Jeff Durbin: The Great Exchange - My Sin For His Righteousness 

Only He brings about true repentance

All my favorites! Alastair Begg, Conrad Mbewe, Nate Pickowicz, Joel Beeke & Sinclair Ferguson, too!

These are among my favorite teachers as well. The word of God is strong and powerful and these men have not watered it down.

He came for the sick not the well.

A lot of just regular believers reject simply b/c they don't have anyone to explain it to them. It comes off as sounding haughty, prideful etc. Remember when you first heard it???? Someone needs to show them the scripture verses that speak of Righteousness in Christ. Don't leave it up to the pastor. Come alongside and help a brother or sister.

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"Also where are you getting the "rehearsal" language you are using of Leviticus 16?" It's very helpful to read Hebrews alongside Leviticus. (I wish I had done that years ago!) All of the Old Testament, but especially the sacrificial system, was to point people to Christ.

@Yesica1993 but what does that have to do with rehearsal? I'm fairly familiar with Hebrews and don't remember "rehearsal" appearing there either. In fact, Hebrews makes clear that Christ's role is different than that of the Levitical Priests (Heb 8:4 and 7:13-14). He is a priest of a more ancient order (Psalm 110:4, Heb 7:17).

Not future tense at all...but upon faith. Paul's argument includes that Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. SEE Rom chap 4. Also every year they had to sacrifice a lamb by which they were good to go--but only for 1 year. Then another sacrifice. Hebrews points out that Christ is the ONE sacrifice for ALL time! There is a future tense when we will be completely free from sin, temptation etc. in the next life. Until then, we must accept God's imputation/view of us as righteous. Christ's blood was shed for sins...His body for the crucifixion of the "flesh". Paul wrote again "I was crucified with Christ and yet I live...not I but Christ who lives in me." When you are born again, a "new" man really was birthed and born of the Spirit, not of the world/Adam nature.

​@@kristenspencer9751 Paul, in Romans 5:19, parallels "many were appointed sinners" (aorist) and "many will be appointed righteous" (future). This is on the basis of Adam's disobedience and Christ's obedience respectively. At the time Paul wrote this, both bases were already in the past. In other words, Adam had already disobeyed and Christ had already been obedient unto death. Yet Paul makes a distinction between the results temporally. The result of Adam's disobedience is indicated to be past but with a lingering effect through the use of the aorist tense. The text indicates that this specific result of Christ's obedience, however, is yet future. If you say, "Not future tense at all," it seems to me you aren't dealing with the text as we have it. When you say "There a future tense when we will be completely free from sin...", where do you learn this and how can you be certain that Paul is not talking about this state, the one you readily admit is future truth, here?

A text out context is a pretext! If GOD is a perfect and holy GOD, then that means by nature, HE is perfect in every way. HE is perfect in love, perfect in mercy, perfect in grace, perfect in justice, and perfect in wrath! The wages of sin is death! Sinners deserve death, and death is justice! But GOD took our just punishment upon HIMSELF when HE hung on the cross and bore the weight of our sin, so that we might live! Justice was served!! And salvation for those who belief was imparted…once and for all! So while repentance is a natural result of demonstrating one’s true belief and walking in truth, it’s our belief in the righteousness of Christ that saves, not repentance!

@@tinawantland398 And yet penal substitution was never taught by Jesus who only rarely spoke even of his own death and preached repentence. If penal substitution was so important, then why did Peter neglect to mention it in Acts 2 and instead also only preached repentance? (Acts 2:38) Yes God is holy but that doesn't mean that He cannot simply forgive as He always has (2 Chr. 7:14). Or was God misleading His people because really He was still harbouring unforgiveness which would be unleashed onto an innocent victim on the cross in the future? Should we have a similar attitude to 'forgiveness' and also need to punish others?

@@vaulteddome there is no other substitute for our just punishment except CHRIST! HE was/is the perfect unblemished Lamb of GOD. That is why HIS last words were “It is finished”! It is sheer arrogance to believe anyone else is worthy of standing in our place, for only GOD is good; everyone one else is guilty! It not only is the once and for all punishment, but it is also the demonstration of AMAZING love, AMAZING, grace, when one who was without sin, willingness paid the price! If you don’t believe that, then full repentance will never take place. JESUS IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE! No one comes to THE FATHER, except through HIM, because GOD is holy, and HIS standard is holy perfection, which only Christ obtained, in that HE never sinned!! And FYI , Jesus did speak of the fact that HE is THE ONE, of whom the prophets spoke! THE ONE by who’s stripes we are healed! It is a free gift, one that cannot be obtained, only given! Repentance is an act of obedience, but it cannot, and does not save!! It’s by grace we are saved, not works, less any man should boast!

@@tinawantland398 I agree that Jesus was the unblemished Lamb of GOD, but God did not kill Jesus as an act of punishment intended for us. The animals in Leviticus were offered as a sin-offering to an already forgiving God as an act of worship. The sin-offerings could be as simple as grain. The value was in giving something of value and not in inflicting punishment. To punish the innocent in place of the wicked was prohibited under Toral Law (Exod. 23:7) and something that the Pagan nations participated in to appease their angry deities. You're right, God is amazing and he has promised to forgive us when we repent with a contrite heart. This is the heart of Jesus' message. We are to follow the words and actions of Jesus as the way, truth and life. We are healed by Jesus' stripes because the sin-offering of his death is meant to bring us to repentance and redeem us from the power of sin (not from an angry God). Yes, forgiveness is a free gift and not based on works.

@@tinawantland398 Amen!

HELLO!! Jeff is as much a SINBER, as any other man/woman. Have you NOT been listening. The difference, is that ge realizes this, believes in JESUS CHRIST, and has asked for forgiveness; none of us.. is sinless.

Jesus alone is perfect. Did you even watch this?!