{"id":4483,"date":"2012-11-26T10:10:36","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T17:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2024-03-26T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:35:31","slug":"sacrifice-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/2012\/11\/26\/sacrifice-of-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacrifice of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4484\" title=\"112612_sacrificechrist\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/112612_sacrificechrist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/112612_sacrificechrist.jpg 545w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/112612_sacrificechrist-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.blueletterbible.org\/blb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/11\/112612_sacrificechrist-500x155.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color: #333333\"><strong>Each month, we will be highlighting a particular theological topic here at the BLB blog. This month, we are highlighting the topic of\u00a0<strong>soteriology<\/strong>\u2014the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.<strong>\u00a0The following is adapted from the commentaries of F.E. Marsh, coming soon to the BLB.<\/strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Here are 6 statements pertaining to the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ on the cross for our sins.<\/p>\n<p>This was a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong id=\"yui-gen41\">&#8230;Necessary Sacrifice.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong id=\"yui-gen41\"><\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and [as a sacrifice] for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Romans 8:3 KJV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong id=\"yui-gen33\"><strong id=\"yui-gen41\">&#8230;<\/strong>Offered Sacrifice.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily&#8230;since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Heb. vii. 27).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong><strong id=\"yui-gen41\">&#8230;<\/strong>Removing Sacrifice.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Hebrews 9:26)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong><strong id=\"yui-gen41\">&#8230;<\/strong>Perfect Sacrifice.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God&#8221;<br \/>\n(Hebrews 10:12).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong><strong id=\"yui-gen41\">&#8230;<\/strong>Accepted Sacrifice.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.&#8221;<br \/>\n(Ephesians 5:2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong><strong id=\"yui-gen41\">&#8230;<\/strong>Substitutionary Sacrifice.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.&#8221;<br \/>\n(1 Corinthians 5:7)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each month, we will be highlighting a particular theological topic here at the BLB blog. This month, we are highlighting the topic of\u00a0soteriology\u2014the doctrine of salvation through Jesus Christ.\u00a0The following is adapted from the commentaries of F.E. Marsh, coming soon to the BLB. 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