CHRIST: DID HE SUFFER ATONINGLY IN HIS LIFE?
The answer to this vital question is an emphatic, unequivocal NO!!
Recently while "gathered to His Name," to "call Him to mind," as He so poignantly requested His own, on giving thanks for the bread the brother referred to the loaf as symbolic of the Lords' life! I do not wish to make my brother in Christ an offender for a word, but this is gross error! That Christ suffered for sin BEFORE His death on Golgothas' cursed tree has been "taught" in past centuries and is now being disseminated among the Lords' people.
Men from diverse persuasions within Christendom held this false doctrine: including John Stott, the late Anglican cleric; Matthew Henry, 1662-1714, a Welsh non-conformist Presbyterian "minister;" F.W. Krummacher, an 18/19th century Reformed Church "minister, an advocate of Lutheranism; C.H. Spurgeon, a Particular Baptist preacher.
The Lord Jesus remained undefiled throughout His entire sojourn in this scene, until He was "made sin," by His God there upon the cross, and ONLY during those three hours of impenetrable darkness! It was then and only then that "Jehovah caused to meet upon Him the iniquity of us all!" Before the darkness enveloped "all the earth," and He was abandoned of His God; and as soon as He emerged Victor, He addressed His God as "Father!" During His hours of being forsaken, He cried out to the One He owned as "My God!"
"Himself bare our sins in His own body ON the tree; Note well the preposition "ON," not TO, "the tree."
It behoves us to be careful of basing "truth" upon the hymns we sing! Very many are most precious and of real value in connection with praise, but some are erroneous in varying degree!
It is instructive to recall that in the "Meal Offering" which is most perfectly "typical" of our Lords' life, His impeccable and morally beauteous walk, there is no suggestion of sin-bearing or of His shed blood, no thought of atonement!
We could considerably multiply Scripture evidence for our setting this forth as the truth as to the atoning work of the Saviour at Calvary and nowhere else, not even in Gethsemanes' garden. But we trust this is sufficient for those who bow to the Word of God.
"Without shedding of blood there is NO remission;" Hebrews 9:22.
"For it is the (His) blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." Leviticus 17:11.
Men from diverse persuasions within Christendom held this false doctrine: including John Stott, the late Anglican cleric; Matthew Henry, 1662-1714, a Welsh non-conformist Presbyterian "minister;" F.W. Krummacher, an 18/19th century Reformed Church "minister, an advocate of Lutheranism; C.H. Spurgeon, a Particular Baptist preacher.
The Lord Jesus remained undefiled throughout His entire sojourn in this scene, until He was "made sin," by His God there upon the cross, and ONLY during those three hours of impenetrable darkness! It was then and only then that "Jehovah caused to meet upon Him the iniquity of us all!" Before the darkness enveloped "all the earth," and He was abandoned of His God; and as soon as He emerged Victor, He addressed His God as "Father!" During His hours of being forsaken, He cried out to the One He owned as "My God!"
"Himself bare our sins in His own body ON the tree; Note well the preposition "ON," not TO, "the tree."
It behoves us to be careful of basing "truth" upon the hymns we sing! Very many are most precious and of real value in connection with praise, but some are erroneous in varying degree!
It is instructive to recall that in the "Meal Offering" which is most perfectly "typical" of our Lords' life, His impeccable and morally beauteous walk, there is no suggestion of sin-bearing or of His shed blood, no thought of atonement!
We could considerably multiply Scripture evidence for our setting this forth as the truth as to the atoning work of the Saviour at Calvary and nowhere else, not even in Gethsemanes' garden. But we trust this is sufficient for those who bow to the Word of God.
"Without shedding of blood there is NO remission;" Hebrews 9:22.
"For it is the (His) blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." Leviticus 17:11.
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