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Sacrifice of Christ

Justice requires punishment for wrongdoing and God is perfectly just. A penalty is due for all the wrongs that we have done (our sin). The charge is far beyond our ability to pay. Multiply that by the billions of people throughout history and it is apparent that this debt is something only God himself could cover. But doing so would require a tremendous cost. The only thing that could fully pay the penalty was for a perfect person to stand in our place and take the death penalty we deserved. God’s Son, Jesus — the only perfect being who ever lived on Earth — willingly did that for us.

 

His execution was on a Roman cross.

 

Three days later Jesus was raised from the dead, thereby conquering death and proving his claim to be God.

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  • We are completely justified because of Christ

    Romans 5:9 

    Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!


    Colossians 1:12-14

    and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.


    Colossians 1:19-20

    For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.


    Hebrews 9:12-15 

    He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves; but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

    For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance —now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.

  • Sacrifice / bloodshed required

    Hebrews 9:22

    In fact, the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.


  • Jesus Christ, the spotless Lamb, the perfect sacrifice, shed his blood

    Romans 5:8-9

    But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

    Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!


    1 Peter 1:17-19

    Since you call on a Father who judges each person’s work impartially, live out your time as foreigners here in reverent fear. For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.


    1 John 3:16a

    This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us.


    Ephesians 1:7

    In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace

  • The love of God makes possible the salvation of mankind.

    John 3:16

    For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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