NT Framework - On OT Atonement Modified

Atonement isn't just an Old Testament concept, it has a future; not in our lifetime but in a world that is soon to come. Yes, atonement will be absolutely needed in the millennial kingdom.

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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner. 

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and
our series on the New Testamentframework.
Today, a smaller, bite-sizedpiece from the larger lesson.
We hope you enjoy it.

SPEAKER_01 (00:10):
We want to go into the New Testament and talk about
the three words that the NewTestament authors use to
describe the atonement, becauseagain, they don't use the word
atonement.
The closest one is the thirdone, propitiation, but it's
still not a perfect word todescribe the Old Testament word.
So this is common though.

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We do this in every area of lifethat we study.
You start with really basicthings, and some of these terms
are just kind of all and youknow all-encompassing words that
capture an idea, and then laterwe flesh it out.
And that's how God teaches.
As we go into this, you'llunderstand, of course, and you

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may already understand, ofcourse, that when we talk about
salvation being simple, on onehand, it is entirely simple.
I mean, it's so simple that akid can understand it and
believe the gospel, right?
A four-year-old.
Um, you just tell him, hey,Christ paid the penalty for your
sins.
If you believe in him, you won'tgo to hell, or you or you'll go
to heaven, or whatever.

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You just put it in simple terms.
It's not that complicated.
But then you, it's salvation isso complicated you can spend the
rest of your life getting intothe details.
And this just shows us some ofthe some of the details as you
look more closely.
So I want to look at these wordsuh redemption, reconciliation,
and propitiation.
They're all aspects or developthe concepts of the Old

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Testament Atonement.
So redemption.
Let's talk about this term justin terms of our culture.
Okay, it's an economic term.
I mean, if you get a coupon, youknow, when you take it and you
give it to the checkout lady,they do what to it?
Redeem it.
Okay, so it's an economic term.
It describes being an indebtedslave that's freed because the

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debt has been paid.
Okay, so that's the backgroundof the term in economics.
And by the way, um, this termrelates to the concept of debt
in our society.
So, well, governments todaythey're real responsible.
They operate on debt.
Um basically they're like littlechildren who have no clue how to

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spend money.
Did y'all hear what happened inArgentina recently?
Uh one of the guys that wants torun the country or whatever was
proposing that Argentina they'reon uh the peso, okay.
Before COVID, the uh 20 pesoswas an American dollar, okay,
before COVID.
This guy wants to go over to theAmerican dollar.
He wants to get Argentina on theAmerican dollar as their

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currency.
Um why?
Well, because now, after COVID,it's a thousand pesos for one
dollar.
Uh that's the kind of inflationthat they've seen.
Well, why do they have so muchinflation?
Because they don't know how tospend money.
They don't know how to spendwithin limits.
Um we have many most societiesaround the world, which are now

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trending toward globalsocieties, include our own
society, uh our governments,they have no idea how that, you
know, if if it says you havethis many dollars in your bank
account, that's all the moneyyou have.
But not for them.
Um we can just, you know, makemore money and spend more than
we have.
Um, you know, we we tell ourchildren you should be res,

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well, maybe we tell our childrenyou should be responsible
spenders.
If you get a credit card, youshould pay it off every month
and so forth.
Uh, but don't you know runyourself into a lot of debt
because debt biblically isslavery.
The the borrower is indebted tothe lender.
Um and what most people do, ofcourse, is they just have a

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piece of plastic and so theyjust they just spend wildly.
And because it's so wild anddebt is accepted as a pot as a
reasonable way to live, now wehave this thing called
bankruptcy, where you can justget out of it all.
Well um Biblically, this is whatwhat is happening is societies

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like that are losing thecapability to understand what
Jesus Christ has done on thecross because God doesn't allow
you to just file bankruptcy atthe end and say I messed up and
it just gets erased.
No, like the debt actually hasto be paid, and that's what
Jesus Christ came to do.

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He came to pay the debt.
But you can see how it getsincreasingly difficult to
communicate this concept topeople when they live in a
system that endorses debt andultimately just filing
bankruptcy.
So let's look at this word alittle bit and turn to 1 Peter
1.18.
We were slaves to sin.
Romans 6 says this, it was ourmaster, and we've been freed

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because our debt has been paidby Christ.

SPEAKER_02 (05:04):
1 Peter chapter 1, verse 18.

SPEAKER_01 (05:12):
This this uh word focuses, or I say this word
redemption is sinward.
Okay, reconciliation is going tobe manward, and propitiation is
gonna be godward.
So each of these words have adifferent direction or main
focal point.
And the focal point ofredemption is sin.
It's dealing with the sinproblem and the payment that's
made for sin.

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So 1 Peter 1.18.
Knowing that you are notredeemed, there's the word
redemption, you are not redeemedwith perishable things like
silver or gold from your futileway of life inherited from your
forefathers, but you wereredeemed with precious blood, as
of a lamb, unblemished andspotless, the blood of Christ.

SPEAKER_02 (05:58):
Right?

SPEAKER_01 (05:58):
The uh he's the Passover lamb, the fulfillment
of Passover.
And so he made the payment.
This word is looking at apayment that's been made for our
debt, and that payment was hisown notice, not just blood, but
precious blood, because hisblood was unblemished and

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spotless.
These are both figures.
I mean, they play off thePassover imagery of the Lamb,
but they're talking about hispurity and his lack of having
any sin, right?
Which is what makes him qualifyto actually pay the debt, the
redemption price, to free usfrom being slaves to sin.

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Uh so in order to redeem us fromslavery to sin, someone had to
make a payment.
It's it's his his preciousblood, which is his life in the
Old Testament, the life is inthe blood.
He gave his life to pay ourdebt, right?
And therefore give us or set usfree from being slaves.

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