5 THEOLOGICAL WORDS EVERY CHRISTIAN SHOULD KNOW...EXPLAINED!

so have you ever been in a conversation with someone and they're using these big theological words that are literally just going over your head and you're shaking your head like you know what they mean because you're too embarrassed to ask them what these words mean or maybe you're listening to your pastor and your pastor is using these big words or you're at a Bible study and you're like man as a Christian I know that I should know what these words mean but I just don't know what they mean and I've never really taken the time to ask someone what these words mean well today I'm gonna take five theological words all of which involve this concept of salvation and what God has done for us and define these words so you'll know exactly what they mean the next time you hear them that's coming up today on the beat hey my friend welcome back to the beat my name is Alan Parr thank you so much for tuning in if this is your first time here it's a pleasure if you want a free ebook click the link in the description box below if you enjoy this video consider subscribing hit that little Bell notifications so you won't miss a beat okay so my job today is to take you to seminary and teach you a little theology now I know what you're thinking you're like man that's just head knowledge but trust me the more you understand these terms the better you'll understand what exactly God did for you and I on the cross so this is not just an exercise in terms of our intellectual but rather us appreciating what God has done for us so here are the five theological words involving salvation number one is the word justification you know the Bible says in Romans chapter 5 verse 1 therefore since we have been justified through faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ but what exactly does that word justified even mean well the word actually means to declare someone as being not guilty and so I want you to think about for a second let's say you did a whole bunch of crimes you've got a whole bunch of unpaid parking tickets you've got all sorts of debt that you haven't paid off you've got all this stuff that you've done and when you show up in court the judge puts his gavel down and he just claire's you to be not guilty even though you and your heart know that you really are my friend that's exactly what God did for us through salvation he saw all of our guilt and all of our sin and all the negative things that we've done that we haven't told anybody and instead of seeing you as guilty and declaring you as what you should be he stamped the gavel and he said you know what I am gonna say today and declare that Allan Parr is not guilty that alone is enough to praise God number two is a huge one and that is the word substitutionary atonement and perhaps the clearest verse in the New Testament that describes this is 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 verse 21 which says God made him speaking of Jesus who had no sin to be sin for us so that in him we might become the righteousness of God now I'm gonna take my time on this one because this one is so important let's break it down first of all the word atonement comes from this idea of to cover something or to cover and so whenever we talk about this idea of atonement it's the idea or the process where God covers our sins so that he doesn't see those sins anymore but he sees the righteousness of God so now when we took talk about this idea of substitutionary that is the idea that there is someone else that took our place as a substitute even though we deserved it so let me break it down in a way that maybe all of us can get it let's say once again you committed murder you murdered somebody and you know that because of that you deserve capital punishment you deserve for your life to be taken away you're on death row and let's say somebody comes along and gets you out of prison and says hey you know what I know you were the one that committed the murder but instead I am going to finish your sentence I'm actually going to take the punishment and I'm gonna die the electric chair or whatever it is I'm gonna die in your place so that you can go free my friend that is the picture of substitutionary atonement he came into the game and substituted himself in for us so that we can go and so this concept of substitutionary atonement is not something that was started with christ it's something that goes all the way back to the very first sin in the Bible if you recall in Genesis chapter 3 when Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden fruit they tried to cover themselves there's that word again with fig leaves but God came along later on in Genesis 3 chapter 3 in verse 21 and said you know what your fig leaves your ability to try to cover yourself your attempt to do that is not good enough I have to cover you and so he took an innocent animal and took the skins from that animal and used those skins to cover Adam and Eve and so this idea many theologians believe that this was the very first blood sacrifice in the Bible because God had to get those skins from somewhere so more than likely he got them from an innocent animal but this was also further developed as God unveiled his sacrificial system through Moses so that as they offered these animals as a substitute for their own sins even though they were guilty God's God was a they were atoning if you will for their sins through the sacrifice of an innocent animal and my friend that's exactly what Christ did for us on the cross as a matter of fact scholars refer to this as the scarlet thread of redemption scarlet being the color of blood and thread is the idea that this idea of blood sacrifice is thread or woven throughout the entire fabric of Scripture and it is the process by which God redeemed us which leads us to the third theological word that we're going to define today which is the word Redemption and the idea of redemption simply means or carries the idea that God purchased us off of the slave market of sin so I want you to think of this analogy let's say that you are a slave and you are on a plantation you have no hope of aspiring to anything other than being a slave you have no rights you don't have any of those things and someone comes along and pays the price so that you would not become their slave but you can go free and live a normal life would that not be something that you would be thankful for wouldn't you praise that person wouldn't you be thankful for that person my friend that's the other that's another picture of what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross he redeemed us from the slave market of sense that we don't have to be a slave to our flesh we don't have to be a slave to our sinful passions we now have the Spirit of God alive in us in abling us to be free to serve God and ultimately be a slave to God now this verse actually comes from Ephesians chapter one verse seven although there are many verses and it says in him we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins okay the fourth word is the word propitiation and this is a word that you may hear thrown around back and forth in theological circles but it primarily comes from first John chapter 2 verses 1 and 2 and I'm gonna read it for you it says my little children these things I write to you so that you may not sin John says my goal is that you don't sin but if anyone does sin we have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous and he himself is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the whole world now this word propitiation comes from the idea of being satisfied or something that you would offer to a God to appease them or to satisfy them and so the idea here is that Jesus's blood on the cross appeased God the Father or satisfied him satisfied him from what because God is holy and he's also loving whenever we sin he can't just look past it and not do anything about it so his holiness every time we sin is being offended every time we sin his wrath is being stored up against us and so what needs to happen is he needs to be satisfied so that he does not take his wrath out on us and so what did he do he took his wrath out on his son Jesus Christ on the cross so that whenever he sees you and I he is he is satisfied he is appeased he's not angry with us anymore he doesn't look at us and with a sense of anger now he is able to operate with us and deal with us from a place of love and a forgiveness because his wrath has been appeased it has been satisfied because he took it all out on his son Jesus Christ that's the word propitiation and the fifth and final word is the word regeneration and essentially this is the word that kind of brings it all together in terms of what God really did for us in terms of our salvation I'm gonna read in a passage of Scripture for you in Titus chapter 3 verses 4 through 7 and it says but when the kindness and the love of God our Savior toward man appeared not by works of righteousness which we have done Titus says there's nothing righteous that we've done to earn our salvation he says but according to his mercy he saved us thank you Jesus for your mercy through the washing of here it is regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit whom he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior that having been here's another word justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life and essentially this word regeneration basically refers to the act of God making us into a new creature giving us new birth giving us a new life a new heart a new spirit and so we are not the old person that we were born into I say from our parents we have become a new creation as a matter of fact the Bible says therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation old things have passed away behold all things have become new so next time you hear that word regeneration that just simply refers to the process or the act if I will of God making us into a new creature by the new birth and giving us the power of the Holy Spirit so my friend if you found this helpful let me know I'll do some more videos defining some more theological words in other categories other than salvation like bibley all of the Bible or eschatology the study of endtime events or angel ology demonology I'll do some more videos along the lines of theology so that we're not just feeling good with this channel we're not just getting stuff that's gonna make us feel good but we can hold on to some of these truths for a lifetime if you found this video helpful in any way feel free to share it with a friend also if you haven't done so already I would love it if you would subscribe check out some of the other videos on this channel thank you so much for watching I'll see you next time on the beat

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Length: 11min 50sec (710 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 04 2020