Lesson 32 August 21, 2002

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Summary 3:23

1.  Before the coming of the Messiah and the Cross,  individuals during the age of Israel lived under the authority of the Law.

 

 

 

Rem: the law was only given to Israel and that they were a redeemed people.

Rem: If you examine the whole realm of the Law you discover its wide ranging impact on the people and their lives.  Whole life!  every aspect!

 

Usually find the Law broken down into 3 sections.

a.  The Commandments -  dealt with moral issues - decalogue   Exodus 20:1-26

b.  Ceremonial regulations -  regulated their relationship with God -  feasts, sacrifices;  worship ; what this amounted to was a shadow Christology                     Ex. 24:12 - 31:18;  Lev.   [pointed to the solution, the prophesied Messiah]

-  was a shadow pointing to the Messiah; when the faith came now had the reality.

c.  The Judgements - mishphatim - application of the moral law to social and civic life;  Ex.  21:1- 24:11                                       [ordinances in KJV]

 

2.  Under the Law they were held in custody, in the sense that were unable to escape the consciousness of their sin, their transgression (overstepping) and their liability to punishment.

 

 

3.  For the UB'r  it was designed to bring him to the realization of their need of salvation by faith in the Messiah who was depicted clearly in the sacrifices and feasts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.  For the believer in Israel who responded to the truth and lived it out, that is, was obedient to it,  being motivated by their relationship with God was recipient of great blessing.   Deut. 8;  10:11-12

 

5.  The M/L  was  designed by God to be a restrainer of man with an sin nature as  protection and preservation in time. 

 

6.  All were shut up, confined under the law with the result they were condemned by the law so that the only way of escape from sin and its penalty is by faith in the Messiah.

 

7.  The picture Paul paints in the context of redemption history (salvation history)  of Israel before the coming of "the faith" is one of a child  in need of external discipline.

 

 

 

8.  Now after the cross, as new creations in Christ we are no longer children but are blessed by being adult sons of God, with infinite resources that are ours in Christ.

 

9.   Before and after the cross the issue in salvation, or the means of salvation has always been by faith, we're justified by faith not by works of any kind.

 

 

Rabbit trail to Rom 3:24-25

What is taught here in vs:25 is propitiation.

Definition:  Propitiation is the accomplishment of Christ [His death] whereby the demands of God's righteousness are satisfied.

 

 

 

 

 

What's inside the ark?  Just under the mercy seat.