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The Doctrine of Actual Atonement, Part 1 (Selected Scriptures) [Audio Only] - John MacArthur
"Well, how many of you have always wanted to go to seminary? You’re about to go tonight. I’m going to challenge your thinking a little bit as we talk about this issue of the question, for whom did Christ die? We have been looking over the last number of weeks at some very important doctrines: The doctrine of perseverance, or the preservation of the saints; the doctrine of sovereign election in salvation. We have looked at the doctrine of total or absolute inability, that is the depravity of the sinner which renders it impossible for him to respond to the gospel. And tonight I want to talk to you about what I’ve chosen to call, trying to give it a more accurate name, the “doctrine of actual atonement.” The doctrine of actual atonement.
Now, you need to understand that these doctrines we’re talking about are at the very heart and soul of our theology. They are the very doctrines that were dealt with in the great Reformation and rescued out of the darkness of Roman Catholicism. Now it may seem obvious to most Christians for whom Christ died, but it is because we tend to take things at a rather superficial level and not think about them deeply, and thus we miss the very essence of some of these glorious truths that we need to dig a little more deeply. And I’m going to try to do that tonight, and obviously the preliminaries took a long time and rightly so, those were wonderful testimonies and a great time of singing..." from the Transcript
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