It is Jesus Christ in his incarnation and
sacrificial death who is he final model and motivation for servanthood.
Not exact matches
Such a severe penalty leaves room for God's grace and mercy (totally underserved) for those
who believe in Jesus
sacrificial death on the cross at Calvary and His redemptive resurrection.
Instead, God is to be found in the self -
sacrificial death of a lamb,
who pours out His blood for others, so that
death and destruction, when it comes, passes over the house and can not touch those
who live within.
He came into the world and died a
sacrificial death on the cross so that those
who believe in Him would be saved (John 3:16).
But Jesus»
sacrificial death has given value to all suffering if it is accepted and offered in union with Him out of love for the Father, sincere sorrow for sins - our own and those of the whole world - and charity towards those
who have caused it.
Once His
sacrificial death and resurrection occurred those in the OT
who had faith in God had their sins taken away, but not before then.
«For Paul, Jesus»
death on the cross is an act of loving, self -
sacrificial obedience that becomes paradigmatic for the obedience of all
who are in Christ.»
Secondly, as I have mentioned, Cahill takes seriously the witness of the whole of the New Testament and thus avoids the myopia of those
who wish to see the significance of Jesus exclusively in his teaching and
who bypass the challenge of his
sacrificial death and his continuing presence among us.
I certainly hope for the Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, as I would hope for myself and others with me, if found out to be of Christian faith and a modern order, not unlike the Christians
who walked with Jesus as a man and Pastor
who, as it were, was finally offered up as a
sacrificial offering to God upon a cross after being found guilty of offending the then Church of Israel
who then proposed his
death sentance to be carried out by a Roman Court, though he was innocent of the charges.
who came up with the concepts of virgin birth,
sacrificial death, making man god?
What the Roman mass has been saying in glorious drama through the centuries is that in the
sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection of Christ, ever repeated through the most solemn rites of the Church, the God
who has acted in him for our redemption is here at the altar and will act again and now for those
who seek him in true penitence and faith.
God
Who saves through the
sacrificial death of His Son still gives grace and power to sin no more Mat 1:21; Heb 2:14; His disciples were already saved before He prayed for their sanctification.
Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those
who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the
sacrificial death of Jesus.
His righteousness is immutable, his justice fixed, and the wages of sin were reaped by Christ via his
sacrificial death for all those
who believe on him.
The message of the Bible is that all
who look to Jesus Christ alone as having taken on Himself the penalty for mankind's sin and paid for our sin debt in full through His
sacrificial death on the cross, will be reconciled to God and spend eternity with Him.
There's Willard Russell, tormented veteran of the carnage in the South Pacific,
who can't save his beautiful wife, Charlotte, from an agonizing
death by cancer no matter how much
sacrificial blood he pours on his «prayer log.»