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- EDWARDS, JONATHAN 1703-1758
"Christ Exalted"
"Our Lord Jesus Christ in the work of redemption gloriously appears above all evil."
- MacARTHUR, JOHN F.
1939
"The Promise Of Redemption" - Genesis Origins Series
Sermon 1 of 2
Sermon 2 of 2
"What you have here in this amazing little section is the introduction of salvation, the introduction
of redemption. And this is literally pregnant with meaning. Here is the true 'proto evangelium.'
Here is the first gospel. Here is the first promise of the gospel unfolded, the plan of salvation, the
plan of redemption. I can't resist saying again, as I often consider that here again, with very few
words, with an amazing economy of words, God has said all that needs to be said about the vast
reality of salvation. Here in this text are given the necessary components for salvation. Here is the
theology of redemption from man's side and from God's side. For here in the verses that I just
read to you, five brief verses: From man's side, faith and repentance are introduced. And from
God's side, atonement and security are introduced. And that, essentially, sums up salvation. Man
believes with a penitent heart, and God provides atonement and secures the believing sinner for
eternity. That is the sum of the plan. What is required of the man or the woman is to repent and
believe. What is required of God is to provide atonement and secure the sinner. And it's all here.
The salvation of sinners, their deliverance, their rescue from sin, has always been by faith and
repentance through atonement and the power of God to secure us unto eternal life."
- WATSON, THOMAS 1620-1686
"Christ The Redeemer"
"The thing implied is that Jesus Christ is the glorious purchaser of our redemption. The doctrine
of redemption by Jesus Christ is a glorious doctrine; it is the marrow and quintessence of the
gospel, in which all a Christian's comfort lies. Great was the work of creation, but greater the
work of redemption; it cost more to redeem us than to make us; in the one there was but the
speaking of a word, in the other the shedding of blood."
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