… be saved.
3. The objects of redemption are the same as those for whom Christ is a Surety
Christ is the Surety of a better covenant, commonly called the covenant of grace. This suretyship is the grounds and foundation of redemption and in His engagement of it, Christ bore the sin and punishment of His people to redeem them from the hands of justice. He, however, was not obliged to redeem those for who He was not a Surety. Christ is not the Surety of every man but …
Posts Tagged Surety
For Whom did Christ Die?
Oct 5
The Dumbing Down of Doctrine
Aug 17
… for sound evangelism is the dumbing down of language that goes with it. Terms like propitiation, surety, imputation, depravity, sanctification, justification and vicarious substitution are being done away with at breath-taking speed with no attempt to use understandable synonyms in their place. How can one preach redemption in Christ if one has blindly and dogmatically thrown overboard the very language that helps to save people? With the language goes the concept and, again, in matters of …
The Atonement
Aug 17
… Christ, receive in the new birth a sinless righteousness which is not their own and which is the surety of eternal life. Obviously then, a believer, though living under the burden of Adam’s imputed sin and his own flesh, also lives in the blessings of Christ’s imputed righteousness at the same time. The war between flesh and Spirit will continue until our corrupt nature in Adam dies and we are fitted out with a new resurrection body which is incapable of sin as is our new spiritual life …
