Welcome to the For the Gospel Podcast. My name is Kosti Hin and I am your host. For the

gospel is all about providing sound doctrine for everyday people. And on this episode, I want

to talk to you about the doctrine of the atonement. The idea of atonement is one that is thrown

around a lot today in church circles and maybe you're new to church or new to Christianity or you've

been a professing Christian for a long time. You've probably heard the atonement in an Easter

sermon or a good Friday sermon in relation to Christ dying on the cross. But there's a lot of

confusion as well about the atonement. Some people will say, Jesus died for your sins and you receive

salvation by faith, which is true. They'll also say, hey, he didn't just pay for your sin,

he paid for your sickness. He atoned for that cancer. He atoned for your poverty and you can

receive healing and you could receive riches if you just believe by faith as well. And the atonement

gets stamped on a lot of things. Now, there are some truths that we want to talk about in relation

to healing and in relation to the blessings of God through the atonement. And we'll get to those

shortly. But I think it's important for us to understand what the idea of atonement is all about.

I want to read you a passage where we see the atonement very clear in scripture. It's first John

chapter 2 verses 1 and 2. John writes, my little children, I'm writing these things to you

so that you don't sin. And if anyone sins, because he knows that people are going to sin,

we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. And then he calls Jesus

something in verse 2. He himself, first John 2 verse 2, is the propitiation for our sins,

not only for ours only, but also those of the whole world or the cosmos. And basically,

what John is saying is that Jesus is the atonement, the propitiation. That's what the Greek word

is translated as atonement. And the word defines that which appeases anger. If you look up the word

atonement, it means that there has been an act which has brought about reconciliation with someone

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