If there's anything that's been lost from our culture, it is the idea that human beings are

privately, personally, and individually, ultimately, inexorably accountable to God for their lives.

Growing up in a non-Christian family in a largely secular country, Australia, I had no

cultural or shared societal knowledge that I was accountable to my Creator, that I was estranged from

him.

And that delusion that we're all okay.

And if there's a heaven, we'll all go there when we die is even more prevalent today.

This is renewing your mind and it's good to have you with us for a week of messages from

R.C. Sprawl on the Cross of Christ. It's especially important because of the widespread

biblical illiteracy that our gospel presentations explain the need for an

atonement and what Christ has marvelously and graciously

accomplished on the cross. This week's series, along with Dr Sproll's book

The Truth of the Cross, will help you understand and defend the riches of the cross.

You can learn how you can access both resources at renewing your mind.org.

So why was the atonement necessary? Why was Christ's death more than a good example of self-sacrifice?

Here's Dr Sproll to explain.

In this series of lectures, to explain.

In this series of lectures we're going to be focusing our attention on the atonement of Christ.

In the field of systematic theology we divide that discipline into various subheadings such

as theology proper and pneumatology which is the study of the person and work of the Holy Spirit and so on

and one of the most important subdivisions of theology is what we call Christology which is a study of the person of Christ and the work of Christ.

And when we consider the work of Christ, and we get to that aspect which is most crucial which we may call safely the

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