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When our hero Jesus died to atone for sin and resurrected Himself, He did not defeat only the Devil.[1. Photo by Michael Förtsch on Unsplash.] He did this to “deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery,” says the author of Hebrews. Jesus our hero is “a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.” He saves us from our own villainy!

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Concession stand

• This is part of our series He Saves Us, about the foes Jesus defeats.
• These include not just human villainy (today) but Satan and suffering.
• At different times of your life, you may resonate with one or the other.
• Maybe you feel spiritual attack, or the thorns and thistles of suffering.
• Yet at all times we feel our fight against sin from which He saves us.
• Finally, many Christians re. salvation put on their “evangelism” filter.
• But this episode isn’t mainly for the nonbelievers. It’s a family review.
• That’s why we use initials like “PSA,” for penal substitutionary atonement.

Quotes and notes

The penal substitutionary view of the atonement holds that the most fundamental event of the atonement is that Jesus Christ took the full punishment that we deserved for our sins as a substitute in our place, and that all other benefits or results of the atonement find their anchor in this truth.[1. “Substutionary Atonement,” Thomas Schreiner, undated essay at The Gospel Coalition.]

[Jesus speaking] “For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”

John 10:17–18

Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.

Romans 2:1–5

For surely it is not angels that [Jesus] helps,