Monday | 09 November 2026
To properly comprehend the work of propitiation, we need to consider the nature of Christ’s offering. The offering of Christ was not self‑centred. It was first love, revealed. Christ’s expression of love involved emptying to an endpoint, by the capacity of seven Spirits from the Holy Spirit, to reveal the Father and a multitude of sons. Php 2:5‑7.
Because we were enemies of God on account of our disobedience and sin, Christ’s offering was an accountable response to the judgement of God. To this end, Christ ‘gave Himself a ransom for all’. 1Ti 2:6. It is important to recognise that the ransom price was not paid to anyone. This ransom was first the cost to God of Christ becoming a curse for us. It was then the cost of shedding His blood for the purpose of our redemption.
The next dimension of Christ’s offering was a suffering response as a propitiation. That is, He was set forth as a mercy seat. Rom 3:25. Christ suffered the full judgement and punishment necessary for the destruction of sin and Satan. He became the embodiment of sin when the Father made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us. 2Co 5:21. Significantly, when He was nailed to the cross, Christ became a curse for us. Gal 3:13. The curse of God is death. In this regard, when He was crucified as the embodiment of sin, sin was put to death! We see that the death of sin was accomplished in Christ.
At the same time, the death that Christ died, He died to sin. Rom 6:10. As He died to sin, death had no hold upon Him. He was brought back from the dead by the life that was in His blood. Rom 6:10. Heb 13:20. Resurrection life was brought forth by the shedding of His blood through suffering. Resurrection life is more than eternal life. It is the blessing of God that supersedes the curse of judgement. It opens the door of mercy, which then rejoices, or triumphs, over judgement. Jas 2:13.
Further Study:
Php 2:5-7
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
1Ti 2:6
Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
Rom 3:25
Whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance, God had passed over the sins that were previously committed.
2Co 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
Gal 3:13
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree’).
Rom 6:10
For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God.
Heb 13:20
Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the Everlasting Covenant.
Jas 2:13
For judgement is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement.
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To properly comprehend the work of propitiation, we need to consider the nature of Christ’s offering. The offering of Christ was not self‑centred. It was first love, revealed. Christ’s expression of love involved emptying to an endpoint, by the capacity of seven Spirits from the Holy Spirit, to reveal the Father and a multitude of sons. Php 2:5‑7.
Because we were enemies of God on account of our disobedience and sin, Christ’s offering was an accountable response to the judgement of God. To this end, Christ ‘gave Himself a ransom for all’. 1Ti 2:6. It is important to recognise that the ransom price was not paid to anyone. This ransom was first the cost to God of Christ becoming a curse for us. It was then the cost of shedding His blood for the purpose of our redemption.
The next dimension of Christ’s offering was a suffering response as a propitiation. That is, He was set forth as a mercy seat. Rom 3:25. Christ suffered the full judgement and punishment necessary for the destruction of sin and Satan. He became the embodiment of sin when the Father made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us. 2Co 5:21. Significantly, when He was nailed to the cross, Christ became a curse for us. Gal 3:13. The curse of God is death. In this regard, when He was crucified as the embodiment of sin, sin was put to death! We see that the death of sin was accomplished in Christ.
At the same time, the death that Christ died, He died to sin. Rom 6:10. As He died to sin, death had no hold upon Him. He was brought back from the dead by the life that was in His blood. Rom 6:10. Heb 13:20. Resurrection life was brought forth by the shedding of His blood through suffering. Resurrection life is more than eternal life. It is the blessing of God that supersedes the curse of judgement. It opens the door of mercy, which then rejoices, or triumphs, over judgement. Jas 2:13.