What did God set forth Christ to be through faith in His blood?
God set forth Christ to be a propitiation through faith in His blood. Romans 3 teaches that all have sinned and come short of God's glory, but sinners are justified freely by His grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus. This propitiation is not by works but by faith in His blood.
Les explains from Romans 3:23-25 that all—Jew and Gentile—have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Yet verse 24 says believers are justified freely by His grace, not by works, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Les emphasizes that the cross makes the difference: Christ, the Son of the Living God, went to the cruel cross and shed His blood. God set Him forth as a propitiation through faith in His blood. Les notes that this truth had never been mentioned before.
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
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Why do we place faith in Jesus' blood?
Faith in Christ's blood is for the remission of past sins and, through God's forbearance, to declare His righteousness at this time.