The pleasures of loving and obeying, loving and adoring, blessing and praising the Infinite Being, the Best of Beings, the Eternal Jehovah; the pleasures of trusting in Jesus Christ, in contemplating His beauties, excellencies, and glories; in contemplating His love to mankind and to us, in contemplating His infinite goodness and astonishing loving-kindness; the pleasures of [the] communion of the Holy Ghost in conversing with God, the maker and governor of the world; the pleasure that results from the doing of our duty, in acting worthily and excellently;…these are the pleasures that are worthy of so noble a creature as a man is.
Jonathan Edwards

Propitiation

Propitiation

PROPITIATION

Author: Jim Fox

Propitiation is defined in Websters Dictionary as “to cause to become favorably inclined”; “win or regain the good will of”; “appease or conciliate (sacrifices)”

Jesus bore on the cross God’s righteous judgement of our sin, so that by His death God is propitiated. “being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith.” (Rom 3:24-25)

In case at this point you are wondering why this propitiation is needed let me qoute from Rom. 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”. Christ died in our place when He was crucified. If we do not accept the price Christ paid for our sins and have faith in Him, we will not be saved and we ourselves will then have to pay for the penalty of our sin… which is eternal death.

Paul in 1 Corinthians declares “for you have been bought with a price”.

Again who is it that paid that price? Jesus! “In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” (1 John 4:10)

Sources:
The Open Bible (NASB)
Basic Bible Doctrine by Day
-More- The Zondervan Pictorial Dictionary

Youngs Analytical Dictionary