|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|