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The
Atonement
The
atonement of Christ covers sin in both forms. Under the
law men could not attain to perfection in the sense of
being freed from all sin. Heb. 10:1, 2; Eccl. 7:20. A
remembrance of sins was made once every year. Heb. 10:3,
4. The high priest took the blood of bulls and of goats
and offered it for himself and for the errors of the
people. Heb. 9:7, 12, 13. "The way into the holiest
of all [entire sanctification] was not yet made
manifest." —Heb. 9:8. They were only sanctified
"to the purifying of the flesh."—Heb. 9:13.
"These all, having obtained a good report through
faith, received not the promise: God having provided some
better thing for us."—Heb. 11 :39, 40. "For
the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a
better hope [Christ] did."—Heb. 7:19.
A Savior was
promised to the world, to deliver men from sin. Isa.
19:20. All people were commanded to look unto him and be
saved. Isa. 45:22. He came. Luke 2 :8-14. He is
"Christ the Lord," the "Son of God."
"What the law could not do, in that it was weak
through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness
of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the
flesh."—Rom. 8:3. "But now once in the end of
the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the
sacrifice of himself."—Heb. 9:26. "He tasted
death for every man."—Heb. 2:9. By the shedding of
his own blood he "obtained eternal redemption for
us."—Heb. 9:12. 1 Pet. 1 :18, 19. Thus a fountain
was opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem for sin—actual transgression—and for
uncleanness—inherited sin. Zech. 13:1.
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