The Work of Christ in Heaven's Courtroom

Question 1

JUSTIFICATION

Answer 1

To be declared righteous
- Act of God, placing to our account the righteousness that belongs to Jesus (imputation)

Question 2

Justification- Results in

Answer 2

-Peace with God
- Freedom from sin
- Freedom from being condemned
- We will be like Him
- Glorified, changed to perfection

Question 3

PENALTY

Answer 3

The price to be paid for wrongdoing

Question 4

Penalty illustrated-

Answer 4

• Animal sacrificial system
• Penalty to be paid is death
• Innocent dying for the guilty, fellowship with a holy God

Question 5

SUBSTITUTION

Answer 5

In the place of another
- Christ’s death was in the place of sinners

Question 6

REDEMPTION

Answer 6

To buy back or out of
- Christ bought us out of God’s coming judgment and our own slavery to sin

Question 7

PROPITIATION

Answer 7

To appease anger, to turn aside wrath (satisfy)

Question 8

RECONCILIATION

Answer 8

To bring peace between two warring parties

Question 9

ATONEMENT

Answer 9

To purge or to cleanse

Question 10

Problem in the OT

Answer 10

• OT saints were ceremonially cleansed
• The sacrificial system pointed to its own shortcomings, and God made it that way

Question 11

What is “Penal Substitutionary Atonement”?

Answer 11

There was a penalty
1. Christ suffered in our place to make us clean and holy
2. We were expected to pay the consequences of our sin, He did it instead

Question 12

Personal Atonement

Answer 12

• Done by the offender
• A matter of strict justice
• Takes all of eternity to pay
• Never feels fully clean/free from guilt

Question 13

Substitutionary Atonement

Answer 13

• Done by the offended
• Combines justice with grace
• A once and for all sacrifice
• Accept by faith that we are clean