Mind Potter

This is the fifth post in a series summarizing the chapters of R. C. Sproul’s book, THE TRUTH OF THE CROSS.

Chapter 5 – The Saving Substitute

Jesus, the Righteous Substitute

• “Jesus had to submit Himself to every detail of every law God had given to the nation.”

Expiation:

• “… taking away the guilt through the payment of a penalty or the offering of an atonment.”

Propitiation:

• “… brings about a change in God’s attitude, so that He moves from being at enmity with us to being for us. Through the process of propitiation, we are restored into fellowship and favor with Him.

Salvation:

• Generally speaking “any experience of deliverance from a clear and present danger can be spoken of as a form of salvation.”
• Biblically speaking “Jesus ‘delivers us form the wrath to come.’”
• “Therefore, Christ’s supreme achievement on the cross is that He placated the wrath of God, which would burn against us were we not covered by the sacrifice of Christ.”

Substitutionary Atonement:

• A Substitute has appeared in space and time, appointed by God Himself, to bear the weight and the burden of our transgressions, to make expiation for our guild, and to propitiate the wrath of God on our behalf. This is the gospel. Therefore, if you take away the substitutionary atonement, you empty the cross of its meaning and drain all the significance out of the passion of our Lord Himself. If you do that, you take away Chrsitianity itself.”

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