What is the significance of Jesus’ sacrifice? - Sacrifice - TouchPoints

John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”

Romans 3:25God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin. People are made right with God when they believe that Jesus sacrificed his life, shedding his blood. This sacrifice shows that God was being fair when he held back and did not punish those who sinned in times past,

1 Peter 2:24He [Christ] personally carried our sins in his body on the cross so that we can be dead to sin and live for what is right. By his wounds you are healed.

Jesus Christ took the punishment we deserve for our sins and made atonement for us (made us “at one” with God), not by covering up our sins, but by taking them away.

Matthew 26:26-28As they were eating, Jesus took some bread and blessed it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take this and eat it, for this is my body.” And he took a cup of wine and gave thanks to God for it. He gave it to them and said, “Each of you drink from it, for this is my blood, which confirms the covenant between God and his people. It is poured out as a sacrifice to forgive the sins of many.”

Of the many symbolic items available on the Passover table during the Last Supper, Jesus chose two to establish what we now call Communion, or the Lord’s Supper. The bread and the cup uniquely point to Christ’s atoning death. The bread which points to his body represents Jesus’ suffering and punishment-bearing on our behalf. The cup of wine which points to his blood represents his life poured out completely to death for us. Jesus could have suffered a great deal and stayed alive, but he suffered all and also died for us. Jesus’ death began a new covenant between God and those who come to him by faith. Now you can have an intimate relationship with God because Jesus removed your sin by his sacrificial death.

Romans 8:3The law of Moses was unable to save us because of the weakness of our sinful nature. So God did what the law could not do. He sent his own Son in a body like the bodies we sinners have. And in that body God declared an end to sin’s control over us by giving his Son as a sacrifice for our sins.

Hebrews 9:12-14With his own blood—not the blood of goats and calves—he entered the Most Holy Place once for all time and secured our redemption forever. Under the old system, the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a young cow could cleanse people’s bodies from ceremonial impurity. Just think how much more the blood of Christ will purify our consciences from sinful deeds so that we can worship the living God. For by the power of the eternal Spirit, Christ offered himself to God as a perfect sacrifice for our sins.

Animal sacrifices could not take away our sins; only Jesus’ sacrifice for us could take away our sins and make it possible for us to have eternal life.

John 3:16“For this is how God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”

John 14:6Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.”

Acts 4:12“There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”

1 Timothy 2:5There is one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity—the man Christ Jesus.

Because Jesus is the only means by which forgiveness can be obtained, faith in him is the only means of salvation.