The Significance of the Cross (part b)

Feb 2, 2020 • Roger Skepple • The Ransom Price Paid (Part 4): The Servant is Put to Death (Part 11): The Gospel According to Mark (Part 130)

The Gospel According to Mark

The Servant Attends His World:

A Ransom Given and Accepted (11:1-16:20) (Part 47)

The Servant’s Passion (14:1-15:47) (Part v)

The Servant is Put to Death (14:43-15:47) (Part 11)

The Ransom Price Paid (15:22-41) (Part 4)

g.His Death (15:22-41)

1)The Circumstance of the Crucifixion (15:22-32)

2)The Work of the Crucifixion (15:33-41)

Christianity and the Atonement

The Meaning of Atonement

●Atone (Kipper)to wipe away, wipe clean, or purge

The Need for Christ’s Atonement

●Expiation–God’s act of removing the guilt and sin of man by Christ’s suffering
punishment in the sinner’s place (Rom. 3:25-26; 1 Pet. 3:18).

●Forgiveness and Remission–Divine absolving of the sinner of his sinful offense
made possible through the Cross (Eph. 1:7; 1 Pet. 1:18-19).

●Justification–the declaration or proclamation of a person as righteous, that is,
possessing a right standing before God (Rom. 3:24).

●Penal–God’s punishing of Christ was the expression of God’s judicial authority
which demanded that sin must be paid for (Gal. 3:13).

●Propitiation–Godward effect of the value of the cross; God is propitious in that
Christ’s sacrifice allowed God to execute His love and mercy for sinners without
denying His justice, by fulfilling His judgment on the transgression against His will by
sinful man (Rom. 1:18; 3:25-26; 4:15; 5:9; 1 Jn. 2:2; 4:10).

●Reconciliation–Manward effect of the value of the Cross; the establishment of
peace between God and man by the quenching of God’s wrath and the changing of
man’s anti-God disposition (2 Cor. 5:16-21).

●Redemption and Ransom–Christ’s sacrifice provided a payment of a ransom price
for the debt owed by man to God (2 Pet. 2:1; Rev. 5:9-10; 1 Cor. 6:19-20).

●Satisfaction–God’s acceptance of Christ’s payment on the Cross (Acts 20:28).

●Vicarious-the substitutionary effect of the Cross; i.e. in the place of sinners (Gal.
3:13; 4:5).

The Effects of Christ’s Atonement

2)The Work of the Crucifixion (15:33-41)

a)The Response of the Creation (15:33)

b)The Response of the Father (15:34)

c)The Response of the Son (15:34)

d)The Response of the Bystanders (15:35-36)

e)The Response of the Son (15:37)

f)The Response of the Father (15:38)

(1)It Validates the Work of Christ

(2)It Renders the Temple Inoperative

(a)The Practical Implications

(b)The Theological Implications

g)The Response of the Centurion (15:39)

h)The Response of the Women (15:40-41)