The Doctrine of Precise Atonement, Half 2 (Chosen Scriptures) [Audio Only] – John MacArthur
“These of you who’ve been with us know we’re tackling a number of the tougher and profound and troublesome doctrines within the Scripture. And I belief we’re having an exquisite time digging deeply into God’s treasured fact.
Final Sunday night time we started to have a look at the topic, “For whom did Christ die?” Or, “The Nature of the Atonement.” Or as I selected to name it, “The Doctrine of Precise Atonement.” And I need to return to that. For those who weren’t right here final week, it actually could be useful so that you can get the tape or the CD, no matter is finest for you, and to take heed to what I mentioned and pair it up with what we’re going to say tonight since you’re going to get only a very abbreviated evaluation of that necessary basis.
These doctrines problem us. They problem us as a result of even once we perceive them the very best we are able to from a biblical viewpoint, there may be nonetheless loads left over. There’s nonetheless the inscrutable actuality of the incomprehensible thoughts of God. And there are all the time going to be issues that simply don’t fairly resolve fully to us. Each doctrinal symphony is, in some methods, an unfinished symphony. Each main doctrine of the Scripture ends in an unresolved chord as a result of we, in our finite minds, can’t, ultimately, absolutely grasp the infinity of God’s thoughts. However we do the very best we are able to and we depart the remaining to Him. And so, ultimately we entrust to Him what we don’t perceive and embrace with all our hearts what we do…” from the Transcript