The Raw Gospel Encounter with God (The Setting) ~ GOD A Clear Realization of Self (The Problem) ~ US Cleansing/Forgiveness (The Solution) ~ JESUS Response

The Raw Gospel

Encounter with God (The Setting)

~ GOD

A Clear Realization of Self (The Problem)

~ US

Cleansing/Forgiveness (The Solution)

~ JESUS

Response (The Change)

~ RESPONSE

Preaching the Gospel

to yourself

!

“Fancy” Words that will change your life:

RighteousnessJustification

Imputation vrs. ImpartationAlien Righteousness

Substitutionary AtonementReligiousity vrs. Gospelicity

Living

FROMnot

FORyour righteousness!

Imputation is SWEET!

Imputation is SWEET!

But how does it help me deal with the guilt and

shame of my past/current sins?

Defiled Dirty

Shameful StupidGuilty

Two New“Fancy” Words that will change

your life:

PropitiationExpiation

The Debate:

The Debate:Romans 3:25

King JamesWhom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the

remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;




Revised Standard Versionwhom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness,

because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins;




Revised Standard Versionwhom God put forward as an expiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness,

because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins;

English Standard Versionwhom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to

be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had

passed over former sins.

The Debate:

Hebrews 2:171 John 2:2

1 John 4:10

The Day of Atonement


Leviticus 161The LORD spoke to Moses after the death of the

two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the LORD. 2The LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the

cloud over the atonement cover.


Leviticus 163“This is how Aaron is to enter the sanctuary

area: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering. 4 He is to put on the

sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him

and put on the linen turban. These are sacred garments; so he must bathe himself with water

before he puts them on. 5From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin

offering and a ram for a burnt offering.


Leviticus 166“Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering

to make atonement for himself and his household. 7Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to

the Tent of Meeting. 8He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the LORD and the other for the scapegoat. 9Aaron shall bring the goat whose

lot falls to the LORD and sacrifice it for a sin offering. 10But the goat chosen by lot as the

scapegoat shall be presented alive before the LORD to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat.


Leviticus 1611“Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.

12He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD and two handfuls of finely

ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain. 13He is to put the incense on the fire before the LORD, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the Testimony, so that he will not die. 14He is to take some of the bull’s

blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement

cover.


Leviticus 1615“He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain

and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it. 16In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and

rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting,

which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness. 17No one is to be in the Tent of Meeting

from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole

community of Israel.


Leviticus 1618“Then he shall come out to the altar that is

before the LORD and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull’s blood and some of

the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar. 19He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to

consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.


Leviticus 1620“When Aaron has finished making atonement

for the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat.

21He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat

away into the desert in the care of a man appointed for the task. 22The goat will carry on

itself all their sins to a solitary place; and the man shall release it in the desert.


Leviticus 1629“This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the

tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work—whether native-

born or an alien living among you—30because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you.

Then, before the LORD, you will be clean from all your sins. 31It is a sabbath of rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance. 32The

priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to

put on the sacred linen garments 33and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, for the Tent of

Meeting and the altar, and for the priests and all the people of the community.


Leviticus 1634“This is to be a lasting ordinance for you:

Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites.” And it was done, as the

LORD commanded Moses.

The Promise of Cleansing


Ezekiel 36:24-3224“ ‘For I will take you out of the nations; I will

gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. 25I will sprinkle clean

water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your

idols. 26I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. 27And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. 28You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you

will be my people, and I will be your God.


Ezekiel 36:24-3229I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will

call for the grain and make it plentiful and will not bring famine upon you. 30I will increase the fruit

of the trees and the crops of the field, so that you will no longer suffer disgrace among the nations because of famine. 31Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your sins and detestable practices. 32I want you to know that I am not

doing this for your sake, declares the Sovereign LORD. Be ashamed and disgraced for your

conduct,O house of Israel!’ ”

Jesus is the perfect Expiation


Hebrews 9:11-10:411When Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here, he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say,

not a part of this creation. 12He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most

Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption. 13The blood of goats and bulls and

the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are

outwardly clean. 14How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!


Hebrews 9:11-10:415For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant,

that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance—now that he has died as a ransom to

set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.


Hebrews 9:11-10:416In the case of a will, it is necessary to prove the death of

the one who made it, 17because a will is in force only when somebody has died; it never takes effect while the

one who made it is living. 18This is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood. 19When

Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves, together with

water, scarlet wool and branches of hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people. 20He said, “This is the blood

of the covenant, which God has commanded you to keep.” 21In the same way, he sprinkled with the blood

both the tabernacle and everything used in its ceremonies. 22In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the

shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.


Hebrews 9:11-10:423It was necessary, then, for the copies of the heavenly

things to be purified with these sacrifices, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ did not enter a man-made sanctuary that was only a copy of the true one; he entered heaven itself, now to appear for us in God’s presence. 25Nor did

he enter heaven to offer himself again and again, the way the high priest enters the Most Holy Place every year with blood that is not his own. 26Then Christ would have had to

suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27Just as

man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second

time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.


Hebrews 9:11-10:410:1The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it

can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

2If it could, would they not have stopped being offered? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all,

and would no longer have felt guilty for their sins. 3But those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, 4because

it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goatsto take away sins.

Defiled Dirty

Shameful StupidGuilty

Gospel Application“How do I get clean?”

1 John 1:8-108If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and

the truth is not in us. 9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10If we claim we have not sinned, we

make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.


1. Allow Truth to be in you





2. Confess your sins





3. Look to the Character of Jesus





4. Look to the Accomplished Work of Jesus





5. The result of living in denial




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The Raw Gospel Encounter with God (The Setting) ~ GOD A Clear Realization of Self (The Problem) ~ US Cleansing/Forgiveness (The Solution) ~ JESUS Response