(17) Fixated on Jesus our Atonement - Hebrews 2:16-17 (p51f)

(17) Fixated on Jesus our Atonement - Hebrews 2:16-17 (p51f)

 

Fixated: Advent Meditations from the Book of Hebrews

Tim Chester

10 of those, 2020 ISBN: 9781913278953 73pp

https://www.10ofthose.com/uk/products/26683/fixated

 

Give thanks for Jesus, the Second and Last Adam, The Proper Man, The True and Perfect Human Being who shows us Humanity Fulfilled.

 

Now perhaps we are in a better position to give a fuller answer to Anselm’s famous question, Why Did God Become Man?

 

Christmas was for Easter. Jesus was born to die.

 

For every look at ourselves (and our sin), we do well to take several looks at Jesus (and his sinless sacrifice which puts away sin).

 

Jesus brought atonement, AT ONE MENT – his death reconciled us to God and made us at one, at peace with him. We were enemies of God, now we are his friends, brought back, brought home, for the relationship for which we were made. (See further Romans 5)

 

If you have the NIV you may have spotted the footnote for v17 that the word for “make atonement for” means to turn aside the wrath (the holy anger of God) by the payment of a price. Jesus is the propitiation for our sins (1 John 2:2; 4:10). His death in our place absorbs the holy anger of God at our sin. Justice divine is satisfied. God himself delivers us from God’s own wrath by his own sacrifice of Himself (in the person of God the Son).

 

Song: Now Why This Fear - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIiFIjZGnkM