Only believe in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.
Yet the young artist must keep in mind that the painter's greatness consists not in his taking, but in his atoning for them.
The Sacrifice will remain, the atoning Blood for the remission of guilt, the altar will remain as well as the pulpit, the priest as well as the teacher, sacrifice as well as instruction.
Ever throughout the year, the atoning Blood will be pleaded with the Father for the pardon of the sins of the people.
Besides, the Temple service would be invested with atoning power, and Paradise and hell were intended to do duty as reward and punishment.
His mourning companions raised over the spot a cross, the touching emblem of the great atoning sacrifice for sin.
They readily accepted his teaching of God; and apparently comprehended, without any difficulty, the plan of salvation through an atoning Saviour.
With the rest he labored to root out all the remnants of their degrading superstitions, and to give them correct ideas of salvation through repentance, amendment, and trust in an atoning Saviour.
Then, taking the crucifix, which he ever wore around his neck, he placed it in the hands of one of them, requesting him to hold that emblem of the atoning sacrifice of his Saviour before his eyes until the last moment.
As the cross was raised, Father Membré made some attempt to teach them the significance of this emblem of the way of salvation through faith in an atoning Saviour.
The act was witnessed by our party with a roar of laughter; and the astounded Shaykh was warned that he had become subject to an atoning sacrifice.
As regards hisatoning death, his reconciling sufferings, the same thing is true.
If the modern doctrine of Orthodoxy be true, that in order to be saved it is necessary not only to repent, but also to believe in the atoning sacrifice, the Jews were fatally misled by this teaching of the prophet.
Many persons are quite comforted if one who has led an immoral life says on his death-bed that he “trusts in the atoning blood of Christ.
But not so with the doctrine of Christ’s reconciling and atoning work.
Here we have the full description of what His atoning work meant.
That new and intimate relationship brought about by His atoning death at the cross is mentioned first.
They stand in the righteousness of Christ, and so will all who truly come to Him and trust only in His atoning sacrifice.
Just as the Old Law sacrifices were anticipatory showings forth of the One Atoning Death which was to be, so this Communion is a memorial, or commemorative showing forth, of the One Atoning Death which has been.
Next he insisted on the all-atoning efficacy of the blood of Jesus, and his righteousness, for our justification.
Lord, we adore thy ways To bring us near to God, Thy sovereign power, thy healing grace, And thine atoning blood.
Our guilty souls are drown'd in tears Till his atoning blood appears, Then we awake from deep distress, And sing, "The Lord our Righteousness.
Well, the Redeemer's gone T' appear before our God, To sprinkle o'er the flaming throne With his atoning blood.
It offers you peace, and pardon, and sanctification, and eternal life, through the atoning sacrifice of the blessed Redeemer.
It was only when he had found Christ, and realized that his sins had been taken away through the atoning work of the Son of God, that he found peace.
But while we thus find in the Son of God and in His atoning work the foundation of the faith of our Church, many obstacles had been placed in the way of securing this redemption.
Above all the Servant of Yahweh[12] appears as atoning for sinners by his sufferings and death.
Towards man, the death of Christ hasatoning efficacy because it delivers from sin, bestows the divine gift of life and conveys the assurance of pardon.
The ministry of the Savior among the dead doubtless included the revelation of His ownatoning death, the inculcation of faith in Himself and in the divinely-appointed plan He represented, and the necessity of a repentance acceptable unto God.
The supreme sacrifice involved {80} in the atoning death of Christ was as truly appointed and fore-ordained.
It is a break in the hurrying whirl of this life's interests, to consider the solemn issues of eternity, and that atoning love which is mighty to save all who by repentance and faith accept its terms of mercy.
As sinners in the sight of God, you need the atoning blood of the Redeemer; you need repentance and faith in that blood.
