Secret Church

In this episode we consider the good news of Christ's dying yet triumphal words––"It is finished." He has accomplished our redemption. 

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" In this episode we consider what these mysterious words reveal about Christ's death on the cross. The curse due sinners was born by the Sinless One.

This episode examines Christ's death from the perspective of His words in the Garden of Gethsemane. Through Christ had no sin, He bore God's wrath in our place. The cross testifies to Christ's willingness to do His Father's will. 

The Last Supper vividly portrays Christ's death as the fulfillment of God's redeeming work in Israel's history. The Passover, the Day of Atonement, and the entire Old Covenant point us to Christ's sacrificial death on the cross. 

The only way for God's divine justice to be satisfied was through a divine substitute. In this episode we'll see that Christ, who was fully God and fully man, was the only sufficient sacrifice for sinners. 

While the cross certainly meets our greatest need, it is first and foremost the way in which God meets His own righteous standard. In this episode we consider how Christ's death fully satisfies God's righteousness and justice.

How does the cross save us? Many answers have been given to that question throughout history, though not all of them have been biblical. In this episode we'll look at the various theories that have been used to explain how the cross provides salvation. It's only through the lens of Scripture that we can rightly consider the various dimensions of Christ's atoning work. 

There is no Christianity apart from the cross of Christ, for it is the lifeblood of everything we believe. In this first episode, David Platt introduces us to the centrality of the cross as well as the timeline of events that led up to his final hour on earth. Our faith, as well as all of history, revolves around the death of the Son of God. 

The Holy Spirit gives us the gifts to make the glory of God known throughout the entire world. In this final episode of Secret Church 5, David Platt concludes that the Spirit will complete His sanctifying work in and through His people.

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We should regularly seek to be filled with the Spirit and to use the gifts of the Spirit for the building up of the church. But many Christians continue to ask, Are all of the Spirit's gifts––including healing, tongues, etc.––still available today, and should we seek them?

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