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episode 15: Saved by What? By RC Sproul - Chapter 6 Blessing or Curse PART 2 with Pastor William Shifflett
CURSED: CUT OFF FROM GOD’S PRESENCE
God describes an outer darkness, far from the light of His countenance. The outer darkness was the abode of the gentile. Outside the camp, the territory of those who were strangers to the covenant, the “unclean”.
Lev. 16:20-22 Page 71
Jews had the ceremony of the “Day of the Atonement” which in refers to the darkness of being “outside the camp” which involved a scapegoat.
Tell us about the ceremony on the Day of the Atonement.
JESUS OUR CURSE
Galatians 3:10-14 – Page 72
The Apostle Paul is reminding them of the terms of the Covenant.
The law is not based on faith. The object of saving faith is Jesus because He alone is able to remove the curse from us.
Gal. 3:13 Page 73 – In the cross, Christ has become a curse for us.
How did Christ become a curse?
At the cross many Old Testament prophetic utterances are fulfilled to the most minute detail.
Delivered to the gentiles – (outside the camp, where the light of God’s countenance does not fall)
Just as the scapegoat was driven outside the camp, Jesus was forcibly led outside the walls of Jerusalem.
The Jews executed by stoning – Jesus’ death was “hanging upon a tree”.
We see the concept of cursing and blessing associated with a tree is found throughout Scripture.
In Genesis 3 Eve and then Adam eat fruit from a tree from which they were forbidden to eat.
Acts 5:30 states, “The God of our fathers raised Jesus, whom you killed by hanging him on a tree”.
Acts 10:39 says, “They put him to death by hanging him on a tree”. See also Acts 13:29.
Revelation 22:14-15 says, “Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life and that they may enter the city by the gates.
Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.”
A tree was involved in the entry of sin (through the tree in the Garden), the answer to sin (through the cross), and the removal of sin in eternity (through the tree of life).
“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God” (2 Cor. 5:21). Jesus bore our sins, our guilt, and then also bore the awful wrath of God in our place—the punishment we deserved because of our sin.
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