PRELUDE
INTRODUCTION
Matt Felton
READINGS FROM CHURCH HISTORY
Reading 1 – Letter to Diognetus
Jerome Loughridge
(Anonymous), “Letter to Diognetus” [2nd Century AD]
“But when our wickedness had reached its height, and it had been
clearly shown that its reward, punishment and death, was impending
over us; and when the time had come which God had before appointed
for manifesting His own kindness and power, how the one love of God,
through exceeding regard for men, did not regard us with hatred, nor
thrust us away, nor remember our iniquity against us, but showed
great long-suffering, and bore with us, He Himself took on Him the
burden of our iniquities, He gave His own Son as a ransom for us,
the holy One for transgressors, the blameless One for the wicked,
the righteous One for the unrighteous, the incorruptible One for the
corruptible, the immortal One for them that are mortal. For what
other thing was capable of covering our sins than His righteousness?
By what other one was it possible that we, the wicked and ungodly,
could be justified, than by the only Son of God? O sweet exchange!
O unsearchable operation! O benefits surpassing all expectation!
that the wickedness of many should be hid in a single righteous One,
and that the righteousness of One should justify many transgressors!
Having therefore convinced us in the former time that our nature was
unable to attain to life, and having now revealed the Saviour who is
able to save even those things which it was [formerly] impossible to
save, by both these facts He desired to lead us to trust in His kindness,
to esteem Him our Nourisher, Father, Teacher, Counsellor, Healer,
our Wisdom, Light, Honour, Glory, Power, and Life.”
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Reading 2 – Charles Spurgeon
Spurgeon, “The Blood of Sprinkling” [Feb.28,1886]
Asher Griffin
“What a voice there is in the atonement!—a voice which pleads for
holiness and love, for justice and grace, for truth and mercy. ‘See that
ye refuse not him that speaketh.’”
“Do you not hear it? If you take away the blood of sprinkling from
the gospel, you have silenced it. It has no voice if this be gone. “Oh,”
they say, “the gospel has lost its power!” What wonder when they
have made it a dumb gospel! How can it have power when they
take away that which is its life and speech? Unless the preacher is
evermore preaching this blood, and sprinkling it by the doctrine
of faith, his teaching has no voice either to rouse the careless or to
cheer the anxious. If ever there should come a wretched day when all
our pulpits shall be full of modern thought, and the old doctrine of
a substitutionary sacrifice shall be exploded, then will there remain
no word of comfort for the guilty or hope for the despairing. Hushed
will be for ever those silver notes which now console the living, and
cheer the dying; a dumb spirit will possess this sullen world, and no
voice of joy will break the blank silence of despair. The gospel speaks
through the propitiation for sin, and if that be denied, it speaketh
no more. Those who preach not the atonement exhibit a dumb and
dummy gospel; a mouth it hath, but speaketh not; they that make it
are like unto their idol.”
SCRIPTURE READINGS
Seth Wachtel
Psalm 53:1-3 – Scripture of Judgment
Psalm 49:7-9 – Scripture of Dilemma/Waiting
Isaiah 53:4-6 - Scripture of Promise
2 Corinthians 5:21 - Scripture of Fulfillment
PASTORAL PRAYER
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Seth Wachtel
LECTURE: Doctrine of Substitutionary Atonement
Dennis Newkirk, Lead Pastor
I. Synonyms
II. Scriptural Support
Genesis 22:13; Isaiah 53:4–5; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Romans 4:25;
1 Peter 2:24;1 John 2:2, 4:10
III. Background Doctrines
A. The Nature of God
Exodus 15:11, 34:7; Numbers 14:18; Psalm 5:4–6; Isaiah 6:1-5;
Nahum 1:2–3; Habakkuk 1:13; Romans 1:18
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B. The Status of the Law
C. The Human Condition
D. Christ
Philippians 3:9, 1 Corinthians 1:30, Romans 5:19
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E. The Old Testament Sacrificial System
Genesis 3:21, 4:4, 22:13; Exodus 12, 29:35-37; Leviticus 17:11;
Hebrews 9:22, 11:4; Isaiah 53
IV. Atonement Components
A. Sacrifice
Psalm 103:12; Isaiah 43:25; Jeremiah 33:8, 50:20; Micah 7:18;
Matthew 20:28; John 1:29, 11:49-50, 17:19, 18:14; Romans 3:24-26,
11:27; Galatians 3:13; Ephesians 5:1–2; Hebrews 9:28, 10:17
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B. Propitiation
Romans 3:25–26; Hebrews 2:17; 1 John 2:2, 4:10
C. Substitution
John 15:13; Isaiah 53:4–6; 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Peter 2:24;
Titus 2:14
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Additional Notes:
CONGREGATIONAL SINGING
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
There is a Fountain Filled with Blood
It is Well
ELDER EXHORTATION
HYMN READING
Tony Capucille
Joe Williams, Dominick Wytovich & Brad Sheriff
All Ye That Pass By
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CONGREGATIONAL SINGING
Jesus, Keep Me Near
CONGREGATIONAL CONFESSION & PRAYER Chris Newkirk
London Baptist Confession of Faith, 1689
“This office and duty of Mediator and Surety the Lord Jesus undertook
most willingly. To discharge it, He was made under the law, and
perfectly fulfilled it, and He underwent the punishment due to us,
which we should have borne and suffered. He was made sin and was
made a curse for us; enduring the most grevous sorrows in His Soul
with the most painful sufferings in His duty. He was crucified, and
died, and remained in the state of the dead, but His body did not
undergo any decomposition. On the third day He rose from the
dead with the same body in which He had suffered, with which He
also ascended into Heaven, and there sits at the right hand of His
Father making intercession, and shall return to judge men and
angels at the end of the world.”
Valley of Vision
“Love Lustres at Calvary”
DISMISSAL
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Chris Newkirk
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