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ABRAHAM AS INTERCESSOR
Qospel. The Blood is the remedy for sin, the Gospel is
the method of application, and eternal life is the reward,
the ultimate Highest Good.
In a word: Diviiie Justice required the Atoneiizent,
und Divirie Love Provided it. God freely gave His Son,
who--“for the joy that was set before him,” the sheer joy
I of redeeming lost souls, Heb. 12:2--endured the cross,
I despising shame, and “hath sat down at the right hand of
the throne of God.” As stated so clearly by W. Robertson-
I Smith (The Religioii ,of the Semites, p. 62) ‘TO reconcile
the forgiving goodness of God with His absolute justice
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is one of the highest problems of spiritual religion, which
in Christianity is solved by the doctrine of the Atone-
ment.” The design of the Atonement must be regarded
as twofold, namely, to vindicate God’s justice and so sus-
tain the majesty of the moral law, and at the same time
to woo man back into a state of reconciliation by a demon-
stration of His ineffable love and compassion sufficient to
overcome-in every honest and good heart-the re bellion
engendered by sin. To omit either of these objectives is
to distort the doctrine of the Atonement. (Cf. 2 Cor.
5:18-20, Luke 8:15, Rom. 3:26, 1 Cor. 6:2, Rom. 2:4-16,
Rev. 20:11-15, 22:1-5, 10:15, etc.).
IV. Where does the penitent believer meet the efficacy
of the Blood of Christ?
Denominationalized preachers proclaim glibly that we
are cleansed by the blood of Christ (which, to be sure, is
true), but they never tell the inquiring penitent how and
where to meet the efficacy of that blood; that is, they
never tell him in Scripture terms. In fact the great
majority seem to have no conception of what the New
Testament teaches about this important matter, even
though the teaching is clear. We must accept and confess
Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God. We must
repent of our sins; then we meet the cleansing blood of
Jesus when, as penitent believers, we actually eizter into the
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