Finality of the Atonement

Pastor Martin drives to the essence of Christ's priestly sacrifice through two key texts: Hebrews 9:14 and Hebrews 7:27 — 'He offered up himself.' He unfolds Christ as both the passive substitutionary victim (Isaiah 53, 1 Peter 2:24) and the active representative priest who bound Himself to the altar with cords of love. Drawing on Hugh Martin, he shows that Christ's death was His grandest doing — not mere passive endurance but the most intense spiritual activity, through the eternal Spirit, offered to God without spot.

Pastor Martin concludes his study of Christ's sacrifice by considering its perfection. From Hebrews 10:1-18 he demonstrates the contrast between the imperfect, repeated sacrifices of the old economy and the perfect, one-time, finished sacrifice of Christ — witnessed by Christ sitting down at God's right hand. He then unfolds three implications of that perfection: historic objectivity, absolute finality (with Spurgeon's denunciation of the Mass), and intrinsic efficacy (bringing many sons to glory).