We celebrate the Advent season at Sovereign Joy. This is something that I had not done in previous churches that I have attended. Hopefully this will become a rich tradition in our church that we all look forward to with great expectation and joy.
Well as I am preparing to preach on Jesus as our Priest I find myself reading Calvin. He had been the first (I believe) to articulate the Prophet, Priest, King distinction of Jesus' ministry for us. So naturally I would look to him for some insight. Here is just one of many quotes that I could give on this subject. May your faith be strengthened by these words.
"It was no ordinary example of incomparable love toward us to struggle with dire terrors, and amid fearful tortures to cast away all care of himself that he might provide for us. We must bear in mind, that Christ could not duly propitiate God without renouncing his own feelings, and subjecting himself entirely to his Father's will. ..Thus, as trembling consciences find no rest without sacrifice and ablution by which sins are expiated, we are properly directed tither, the source of our life being placed in the death of Christ...Our acquittal is in this-that the guilt which made us liable to punishment was transferred to the head of the Son of God. We must specially remember this substitution in order that we may not be all our lives in trepidation and anxiety, as if the just vengeance, which the Son of God transferred to himself, were still impending over us." Book 2 Chapter 16
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