AtonementA great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is to enter into it.
Dwight Lyman Moody (1837–1899)
He left his Father’s throne above,
So free, so infinite his grace!
Emptied himself of all but love,
And bled for Adam’s helpless race.
Charles Wesley (1707–1788)
The Old Testament Hebrew word that we translate atonement means literally “to cover up.” The animal sacrifices were intended to “cover” a man’s sins. In the New Testament, however; the meaning of atoning sacrifice is conveyed by the word expiate, which means “to put away.” The blood that Jesus shed in our behalf on the cross at Calvary does not merely cover up our sin, it puts away our sin as though it had never been committed.
T. W. WilsonWhen Jesus Christ shed his blood on the cross, it was not the blood of a martyr; or the blood of one man for another; it was the life of God poured out to redeem the world.
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)
When we are filled with the Holy Spirit, he unites us body, soul, and spirit with God until we are one with God even as Jesus was. This is the meaning of the Atonement—at-one-ment with God.
Oswald Chambers (1874–1917)
