Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy approaches Bible teaching with a passion for getting the basic doctrines explained so that the individual can understand them and then apply them to circumstances in their life. These basic and important lessons are nestled in a framework of history and progression of revelation from the Bible so the whole of Scripture can be applied to your physical and spiritual life.
Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas
NT Framework - On OT Atonement Modified
Atonement isn't just an Old Testament concept, it has a future; not in our lifetime but in a world that is soon to come. Yes, atonement will be absolutely needed in the millennial kingdom.
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Jeremy Thomas is the pastor at Spokane Bible Church in Spokane, Washington and a professor at Chafer Theological Seminary. He has been teaching the Bible for over 20 years, always seeking to present its truths in a clear and understandable manner.
Welcome to Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas and our series on the New Testament framework. Today, a smaller, bite-sized piece from the larger lesson. We hope you enjoy it.
SPEAKER_01:We want to go into the New Testament and talk about the three words that the New Testament authors use to describe the atonement, because again, they don't use the word atonement. The closest one is the third one, propitiation, but it's still not a perfect word to describe the Old Testament word. So this is common though. We do this in every area of life that we study. You start with really basic things, and some of these terms are just kind of all and you know all-encompassing words that capture an idea, and then later we flesh it out. And that's how God teaches. As we go into this, you'll understand, of course, and you may already understand, of course, that when we talk about salvation being simple, on one hand, it is entirely simple. I mean, it's so simple that a kid can understand it and believe the gospel, right? A four-year-old. Um, you just tell him, hey, Christ paid the penalty for your sins. If you believe in him, you won't go to hell, or you or you'll go to heaven, or whatever. You just put it in simple terms. It's not that complicated. But then you, it's salvation is so complicated you can spend the rest of your life getting into the details. And this just shows us some of the some of the details as you look more closely. So I want to look at these words uh redemption, reconciliation, and propitiation. They're all aspects or develop the concepts of the Old Testament Atonement. So redemption. Let's talk about this term just in terms of our culture. Okay, it's an economic term. I mean, if you get a coupon, you know, when you take it and you give it to the checkout lady, they do what to it? Redeem it. Okay, so it's an economic term. It describes being an indebted slave that's freed because the debt has been paid. Okay, so that's the background of the term in economics. And by the way, um, this term relates to the concept of debt in our society. So, well, governments today they're real responsible. They operate on debt. Um basically they're like little children who have no clue how to spend money. Did y'all hear what happened in Argentina recently? Uh one of the guys that wants to run the country or whatever was proposing that Argentina they're on uh the peso, okay. Before COVID, the uh 20 pesos was an American dollar, okay, before COVID. This guy wants to go over to the American dollar. He wants to get Argentina on the American dollar as their currency. Um why? Well, because now, after COVID, it's a thousand pesos for one dollar. Uh that's the kind of inflation that they've seen. Well, why do they have so much inflation? Because they don't know how to spend money. They don't know how to spend within limits. Um we have many most societies around the world, which are now trending toward global societies, include our own society, uh our governments, they have no idea how that, you know, if if it says you have this many dollars in your bank account, that's all the money you have. But not for them. Um we can just, you know, make more money and spend more than we have. Um, you know, we we tell our children you should be res, well, maybe we tell our children you should be responsible spenders. If you get a credit card, you should pay it off every month and so forth. Uh, but don't you know run yourself into a lot of debt because debt biblically is slavery. The the borrower is indebted to the lender. Um and what most people do, of course, is they just have a piece of plastic and so they just they just spend wildly. And because it's so wild and debt is accepted as a pot as a reasonable way to live, now we have this thing called bankruptcy, where you can just get out of it all. Well um Biblically, this is what what is happening is societies like that are losing the capability to understand what Jesus Christ has done on the cross because God doesn't allow you to just file bankruptcy at the end and say I messed up and it just gets erased. No, like the debt actually has to be paid, and that's what Jesus Christ came to do. He came to pay the debt. But you can see how it gets increasingly difficult to communicate this concept to people when they live in a system that endorses debt and ultimately just filing bankruptcy. So let's look at this word a little bit and turn to 1 Peter 1.18. We were slaves to sin. Romans 6 says this, it was our master, and we've been freed because our debt has been paid by Christ.
SPEAKER_02:1 Peter chapter 1, verse 18.
SPEAKER_01:This this uh word focuses, or I say this word redemption is sinward. Okay, reconciliation is going to be manward, and propitiation is gonna be godward. So each of these words have a different direction or main focal point. And the focal point of redemption is sin. It's dealing with the sin problem and the payment that's made for sin. So 1 Peter 1.18. Knowing that you are not redeemed, there's the word redemption, you are not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but you were redeemed with precious blood, as of a lamb, unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
SPEAKER_02:Right?
SPEAKER_01:The uh he's the Passover lamb, the fulfillment of Passover. And so he made the payment. This word is looking at a payment that's been made for our debt, and that payment was his own notice, not just blood, but precious blood, because his blood was unblemished and spotless. These are both figures. I mean, they play off the Passover imagery of the Lamb, but they're talking about his purity and his lack of having any sin, right? Which is what makes him qualify to actually pay the debt, the redemption price, to free us from being slaves to sin. Uh so in order to redeem us from slavery to sin, someone had to make a payment. It's it's his his precious blood, which is his life in the Old Testament, the life is in the blood. He gave his life to pay our debt, right? And therefore give us or set us free from being slaves.
SPEAKER_00:Thank you for joining us on Beyond the Walls with Jeremy Thomas. If you would like to see the visuals that went along with today's sermon, you can find those on Rumble and on YouTube under Spokane Bible Church. That is where Jeremy is the pastor and teacher. We hope you found today's lesson productive and useful in growing closer to God and walking more obediently with Him. If you found this podcast to be useful and helpful, then please consider rating us in your favorite podcast app. And until next time, we hope you have a blessed and wonderful day.