Subject One Hundred Ninety-eight

JESUS IS THE PROPITIATION FOR OUR SINS

Scripture: 1 John 2:2; 4:10

1. Sin separates man from God
   1. Man’s sins violate God’s righteousness.
   2. God’s heart draws Him toward man in love, but God’s righteousness has forced Him to forsake man. Therefore, His love cannot reach sinful man.
2. The Lord Jesus propitiates for us
   1. The Lord Jesus bore man’s sins according to the requirements of God’s righteousness.
   2. The Lord Jesus propitiated the very matter which formerly prevented God’s love from reaching man.
3. God provides in love
   1. The Lord Jesus as our propitiation is the provision of God’s love.
   2. Because God, in His love, wants to be gracious to man while at the same time God’s righteousness puts requirements upon man, God provided man with the Lord Jesus as the propitiation.
   Note:The point is not that God was angry and would not forgive man, and that the Lord came to propitiate God’s wrath. We have to be clear. The One who conciliates the situation is God Himself. God’s heart causes Him to deal with man in love, but God’s righteousness puts requirements upon man. Therefore God Himself provided man with the Lord Jesus as the propitiation to propitiate the contradictory situation between God’s love and God’s righteousness.
4. How to obtain the propitiation of the Lord Jesus
   Develop this point.