Romans 5:20-21
Romans 6
Colossians 2:9-14
Living the Christ Life 11: The Glory of Reconciliation Part 2
Romans 5
When the Light Comes On
Psalm 73
Living the Christ Life 10: The Glory of Reconciliation
Living the Christ Life 9: From Tribulation to Hope
Romans 5:1-8
James 1:2-3
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Living the Christ Life 8: The Blessings of Justification
Living the Christ Life 7: No Externals, No Law, Just Faith
Romans 4
Romans 3:19-4:25 shows the Divine settlement between God & Christ over sins. We are the passive party that receives blessings & benefit. However we may try, we are not allowed to have any role in justification. We can only receive.
Living the Christ Life 6: Justification Can Never Be Earned
Romans 4:1-8
Joshua 24:1-3
Genesis 11:27-12:3
Genesis 15:1-7
Living the Christ Life 5: YHWH Reclaiming the Nations
Resources
Romans 3:19-31
Genesis 15:6
Genesis 11:1-9
Psalms 82
Matthew 28:18-20
Ephesians 2:8-18
Romans 10:4
Deuteronomy 32:7–9
Deuteronomy 32:16–17
"Most English Bibles do not read 'according to the number of the sons of God' in Deuteronomy 32:8. Rather, they read 'according to the number of the sons of Israel.' The difference derives from disagreements between manuscripts of the Old Testament. 'Sons of God' is the correct reading, as is now known from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Frankly, you don’t need to know all the technical reasons for why the 'sons of God' reading in Deuteronomy 32:8-9 is what the verse originally said. You just need to think a bit about the wrong reading, the 'sons of Israel.'
Deuteronomy 32:8-9 harks back to events at the Tower of Babel, an event that occurred before the call of Abraham, the father of the nation of Israel. This means that the nations of the earth were divided at Babel before Israel even existed as a people. It would make no sense for God to divide up the nations of the earth 'according to the number of the sons of Israel' if there was no Israel."
Michael S. Heiser, The Unseen Realm (Lexham Press, 2015), 113.
Summary Statement
Through Jesus Christ, God is gathering the nations back to Himself- Both disinherited Gentiles and wayward Jews. “Faith” makes for equal-footing before YHWH, with acceptance being gained by the bloodwork of Jesus Christ.
Living the Christ Life 4: Costly, but Free 2
Redemption: GREEK-apolutrosis- "to set free, to liberate, to deliver, liberation, deliverance" (Louw-Nida). "to deliver by paying a price" (Scofield).
Regarding justification, this is not a ransom that is paid to Satan in exchange for sinners.
Resources
Romans 3:19-31
The human race belongs to God. He is the Creator, we are the creatures. The ransom paid is due to sin condemning us and enslaving us. "It was God who exacted payment; yet the Bible does not speak of a ransom being paid to God the Father for He did not hold us in bondage" (Radmacher).
Regarding justification, "redemption" is a payment made that sets the believer free from the penalty of sins.
Propitiation: “The Gk. words dealing with the doctrine of propitiation are:
hilasmos, signifying what our Lord became for the sinner (1 John 2:2; 4:10);
*hilasterion*, denoting the place of propitiation (Rom. 3:25; cf. Heb. 9:5); and
hilaskomai, indicating that God has become gracious, or propitious (Luke 18:13; Heb. 2:17).”
TYPE/ANTITYPE- “Types are real persons, events, or things in the Old Testament that have a substantial relationship with corresponding New Testament persons, events, or things. The New Testament fulfilling is called an antitype.”
Sometimes: OT=Physical Events. NT=Spiritual Truths
“Once a year, on the great Day of Atonement, the Jewish high priest and he alone took blood from the great altar of burnt offering and went into the Holy of Holies, into which none dared enter but he and he only for the purpose of this function and sprinkled that blood on the Kapporeth, the cover of the Ark of the Covenant, called the mercy seat, in order to cover the sins of the whole people. In the Ark were deposited the tables of the law, that law which condemned these sins. The Kapporeth covered those tables; but only when it was thus sprinkled with expiatory blood did it cover the sins of the people from God and from his punishment.”
-R. C. H. Lenski, The Interpretation of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, 256.
"Because Christ paid the full ransom price for sin forever and is the Propitiation that satisfied the holiness of our righteous God, God can be righteous while at the same time declaring believers righteous."
-Earl D. Radmacher, Salvation, p. 138
"God is therefore at rest about us forever, however poor our understanding of truth, however weak our walk. God is looking at the blood of Christ, and not at our sins. All claims against us were met when Christ 'made peace by the blood of His cross.'”
-William R. Newell, Romans Verse-by-Verse, 114.