SCIENCE of SALVATION

--Intro

--The Inverse Relationship of the Cross

--Point of the Mission

--SIMPLIFYING the Old / New  [Everlasting Covenant]

--The Altar

--Zig Zagging through the Plan of Redemption {SANCTUARY} on the Cross

--The PRICE

--SUMMARY

--Post Script---a TEXT MESSAGE from God

Intro

"Christ came to teach human beings

what God desires them to know.

Christ crucified for our sins,

Christ risen from the dead,

Christ ascended on high,

is the science of salvation that we are to learn and to teach."

E.G.W.

The Inverse Relationship of the Cross

"Christ was treated as we deserve, 

that we might be treated as He deserves." 

E.G.W.

Point of the Mission

* Point of Christ's Mission:

1) To Live a Life WITHOUT Sin
2) So He could Die for OUR Sins
* Point of the Cross:
---God's Physical Laws are tightly wound and any deviation results

in destruction (such as the nuclear force that holds atoms together-if it was off a fraction either way we wouldn't have carbon required for life)
---God's Moral Law is also tightly wound. When we deviate it's called Sin (we too are destroyed by death)
---Hence, the Point of the Cross -- to make an exception.
* Gospel Simplified:
--For God so loved the world,
--He gave His only begotten Son,
--that whosoever believeth in Him
--should not perish,
--but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
* Gospel Summarized:
--Christ Lived the Life we should Live
--Christ Died the Death we should Die
--Hence, weaving a perfect Robe of Righteousness for us

For I am persuaded,

that neither death, nor life,

nor angels, nor principalities,

nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth,

nor any other creature,

shall be able to separate us from the love of God,

which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:38,39

"The way for man's return to God and heaven has no barriers. The matchless depths of the Savior's love have been demonstrated; and if this manifestation of God's love for the children of men does not prevail to draw men to Himself, there is nothing that ever will."

E.G.W.

SIMPLIFYING the Old / New 

[Everlasting Covenant]

For if that first covenant had been faultless,

then should no place have been sought for the second.

Hebrews 8:7

1. The Everlasting Covenant consists the same Covenant (whether "Old" or "New").
1a) The Old Covenant involved 

--the blood of animals, 

  --was written on Tables of Stone 

    --and carried out in the earthly Sanctuary.
1b) The New Covenant involves 

--the blood of the Lamb of God, 

  --is written on the flesh of your heart, 

    --and is carried out in the Heavenly Sanctuary.

*He shows you in the Sanctuary - Become Justified (Outer Court), then pass through Sanctification (Inner Court) to be prepared for your Judgment Day (Most Holy Place).

(Justification [Grace/Forgiveness])
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, (Old)
but by His own blood (New)

He entered in once into the holy place, 

having obtained eternal redemption for us.
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

How much more shall the blood of Christ,

who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself

without spot to God....

(Sanctification [Holiness/Obedience])
For this is the covenant that I will make .....
I will put my laws into their mind,
and write them in their hearts:
and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
....written not with ink (Old)

but by the Spirit of the living God, (New)

not on tablets of stone

but on tablets of flesh,

that is, of the heart.

(The Judgment [Removal/Cleansing of sin])

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: (Old)
But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come,

by a greater and more perfect tabernacle,

not made with hands.... (New)

Hebrews 8:10 /2 Corinthians 3:3/Hebrews 8:5/9:12-14,11

--The Old was SYMBOLIC--

--The New is REALITY--

--The Precepts are the SAME--

Jesus Christ the same yesterday,

and to day,

and for ever.

Hebrews 13:8

The Altar

"Christ hung upon a cross;
He was not offered in a temple.

He was offered before the eyes of God,

and there He still abides.

The cross is an altar in a spiritual sense.
The material cross was indeed visible,
but none knew it as Christ’s altar.

Again,

--His prayer,

--His sprinkled blood,

--His burnt incense...."

Martin Luther

Zig Zagging through the Plan of Redemption {SANCTUARY} on the Cross

Christ walked into the outer court to the Altar of Sacrifice (that was for the Forgiveness of sins) and said Father Forgive Them.

He then proceeded to the Brazen Laver (representing Baptism) and said Today thou shalt be with Me in paradise, as He was about go through the Baptism of Death.

He then entered the inner court and went to the Table of Bread (that contained the cups for the drink offering) and said I thirst.

He then crossed over to the light of the 7 Branch Candlestick and said Woman,

Behold Thy Son.

He then went to the Altar of Incense (representing the Prayers of God's people) and communed with the Father -- My God, My God, Why hast Thou Forsaken Me?

He then entered the Most Holy Place and approached the Ark of the Covenant (where the Law of God was placed -- the Law that requires complete submission) and uttered a Prayer of total submission Father into Thy Hands I commit My spirit.

Finally, He climbed up on the Judgment Seat and gave a decree while wearing a Crown of Thorns -- It Is Finished.

Then He bowed His head and died 

the death of a man for mankind.

The PRICE

And from Jesus Christ,

...the first begotten of the dead...

Unto Him that loved us,
and washed us from our sins

in His own blood.
But He was wounded
for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace
was upon Him;
and with His stripes we are healed.

For ye are bought with a price:

Revelation 1:5/Isaiah 53:5/1 Corinthians 6:20

SUMMARY

"His own nation rejected Him;
His own religion crucified Him;
and thus He presented Himself, 

the willing victim of our sins,
to be rent in soul,
man­gled in flesh,
broken in heart,
that He might show us the Father,
and lead us back to our Father's house."
The Larger Christ, by George D. Herron, p. 60

Post Script---a TEXT MESSAGE from God

God's Text Message to YOU:

Beloved,

I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper
(personal wellbeing)
and be in health,
(physical wellbeing)
even as thy soul prospereth.
(spiritual wellbeing)

--I have no greater joy--

than to hear that my children walk in truth.
But I trust I shall shortly see thee,
and we shall speak face to face.

3 John 1:2,4,14