It is God who sends His Son into the world to pay the price of the moral guilt

and to resolve the moral indebtedness that we have.

And says, I will accept your payment in behalf of these guilty people

who are debtors that cannot pay their own debt.

The Apostle Paul said to the Corinthians that he determined to know nothing except Christ crucified.

Could the same be said about us? Have we spent the time really reflecting on and meditating upon all that Christ accomplished for His people on the cross?

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us for this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

Over the next three weeks, as Arcy Sproul continues his overview of theology from his series Foundations,

he will help us see what he calls the great tapestry of the Atonement of Christ.

He will look at each thread, the different ways that the Bible speaks of the cross of Christ,

and how He secured salvation for His people. He has Dr. Sproul.

As we continue now with our study of that section of systematic theology that is Christology,

we're now about to embark on one of the most important dimensions of Christology that we will be studying,

and that involves the Atonement. Now, we're going to devote three specific lectures to the whole concept of the Atonement.

And as far as I'm concerned, that doesn't begin to do justice to the importance of this doctrine.

And as I've said on other occasions, we have supplementary material for those of you who want to go deeper.

We have a whole series called The Cross of Christ, which happens to be one of my favorite series that we've ever done here at Ligonier.

So if this wet your appetite, then you want to go deeper into the subject, I would commend that to your consideration.

Back in the Middle Ages, in the early Middle Ages, St. Anne-Sum of Canterbury,

wrote three little monograps for which he's become famous, too, in the realm of apologetics, called the monologium and the prosologium.

But perhaps his most famous little work is the work, Kerr Daes, Homo, in which Anne-Sum addressed the question that is raised here in the title,

which the word simply means, why the God may.

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