NT Framework - Sinless One, Our Substitute

God made the sinless Christ to be sin for us, so we could become God’s righteousness through faith. It took no work from us to make this true.

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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):
2 Corinthians 5 21.
God made him, that's Christ, whoknew no sin, to be sin on our
behalf.
Why?
So that we might become therighteousness of God in him.

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So, verse 21, he made him whoknew no sin, that's obviously
Christ.
He didn't know any sinpersonally, never committed any
personal sin, to be sin on ourbehalf.
This is the imputation.
Okay.
The imputation of our sin to hisaccount on the cross, three
hours of darkness, right?
When he's paying the sin debt ofthe whole world, purpose of

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which we might become therighteousness of God.
How do we become therighteousness of God?
Through faith.
Always.
Righteousness is always throughfaith.
So this is something that makeshis death unique in that he
wasn't dying for his own sins,whereas everybody else who ever
died, they always died for theirown sins.
But he didn't have to die.

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I think this is.
But let's let's I want to lookat something from Jehovah's
Witnesses.
This is a quote from theirdocuments.
In this ransom work referring toJesus Christ's work on the
cross, right?
Jesus was assisted by the144,000.
They're getting that number outof Revelation 7, right?
Remember the 144,000?
They're historic, they hold to aview of prophecy as historicism.

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So they think the book ofRevelation is being fulfilled
down through church history.
Okay?
Not in the future, seven yearsbeing fulfilled through church
history.
And that the Jehovah's Witnessesare the 144,000.
Now, when the number ofJehovah's Witnesses got greater
than 144,000, they said, well,it's just a symbolic
representation.
But they're the 144,000.
But see, Jesus was assisted onthe cross by the 144,000.

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That's what they're saying.
We teach that according toIsaiah 53.2, which you can read.
They raise him up like a rootout of parched ground.
I can see nothing in it thateven relates to this, but that's
what they say.
According to Isaiah 53.2, themystical body of Christ consists
of Jesus as the head and the144,000 as his body.
Like Jesus, these 144,000sacrificed their right to live

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in this world, earned throughtheir perfect obedience to
Jehovah's theocracy.
And like Jesus, and these alonewill receive the immortality of
the soul.
So who who did the ransom work?
In in JW Theology?
Jesus and Mormon.
Or I'm sorry, Jesus andJehovah's Witnesses.
It's not Jesus alone, is it?

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It's Jesus and Jehovah'sWitnesses who made the
sacrifice.
That results in obedience thatgives immortality of the soul.
Is it Jesus plus you or Jesusplus me that secure the

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immortality of the soul by ourwork by our work on the cross of
obedience?
What does the Bible say?
Galatians 2 21 is what the Biblesays.
In other words, if we can do anywork for our salvation, guess

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what?
The crosswork was unnecessary.
Because somebody could be goodenough on the basis of their own
work.
So what would be the purpose ofChrist's death?
There would be no purpose.
So no, there's no assistance.
We don't assist Christ byanything that we do.

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Now here's this is the nextquote I'm going to give you is
from a mission group in theearly 1900s.
You have to understand allmission groups and church
organizations, seminaries andeverything, over time they tend
to change their doctrinaloutlook.
As far as seminar is concerned,the the history of seminaries

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says that whatever the foundingdocuments, doctrinal statements
are of a seminary, they willonly be held to for 75 years.
Historically.
That's a historic average.
After that, they depart fromthem.
Same thing would I think wouldbe basically true across the
board for mission organizationsand other entities.

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So this is a missionsorganization.
We're going to read what theysaid.
This is in a book calledRethinking Missions 1932.
Anyone remember that?
Okay, I want it.
The original objective of themission might be stated as the
conquest of the world byChristianity.

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I don't know if I would use suchmilitant language, but okay, if
they just mean softly to takethe gospel to all nations and
people to believe, great, buteh, they sound a little more
militant here.
So we may not agree with theoriginal objective.
But anyway, this is theirstatement.

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One name and one atonement.
This plan with this particularhistorical center in the career
of Jesus Christ must become thepoint of regard for every human
soul.
Okay, that that used to be.
There used to be one way.
There used to be one name.
There used to be one atonement.
It used to be centered on thecareer of Jesus Christ.

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And that was essential for everyhuman soul, right?
That's how it used to be.
That is passe.
That means that is outdated.
That's outdated now.
That's old school.
Nobody believes that anymore.
They say Christianity must nowrecognize that it has no

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monopoly on truth.
1932.
People wonder what's wrong withour country?
What's wrong?
This has been going on for a fewcenturies to get to where we are
now in our country.
It started before theDeclaration of Independence and

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the thinking of people.
We could trace it in history ifwe wanted.
We don't have time.
It is clearly not the duty ofthe Christian missionary to
attack the non-Christian systemof religion.
Don't say Buddhism is wrong.
Don't say Hinduism is wrong.
Don't say Confucianism is wrong.
Don't say all these otherreligious viewpoints are wrong.

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We're not supposed to do that.
Rather, what we're supposed todo is pool our resources with
other religions.
It's all just one ecumenical,syncretistic, one-world
religion.
We don't protest if it ifBuddhists and Muslims
incorporate Christian ideaswithout becoming Christians.
You know, just mix Jesus in withall your other gods.

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Just put them on the shelf nextto all your other gods.
He's just another God, just likeall the rest of them.
We desire the triumph of thatfinal truth.
We need not prescribe the route.
Is this what the Bible says?
What would they say about Actschapter 4, verse 12?

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Acts chapter 4, verse 12.
There is no name.
You know the rest of it?
There's no other name.
412, thank you.

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Did somebody say 12?
Yeah, 412.
There's salvation in no oneelse, for there is no other name
under heaven that has been givenamong men, of which we must be
saved.
What would they say about that?
That's passe.
They would have said that beforeyou were born.
They were already saying that.
What about John 14, 6, whereJesus said, I am the way, the

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way, the truth, and the life.
No one can come to the Father.
No God.
Does that sound exclusivistic?
It sounds like he's the onlyway.
They would say, that's Passe.
That's outdated.
I guess Jesus was wrong there.

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Why even be a Christian, right?
Just be an ecumenical spiritspiritist or something.

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