The Active Obedience of Christ

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🗓️ 9 April 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Most Christians know about the forgiveness of sins, but not the doctrine of active obedience. But how do we become righteous if not through imputation? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland explain what is meant by the active obedience of Christ and why there’s no hope without it.

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0:00.0	I mean, we have a covenant in creation, at least in reformed theology we talk about it
0:07.3	this way.
0:08.3	Do this and you shall live is the principle of that covenant.
0:11.2	So is Mount Sinai.
0:13.2	Do this and you will live.
0:14.7	And Moses sprinkled the blood on the people in accordance with their words, all this we
0:18.8	will do.
0:19.8	Okay.
0:20.8	Blood on your head.
0:21.8	Then in the upper room, Jesus doesn't sprinkle them saying in accordance with your promise,
0:28.3	all this we will keep, all this we will do in said he says, my body broken for you,
0:33.4	my blood shed for you, blood of the new covenant for you.
0:37.5	And so now this is God fulfilling his covenant, his pledge in a covenant of grace.
0:46.1	Applying the riches of the Reformation to the modern church, this is White Horse Sin,
1:00.2	a weekly round table discussion about theology and culture.
1:06.7	Hello and welcome to another edition of White Horse Sin.
1:17.9	I'm here with my friends Bob Hiller, Walter Strickland and Justin Holcomb.
1:23.1	And we are talking about our favorite subject, Jesus.
1:27.3	It really is the center of the heart of everything.
1:30.5	Everything radiates from Jesus, points to Jesus, from Genesis to Revelation.
1:35.7	And we see that particularly in this doctrine of the active obedience of Christ.
1:41.3	So it's often a category that gets sort of sidelined or in some cases is just left out.
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