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- Jesus was saying that his death established a new covenant: one that all the other covenants were leading up to. Jesus was declaring that his death was the ultimate substitutionary sacrifice. This is how Jesus understood the significance and meaning of his death. It wasn’t just a model of self-sacrifice. It wasn’t just an unjust tragedy.
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Mar 6, 2014 · The death of Jesus reconciles us to God. Justification, propitiation, and redemption — all benefits of Christ’s death — have one great purpose: reconciliation. Jesus’s death enables us to have a joy-filled relationship with God, which is the highest good of the cross.
Apr 6, 2023 · Jesus was saying that his death established a new covenant: one that all the other covenants were leading up to. Jesus was declaring that his death was the ultimate substitutionary sacrifice. This is how Jesus understood the significance and meaning of his death.
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- To achieve His own resurrection from the dead. The death of Christ did not merely precede His resurrection–it was the price that obtained it. The Bible says He was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it.
- To show His own love for us. The death of Christ is not only the demonstration of God’s love (John 3:16), it is also the supreme expression of Christ’s own love for all who receive it as their treasure.
- In order to cancel the legal demands of the law against us. What a folly to think that our good deeds may one day outweigh our bad deeds. First, it is not true.
- To provide the basis for our justification and to complete the obedience that becomes our righteousness. To be justified in a courtroom is not the same as being forgiven.
Jul 25, 2024 · Jesus Himself said, “ I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6). In this statement, Jesus declares the reason for His birth, death, and resurrection—to provide the way to heaven for sinful mankind, who could never get there on their own.
What does it mean that Jesus died “for us?” Learn how to unpack the complexity of Jesus' death by exploring key moments in the biblical story.
1 day ago · Homo viator seeks to be united with God, in goodness, truth and beauty. He is man on the journey of life, a journey which is also a pilgrimage. Homo viator is on the quest for heaven. He seeks the wholeness which is holiness. And yet he is given the freedom to either choose or refuse the pilgrimage of life. Homo viator chooses the good; homo ...
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Central to the redeeming work of our Lord Jesus Christ is his death for our sins. A theology of atonement is a biblical-theological explanation of why Jesus, as God’s Son, had to die and what he achieved in his death for us as our Savior.
