We will study 1 Peter 1:18-19 to understand what it means that Christ has ransomed us from sin through his work on the cross.

Jesus is the final High Priest. He is pure, blameless, holy and exalted. We are washed clean and He intercedes for us continually. We have direct access to God.

Propitiation means that Jesus absorbed all of God's wrath. The ransom has been paid, we are free.

The author to Hebrews spends a great deal of time and energy demonstrating that the Old Testament sacrificial system ultimately failed to accomplish its intended goal. Rather, Jesus did what the High Priest could not do.

In Romans 3:19-24, we learn that Christ is our justification. Calvin called justification the hinge on which the gospel turns