The Cross Of Christ

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The Cross Of Christ

• 1 Corinthians 118-25

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We Glory In The Cross (Gal. 614)

• Message of the cross, foolishness to the
  perishing. 1 Cor. 118
• Greeks considered it foolishness. 1 Cor. 123
• Jews considered it a stumblingblock. 1 Cor.
  122-24 cf. Stumblingblock of the cross. Gal.
  511
• Curse of one hanged on a tree. Gal. 313
• Jesus endured the shame. Heb. 122

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We Glory In The Cross (Gal. 614)

• Paul preached Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 1
  Cor. 22
• Some attempted to make void the cross of
  Christ. 1 Cor. 117
• Some were enemies of the cross of Christ.
  Phil. 318 Gal. 614
• The Word of the Cross (ASV) is the message of
  the cross, and includes all that the death of
  Christ stands for! 1 Cor. 118

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The Cross Of Christ

• Why Did Jesus Die On The Cross?

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Why Did Jesus Die On The Cross?

• He Gave Himself. John 1017-18
• He gave his life a ransom for many. Mt. 2028
• He gave himself a ransom for all. 1 Tim. 26
• Much mental anguish and physical suffering.
• Heb. 57
• Mt. 2638-44 cf. Luke 2239-46
• John 1227-28
• Luke 2243

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Why Did Jesus Die On The Cross?

• He gave Himself as a ransom.
• A ransom is a price paid to liberate or to
  redeem. We are bought with a price. 1 Cor.
  619-20.
• Since man is carnal, sold under sin (Rom.
  714), it was necessary that Divine Justice
  should receive a price that would deliver the
  souls of men.
• Silver and gold could not redeem man. 1 Pet.
  118-19.
• Animal blood could not redeem man. Heb. 104.
• Human life was inadequate to redeem man, as it
  would be the substitute of one sinner for
  another. Rom. 323.

The only price that could accomplish our
redemption was voluntarily paid by our Lord on
the Cross. 1 Pet. 118-19.
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Why Did Jesus Die On The Cross?

• He gave Himself that we might be reconciled to
  God.
• While we were enemies, we were reconciled to God
  through the death of His Son. Rom. 510.
• He reconciled the world, not reckoning unto them
  their trespasses. 2 Cor. 518-19 cf. Heb.
  88-12.
• To be reconciled means that sins, which alienated
  us from God, have been forgiven. This was
  possible because He made peace through the blood
  of His cross. Col. 120.
• We receive this reconciliation personally when we
  repent and are baptized into Jesus Christ. Acts
  238 Gal. 326- 27

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Why Did Jesus Die On The Cross?

• His death on the cross was a propitiation an
  appeasement. (Rom. 325-26 cf. 1 John 22)
• That God might be JUST!

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Why Did Jesus Die On The Cross?

• He gave Himself on the cross for ME!
• He died for our sins. 1 Cor. 153.
• Christ also suffered for you. 1 Pet. 221.
• He suffered for sins once, the righteous for the
  unrighteous, that He might bring us to God. 1
  Pet. 318.
• Him who knew no sin he made (to be) sin on our
  behalf that we might become the righteousness of
  God in him. 2 Cor. 521
• Who his own self bare our sins in his body upon
  the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might
  live unto righteousness by whose stripes ye were
  healed.

Jesus, both Priest AND Victim! Heb. 727-28
Heb. 925-26
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The Cross Of Christ

• What Was Accomplished On The Cross?

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What Was Accomplished on the Cross?

• The Old Testament was Finished, John 1930 Eph.
  214-15 Col. 214.
• The New Testament was Instituted. Heb. 915-17.
• The Church was Purchased. Acts 2028.
• Propitiation for Sin was Offered. Rom. 325.
• Forgiveness of Sin was Made Possible. Eph. 17.

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What Was Accomplished on the Cross?

• Remission of Sins was Made Possible. Acts 238.
• Justification before God was Made Possible. Rom.
  59.
• Reconciliation was Made Possible. Eph. 213-16
  Col. 120.
• Peace was Made. Col. 120.
• God's People are Sanctified. Heb. 1312.

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Conclusion

• Isaiah 534-5
• 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried
  our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken,
  smitten of God, and afflicted.
• 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he
  was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement
  of our peace was upon him and with his stripes
  we are healed.