Messiah Died For Sins Once For All

The Priority of the Cross

The World Religions Direct Attention to the Teachings of their human founder or leader.

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At the heart of Messianic Faith is the Cross of the Messiah:

The Cross Was Yeshua’s singular Mission -

Mark 10:45 HCSB

For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life —a ransom for many.”

The Cross Was A Main Concern of the Hebrew Bible - ;

Luke 24:25–27 HCSB

He said to them, “How unwise and slow you are to believe in your hearts all that the prophets have spoken! Didn’t the Messiah have to suffer these things and enter into His glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He interpreted for them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures.

Mark 14:21 HCSB

For the Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”

The Cross was the theme of Peter’s First Recorded Sermon -

Acts 2:22–23 HCSB

“Men of Israel, listen to these words: This Jesus the Nazarene was a man pointed out to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through Him, just as you yourselves know. Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.

The Cross was central to Rabbi Paul’s Thinking -

1 Corinthians 2:2 HCSB

For I didn’t think it was a good idea to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

The Cross is essential to and the first part of the Gospel -

1 Corinthians 15:1–3 HCSB

Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it. You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you—unless you believed for no purpose. For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

The Cross alone can permanently remove sins. -

Hebrews 10:11–18 HCSB

Every priest stands day after day ministering and offering the same sacrifices time after time, which can never take away sins. But this man, after offering one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God. He is now waiting until His enemies are made His footstool. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified. The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after He says: This is the covenant I will make with them after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws on their hearts and write them on their minds, He adds: I will never again remember their sins and their lawless acts. Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

The Cross is Graphically Portrayed - ; ;

Deuteronomy 21:22–23 HCSB

“If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree, you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Galatians 3:13 HCSB

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, because it is written: Everyone who is hung on a tree is cursed.

1 Peter 2:24 HCSB

He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that, having died to sins, we might live for righteousness; you have been healed by His wounds.

The Cross of Christ The Apostles’ Emphasis

If then Peter and Paul in their letters plainly saw the cross of Jesus in sin-bearing or curse-bearing terms, and both linked this fact with the verses in Deuteronomy about being hanged on a tree, is it not reasonable to suppose that already in their Acts speeches, in which they called the cross a tree, they had glimpsed the same truth? In this case there is more doctrinal teaching about the cross in the early sermons of the apostles than they are often credited with.

The Cross takes precedence over the Resurrection.

The Simplest Message of the Apostles was as follows

You Killed Him

God Raised Him

We are Witnesses

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The One who was crucified was Glorified by Resurrection (; ).

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The One who was crucified Promoted at the Resurrection

He is Exalted to the Right Hand of God (; )

He is Lord and Messiah ()

He is Ruler and Savior ()

He is Sovereign King and Lord over All ().

The The One who was crucified and raised received All Authority.

He Has All Authority ()

He Gives the Holy Spirit ()

He Grants Repentance ().

He Gives Forgiveness of Sins (; ; )

He Purchases Sinners ()

He Justifies Sinners ().

He Creates a New Nature Within Us ()

Illustrate: their is tremendous evidence that the first century Jewish followers of Jesus used the sign of the cross as a powerful symbol and testimony. - http://www.leaderu.com/theology/burialcave.html

In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity The Sources

On several “ossuaries” (some found in the grounds of Dominus Flevit on the Mount of Olives, others in Talpiot and other locations) one discerns crosses. (An ossuary is a small stone coffin or box for reburial of bones. They were used by Jews in the period ca. 400 B.C.–A.D. 135.) Are these crosses Christian symbols? The Franciscan fathers think yes. The well-known archaeologist Jack Finegan supports this position with the following argument: the early Christian cross symbol is rooted in the Hebrew tav (+) symbolism. He demonstrates that the + (cross) mark is used in the margin of some Qumran scrolls to indicate passages about the Messiah or the messianic age. He points to the fact that although the + was a Jewish symbol, it was never previously used as a burial symbol in the Jewish tradition. Thus he supports the Franciscan view that the ossuary crosses are messianic symbols of Jewish Christian origin.

The Purpose of the Cross

What was there about the crucifixion of Jesus which, in spite of its horror, shame and pain, makes it so important that God planned it in advance and Messiah voluntarily and purposely came to endure it?