Preached at the Merritt Island church of Christ http://MIchurchOfChrist.org Adapted from Ken Craig's Lecture at Florida College 2012 http://bookstore.floridacollege.edu/product/50834/FC12BK-HE-DIED-AND-WAS-BURIED/

2. The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Behold, the Lamb
of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
- John 1:29 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE?
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4. For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
- Romans 3:23 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: Mankind is Sinful
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5. 21 I find then the principle that evil is present in me, the one who
wants to do good. 22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the
inner man, 23 but I see a different law in the members of my body,
waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of
the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am!
Who will set me free from the body of this death?
- Romans 7:21-24 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: Mankind is Sinful
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6. This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you,
that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.
- 1 John 1:5 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: God is Holy
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7. 1 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, “Depart, go up from here, you and
the people whom you have brought up from the land of Egypt, to the
land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, ‘To your
descendants I will give it.’ 2 “I will send an angel before you and I will
drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the
Hivite and the Jebusite. 3 “Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey;
for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people,
and I might destroy you on the way.”
- Exodus 33:1-3 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: God is Holy
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8. 4 When the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him
from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said,
“Here I am.” 5 Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your
sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy
ground.”
- Exodus 3:4-5 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: God is Holy
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9. 13 Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up
his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him
with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to
him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?” 14 He said, “No; rather I
indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD.” And Joshua fell
on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, “What has
my lord to say to his servant?” 15 The captain of the LORD’S host said
to Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place where
you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
- Joshua 5:13-15 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: God is Holy
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10. For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil
dwells with You
- Psalm 5:4 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: God is Holy
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11. How can I give you up, O Ephraim? How can I surrender you, O
Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like
Zeboiim? My heart is turned over within Me, All My compassions are
kindled.
- Hosea 11:8 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Dilemma of a Father Separated from the Children
He Loves and Who Love Him
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12. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go away also, do
you?" 68 Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You
have words of eternal life.”
- John 6:67-68 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Dilemma of a Father Separated from the Children
He Loves and Who Love Him
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13. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God,
and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.
- Isaiah 59:2 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Dilemma of a Father Separated from the Children
He Loves and Who Love Him
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14. Even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive
together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).
- Ephesians 2:5 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: We Were Spiritually Dead
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15. When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of
your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all
our transgressions.
- Colossians 2:13 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: We Were Spiritually Dead
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16. 16 The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the
garden you may eat freely; 17 but from the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat from it you
will surely die.”
- Genesis 2:16-17 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Cost of Sin is Death
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17. The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for
the father's iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the
son's iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself,
and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.
- Ezekiel 18:20 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Cost of Sin is Death
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18. 14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by
his own lust. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and
when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
- James 1:14-15 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Cost of Sin is Death
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19. And according to the Law, one may almost say, all things are cleansed
with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.
- Hebrews 9:22 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Fundamental Principle of Atonement
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20. For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the
altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood by reason of
the life that makes atonement.
- Leviticus 17:11 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Fundamental Principle of Atonement
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21. ATONEMENT - To make right
(reconcile) a wrong
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22. 1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come
and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices
which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw
near. 2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because
the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had
consciousness of sins? 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of
sins year by year. 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats
to take away sins.
- Hebrews 10:1-4 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Blood of Bulls & Goats Would not Suffice
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23. The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, "Behold, the Lamb
of God who takes away the sin of the world!”
- John 1:29 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE:The Great Answer to Our Dilemma
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24. Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you
are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been
sacrificed.
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: Christ Our Passover Lamb
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25. Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver
or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19but
with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood
of Christ.
- 1 Peter 1:18-19 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb
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26. All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own
way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
- Isaiah 53:6 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: He Bore Our Iniquity
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27. And He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we
might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were
healed.
- 1 Peter 2:24 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: He Bore Our Iniquity
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28. 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the
ungodly. 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man; though perhaps
for the good man someone would dare even to die. 8 But God
demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, having now been
justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through
Him. 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God
through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we
shall be saved by His life. 11 And not only this, but we also exult in God
through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received
the reconciliation.
- Romans 5:6-11 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Fundamental Principle of Atonement
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29. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which
were yours in your ignorance, 15 but like the Holy One who called you,
be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; 16 because it is written,
“YOU SHALL BE HOLY, FOR I AM HOLY.”
- 1 Peter 1:14-16 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: We Are to be Holy
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30. Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your
bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your
spiritual service of worship.
- Romans 12:1 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: We Are to be Holy
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31. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and
gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having
cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might
present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle
or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless
- Ephesians 5:25-27 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: We Are to be Holy
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32. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things
passed away; behold, new things have come. 18 Now all these things
are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us
the ministry of reconciliation,19 namely, that God was in Christ
reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against
them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were
making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be
reconciled to God. 21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our
behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: The Ministry of Reconciliation
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33. 9 By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His
only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him.
10In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent
His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
- 1 John 4:9-10 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: We Are Made Holy by the Love and Grace of our God
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34. Propitiation = Atonement
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35. 1 And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of
speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 2 For I
determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him
crucified.
- 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 NASB
WHY A SACRIFICE: We Are Made Holy by the Love and Grace of our God
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