
26:06shall have dominion over us says Paul
26:09we've been taken out of its territory we
26:12still sin we are still foolish enough to
26:14listen to the devil there are still
26:16remnants of sin in Us in the old men and
26:18in the old nature
26:20but as Christian people we are no longer
26:24under the Dominion of sin
26:28if you like the words of the Apostle
26:29John better you can put it in this way
26:32he says in the third chapter of his
26:33first epistle you remember that he that
26:35is born of God sinth not by which he
26:38means doesn't abide in sin doesn't
26:41continue in a state of sin in other
26:43words he's out of the Dominion he may
26:45fall but he doesn't belong to that
26:47territory he's foolish enough to listen
26:49to the enemy but that doesn't mean that
26:50he belongs to the Dominion of the
26:53enemy so you see that our Lord by his
26:56work and especially his work upon on the
27:00cross in addition to bearing the penalty
27:03and the punishment of our sins as our
27:06substitute was also destroying the works
27:10of the
27:11devil and delivering us from the bondage
27:14in the Dominion of the
27:16devil and likewise also was was
27:20delivering us from the Dominion and the
27:22territory of death we are alive unto God
27:26we are no longer dead we are no longer
27:28dead in trespasses and sins we don't
27:31belong to the realm of death we are
27:33alive unto
27:35God and likewise I say he has delivered
27:38us also from this tyranny and throm and
27:42dominion and power of sin very well now
27:47then having put it like that I can go on
27:49to what I would call the results
27:52proper you see we might have regarded
27:55all those things as results but I think
27:57it's better to put them a part of the
27:58work and now we can come to what I would
28:00call results
28:03proper now here again the classification
28:07is important but a little bit difficult
28:09but I suggest to you that this is the
28:11best kind of
28:13classification the first result of our
28:15Lord's work that we must of necessity
28:17consider is the result of our Lord's
28:20work as regards God
28:24himself and here I simply need to make a
28:26few statements it is clear that as the
28:29as the result of our Lord's work God is
28:32propitiated he is
28:35satisfied he is just and the justifier
28:39of him that believeth in
28:41Jesus as the result of our Lord's work
28:44it is God himself that justifieth do you
28:47remember Paul's famous question in the
28:498th chapter of Romans who is he that
28:51condemneth the US who can bring any
28:53charge against God's elect and the
28:56answer is it is God himself that justifi
29:00and he does so because of the work of
29:02Christ what a tremendous
29:04statement may I again just warn you in
29:07passing that we must be careful how we
29:09say all
29:10this lest somebody might think that we
29:12are teaching that there is some
29:13essential change in the inner being of
29:15God as the result of our Lord's work
29:18that is quite wrong the only change that
29:22is affected by our Lord's work is
29:25this it affects God's relationship to
29:29us it doesn't change God's character it
29:33doesn't affect his love because we saw
29:35that it was his love who sent Christ
29:37there is no change in the inner being of
29:39God but there is a very definite change
29:41and thank God for it in God's
29:43relationship to us because now he looks
29:47upon us as children formerly we were
29:49under the wrath of God the change
29:52therefore is in God's relationship to us
29:54not in God's Own inner essential nature
29:57and
29:59being now the second result I come to is
30:03this
30:04one and it's a very extraordinary
30:08statement I wonder whether you'd ever
30:10realize that the is that the Lord our
30:12Lord by doing his work upon the
30:14cross has even affected a change in
30:20heaven now then let me give you my
30:22authority did you notice that verse as
30:24we read at the beginning out of the
30:25ninth chapter of the epistle to the
30:27Hebrews let me read it again verse
30:3123 it was necessary
30:34therefore that the patterns of things in
30:37the heavens should be purified with
30:41these but the Heavenly things
30:45themselves with better sacrifices than
30:49these now let me remind you what that
30:53means you remember that God Called Moses
30:58up to the
31:00Mount and there he gave him
31:03instructions about the building of the
31:05Tabernacle about the measurements and
31:07how he was to furnish it and exactly
31:09what he was to
31:11do and as this very men reminds us in
31:14this epistle to the
31:16Hebrews when God had shown Moses
31:19everything he gave him these words of
31:22instruction he said to him see that thou
31:25make all things according in to the
31:28pattern showed unto thee in the mount
31:32and Moses went down and carried out the
31:36instructions and as this man has been
31:38reminding us everything that Moses made
31:41had to be purified and it was purified
31:44You Remember by taking the blood of
31:46calves and of goats and water and
31:49Scarlet wool and hisop and sprinkling
31:52the book of the law and the people and
31:55these
31:56various vessels of the ministry and
31:59everything in connection with the temple
32:01now this is his argument it was
32:03therefore necessary he says that the
32:06patterns in other words these Earthly
32:08things the patterns of things in the
32:10heavens the Tabernacle in the wilderness
32:13was not the things in the heavens it was
32:15only something made on the pattern of
32:17the things in the heavens it was
32:19necessary therefore that the patterns of
32:21things in the heavens should be purified
32:23with these blood of bulls and of goats
32:26water and so on and so forth
32:28but the Heavenly things
32:32themselves must be purified with better
32:35sacrifices than these and then he goes
32:38on for Christ is not entered into the
32:41holy places made with
32:42h which are the figures of the TRU but
32:46into heaven itself now to appear in the
32:50presence of God for
32:52us so his argument can be put in this
32:56form the patterns of the things in the
32:58heavens were purified by Bloods of blood
33:00of bulls and of goats and so on but that
33:02isn't good enough to purify the thing
33:05itself the Heavenly Tabernacle this must
33:07be purified by something
33:09better and it has been purified by
33:12something
33:13better it has been purified by the blood
33:16of the Son of God himself he offered his
33:21own blood now I do beg of you to read
33:24again when you go home this ninth
33:25chapter of the epistle to the Hebrews
33:28indeed read chapter 8 as well go further
33:31and read the entire epistle in order
33:33that you may grasp this argument it's a
33:35most glorious statement and one of the
33:36most mysterious statements in the whole
33:39of the
33:40Bible he teaches here quite clearly that
33:42it was
33:44necessary that the Heavenly Place itself
33:47should be purified and that it has been
33:49purified by the blood of Jesus Christ
33:52himself now the question is what does
33:55this mean
33:58let me be quite Frank and
34:00answer that there is a sense in which no
34:03one can be too dogmatic about the answer
34:06to that
34:07question but at any rate it seems to me
34:09we must say
34:11this that in some mysterious way there
34:14is a Tabernacle in the Heavenly
34:16places there are these constant
34:19statements about our Lord entering into
34:21that Heavenly Tabernacle that holiest of
34:24all I don't pretend to understand it but
34:27the statements are made and therefore we
34:29must believe that there is some
34:32representation of this because what was
34:34made on Earth was made on the pattern of
34:36that which is in the heavens and in any
34:39case here is this specific statement in
34:41this 23rd
34:43verse and further I think we can say
34:47this Satan after
34:50all fell from
34:53heaven do you remember in Luke 10 where
34:56is it somewhere about verse 16 or 17 our
34:59Lord says I beheld Satan fall as
35:03lightning from
35:05Heaven Satan as we saw when we were
35:08considering the Biblical teaching
35:10concerning him was undoubtedly the
35:13brightest of the
35:15angels in the presence of God and when
35:19he fell when he rose up with pride and
35:21rebelled against God he did so in the
35:24heaven itself
35:28and thus it seems to me that we arrive
35:30at a kind of understanding of what is
35:31meant here by the necessity to purify
35:34even the Heavenly Tabernacle itself in a
35:37way that we can't understand and that
35:39seems to be
35:40inscrutable
35:42evil has affected Heaven
35:46itself this vile this foul thing that
35:49first caused the fall of Satan and then
35:51caused the fall of
35:53men as if one may use such language
35:56introduce the kind of of impurity even
35:59into heaven into the Heavenly Tabernacle
36:02inate and according to this teaching as
36:05I understand
36:06it it was necessary for our Lord to
36:10purify and to purge the Heavenly
36:12Tabernacle of that
36:14Tain and the statement here is to the
36:17effect that he has done
36:19so so that I think it helps us to
36:22understand various other
36:23statements which we find in scripture
36:25about our Lord reconciling not only
36:27things that are upon Earth but also
36:29things that are in heaven yeah all
36:32things in him that God is going to
36:34reconcile all things unto himself by him
36:37in heaven as well as on Earth it's
36:39partly that I'm not suggesting that it's
36:42only that but I am suggesting that that
36:45is a part of that
36:48explanation and so we are confronted by
36:51this truly amazing and remarkable
36:55statement that our Lord as it were has
36:58to take his own
37:00blood even into the heaven
37:03itself to get rid of this taint
37:07this fou smear as it were that was left
37:11by the fall of Satan and so ultimately
37:16heaven to use his own language is
37:19purified entirely and all evil and all
37:23its effects everywhere in heaven as well
37:26as upon Earth
37:28has been
37:29removed and has been taken away well now
37:34I see that my time is gone so I'd better
37:36stop at this point perhaps you'd be
37:37interested in having just the list of
37:40the further results to which we shall
37:42have to go on to consider in detail next
37:45week here they are the first result is
37:47as regards God himself the second is
37:51this mysterious work that has been done
37:53even in
37:54heaven the next thing is that the new
37:57COV has been
38:00ratified then the next heading would
38:03be certain results as regards the Lord
38:06Jesus Christ
38:08himself most important Doctrine the next
38:11would be the results as regards
38:15Sinners the next is certain results that
38:18have occurred to all men even those who
38:22remain Sinners even they derive certain
38:25benefits from the cross what is some s
38:27called common Grace and
38:31lastly the effects of the work of
38:34Christ upon the
38:37Angels the Angels a further reference to
38:41God reconciling unto himself not only
38:43things on Earth but also things in
38:46Heaven by Christ and finally of course
38:50the whole
38:52universe is
38:54affected and certain permanent glorious
38:57result results take
38:59place following this perfect work of Our
39:02Lord in his life and in his death very
39:06well I say we have to leave it at that
39:08for this evening but again I would
39:11impress upon you the importance of
39:14bearing in mind this further element in
39:16our Lord's
39:17work we mustn't confine our Doctrine and
39:21our teaching concerning the work of
39:23Christ solely to is acting as our
39:26substitute and sin Bearer let us
39:28remember that at the same time he has
39:31done what we have seen
39:33tonight with regard to the devil and sin
39:36and death and if you agree with Luther
39:39that the law and the wrath of God must
39:41be regarded as enemies against us he has
39:43also dealt with them and thus everything
39:47that stands between us and God has been
39:51dealt with and has been removed
39:54personally I always like to think that
39:57our Lord had all that in his mind when
40:00he uttered those beautiful and
40:02comforting and consoling Words which are
40:05to be found at the beginning of the 14th
40:07chapter of The Gospel According to St
40:09John let not your hearts be troubled he
40:12just been telling them about his going
40:15let not your heart be troubled he said
40:16he believe in God believe also in me in
40:20my father's house and many mentions if
40:22it were not so I would have told you now
40:24then I go
40:27to prepare a place for
40:30you and I think that he means by those
40:33words I go to prepare a place for you
40:37that he was going to remove every
40:40obstacle that stands between us and
40:43heaven and being with God and enjoying
40:47his glorious
40:49presence he cannot prepare a mention for
40:52us in
40:53heaven without first of all destroying
40:56the works of the devil destroying sin
40:59and its Dominion destroying death and
41:02the grave he had to do all that in
41:06addition to satisfying God's justice and
41:09God's holy law and offering this
41:12propitiation that removes the wrath of
41:15God before he can prepare a place for us
41:21in heaven and then come back and receive
41:24us unto himself that where he is we may
41:27be also well there I say we see this
41:31active representation added to the
41:34substitutionary and penal explanation
41:37and you have a complete view let us
41:45pray almighty
41:47God we again confess in thy holy
41:50presence our sense of wonder and
41:54amazement at the greatness of this
41:56salvation
41:58oh God forgive us that we are so prone
42:01to confine
42:03it forgive us that we fail to rise to
42:07this large and full
42:09realization of what thy son our blessed
42:12Lord has done oh we thank thee for the
42:16completion for the Perfection of the
42:18work we do indeed begin to understand
42:21Thy word which tells us that it became
42:24thee that thou should us do these things
42:27in this way oh God we thank thee for all
42:32these manifestations of thy Perfection
42:34and of thy glory and we thank thee that
42:37we are the recipients of such riches and
42:40such amazing blessings open our
42:43understandings oh Lord that we may truly
42:47grasp these things and now May the grace
42:51of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of
42:54God and the fellowship and the communion
42:56of the Holy Spirit abide and continue
42:59with us now this night and ever
43:02more amen

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