Propitiation – Jesus Bore Our Punishment

1 John 4:10-11
10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

The third area of our redemption that Jesus completed for us is in the work of propitiation. This is one of the areas that satan lies to believers the most, convincing them that God is mad at them and must be punishing them. Many Christians do not understand this redeeming work of propitiation. It means to satisfy the wrath of God by taking the punishment we deserved because of sin. When Jesus bore our sin, He also bore the punishment for our sin.

Because of the sin of Adam in the garden, punishment for that sin had to come. But Jesus was the One who took our punishment. He satisfied the wrath of God toward sin as Isaiah 53:5 tells us that He was wounded for our rebellious acts, and He was punished so that we could have peace with God. Jesus has become our Advocate with the Father, who is the propitiation for our sin, taking our punishment. When we sin, we may reap bad consequences for sowing to the flesh, but God is not punishing us.

As it states in the verses above, Jesus proved God’s love for us by bearing our punishment, and if God so loved us, we should love one another in the same way. Simply put, we should not punish people for the wrong they do as a believer, and this includes ourselves. We lose our true worth in God when we feel we deserved to be punished for the wrong we have done. We should receive correction, but punishment comes from anger, correction comes from love. God’s wrath (anger) was satisfied by the work of propitiation. God is not angry with us. Because of His love He will correct us by revealing the wrong we have done, but don’t punish yourself or others. Run to the One who loves you.

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