The death of Christ was a real, true, actual satisfaction of divine justice.

It was a true payment and a true atonement in full, actually not potentially paid to God

by Christ on behalf of all who would ever believe because they were chosen and redeemed

by the power of God.

Welcome to Grace to you with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

When Jesus died on the cross, did he pay for the sins of every individual so that

anyone and everyone, all they have to do is simply believe in Christ for the salvation that has already

been provided for them, or did Jesus die only for some sinners and only those people will be saved?

Those questions are at the heart of the

debate over the doctrine of the atonement. It's one of the pillars of salvation truth that John

MacArthur is looking at in his current study called the doctrines of grace. Now, for answers to those

important questions, follow along as John begins today's lesson.

Certainly, the doctrine of the extent of the atonement is one of those doctrines that takes us

way beyond where we will be comfortable to go. It stretches our minds to the breaking point.

It takes our theology out to the perimeter of our tolerances.

And in the end it leaves us with some incomprehensible realities and that's as it should

be.

Since we are finite and he is infinite, there should be a vast distinction between what we can

know and what God does know.

But there are ways in which we can go to the edge of our comprehension and to the edge

of biblical revelation to understand the greatness and the glory of the work of redemption.

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