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Words Defined - Part 1

2/26/2017

Teacher: Rusty Kennedy
Series: Words Defined

Rusty's Notes

Atonement
- Old Testament The word “atonement” occurs nearly one hundred times in the Old Testament, usually rendered “make an atonement” (cf. Lev. 16:20, “atone”). kpr “cover” and Akk. kapāru “spread over,” “wipe off” Given the context at Gen. 32:20, Heb. kpr can most directly be translated “cover” (RSV, KJV “appease”; JB “conciliate”; NIV “pacify”; cf. Prov. 16:6, 14) or “to blot out” guilt (cf. Isa. 6:7).
- The New Testament retains the Old Testament meaning of atone (ment), though it uses the word specifically only once, at Rom. 5:11
Forgiveness
- One of the constituent parts of justification. In pardoning sin, God absolves the sinner from the condemnation of the law, and that on account of the work of Christ, i.e., he removes the guilt of sin, or the sinner’s actual liability to eternal wrath on account of it. All sins are forgiven freely (Acts 5:31; 13:38; 1 John 1:6–9). The sinner is by this act of grace forever freed from the guilt and penalty of his sins. This is the peculiar prerogative of God (Ps. 130:4; Mark 2:5). It is offered to all in the gospel.[1]
Faith
- Human belief in and reliance upon the divine.
- Old Testament It is said of Abraham, the first patriarch, that he believed God (Gen. 15:6), and that God “reckoned it to him as righteousness.”
- In the New Testament, however, the focus is not so much on God’s providential care as manifest in various historical events (e.g., the Exodus, the return from exile) as on the coming of his son Jesus Christ, who would establish the kingdom of God.
Abide
- John 15:6 (HCSB) - 6 If anyone does not remain in Me, he is thrown aside like a branch and he withers. They gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.[2]
- John 15:6 (NASB) - “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned.[3]
- John 6:37 - 37 Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.[4]
- John 10:27-30 - 27 My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish —ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. 30 The Father and I are one.”[5]