The death of the Lord Jesus Christ challenges the thinking of all when they approach the waters of baptism. Why did God arrange the salvation of man in this way? Was there not another way that would not require the death of a sinless man, an “altogether lovely one”? If the principle of his death…
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But another thought comes in connection with it, and it is this: if God is supreme, God cannot allow man’s challenge to go without response, because God cannot allow man’s sin to frustrate the purpose that He had in placing man upon the earth. But the two things bring us to a focal point, the pr…
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In this final article of the Atonement series we shall look at the subject overall, seeking with our limited perception to comprehend the greatness of the Divine wisdom, the enormity of His love, the wonder of the Son of God on the earth, living among mankind and raising to an altogether new standar…
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In the previous article we noted that Jesus was both Son of Man and Son of God. The fact that he was born of a woman did not detract from his unity and fellowship with the Father or the love and esteem that the Father had for him. For the Son of Man was also the Son of God, or as Yahweh so beaut…
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“I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me and before all the people I will be glorified” Leviticus 10:3
It is a curious matter that in discussions on the atonement there is little said about how the Lord Jesus saw it. Comment from the law of Moses is often made and reference to the writi…
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him” 2 Corinthians 5:21
This phrase is so often discussed in the context of the Atonement that it may be helpful to first see how it fits in its own context as the last verse of 2 C…
We have observed that the Law of Moses by its omissions and by its very provisions made it evident that it was unable to give life. It pointed out sin and magnified it; “by the Law is the knowledge of sin” (Rom 3:20; 7:7,13). It showed the way to something “better”. At the inauguration of th…
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This quotation is the summary in Hebrews of the weakness of the Law of Moses in respect to its sacrifices. It is one of several passages in which the Mosaic code of Divine worship is spoken of as a temporary tool of education and not intended to be the permanent institution. It was a shadow of the t…
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In the previous article in this series (January/February 2008), the line of thought of “Andrewism” was shown by a number of quotations from JJ Andrew’s writings. These quotations were from his book called “The Blood of the Covenant” and his magazine, “The Sanctuary Keeper”, which sough…
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In the year 1894 the North London ecclesia was the centre of a doctrinal controversy that not only split that meeting but had ramifications in the Brotherhood at large. In the United Kingdom, the United States and, to a lesser extent, other regions of the Brotherhood, the concepts of this tragic con…
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