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The Doctrine of Actual Atonement, Part 2 (Selected Scriptures) [Audio Only] - John MacArthur
"Those of you who have been with us know we are tackling some of the more challenging and profound and difficult doctrines in the Scripture. And I trust we’re having a wonderful time digging deeply into God’s precious truth.
Last Sunday night we began to look at the subject, “For whom did Christ die?” Or, “The Nature of the Atonement.” Or as I chose to call it, “The Doctrine of Actual Atonement.” And I want to go back to that. If you weren’t here last week, it really would be helpful for you to get the tape or the CD, whatever is best for you, and to listen to what I said and pair it up with what we’re going to say tonight because you’re going to get just a very abbreviated review of that important foundation.
These doctrines challenge us. They challenge us because even when we understand them the best we can from a biblical viewpoint, there is still a lot left over. There is still the inscrutable reality of the incomprehensible mind of God. And there are always going to be things that just don’t quite resolve completely to us. Every doctrinal symphony is, in some ways, an unfinished symphony. Every major doctrine of the Scripture ends in an unresolved chord because we, in our finite minds, cannot, in the end, fully grasp the infinity of God’s mind. But we do the best we can and we leave the rest to Him. And so, in the end we entrust to Him what we do not understand and embrace with all our hearts what we do..." from the Transcript
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