| Type of Language |
Biblical Words |
Human Need |
The Result |
| Language of OT sacrifices |
Blood, lamb, sacrifice |
We are guilty |
We are forgiven |
| Language of personal relationships |
Reconciliation |
We are alienated from God |
We are brought back into intimate fellowship with God |
| Language of righteous anger at wrongdoing |
Propitiation |
We are under God’s holy wrath |
God’s wrath is satisfied/quenched |
| Language of the marketplace |
Redemption, ransom |
We are enslaved |
We are set free |
| Language of the law court |
Justification |
We are condemned |
We are pardoned and counted as righteous |
| Language of the battlefield |
Victory, deliverance, rescue |
We are facing dreadful enemies |
We are delivered and are triumphant in Christ |