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The Redemptive Power of Sacrifice: Understanding Sin and Salvation

From the beginning, God established a rule: "Sin = Death". However, to fulfill His desire for humanity to multiply and thrive, He introduced a redemptive system through sacrifices. This began with Adam and Eve, who sacrificed their intimate fellowship with God. Abraham faced the ultimate test of sacrifice, leading to the provision of the sacrificial lamb. Ultimately, Jesus emerged as the ultimate sacrifice, whose blood cleanses our conscience. Through baptism, we engage with His redemptive sacrifice, calling us to continually die to sin and embrace a life of faith.

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The Redemptive Power of Sacrifice: Understanding Sin and Salvation

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  1. Sacrifice for Sin From the very beginning, God had a simple rule for mankind: “Sin = Death” But, since He desired man to “multiply and fill the earth,” and since sin had entered the world, there was a (foreseen, Eph.1:4) need for a redemptivesystem through which man could be saved. Thus was the beginning of the sacrificial system.

  2. Sacrifice for Sin Adam and Eve sacrificed: • Intimate fellowship with God, Gen.3:8; 3:23-24 • God’s gracious provision, Gen.2:8,15-16; 3:17-23 • Their lives,Gen.2:16-17; 3:19-24

  3. Sacrifice for Sin Cain and Abel sacrificed: • Cain sacrificed of the “fruit of the ground,”Gen.4:1-3 • Abel also sacrificed, but did so from “the firstlings of the flock,”Gen.4:4 • Abel’s sacrifice was “by faith,” Heb.11:4; Rom.10:17 • But Cain, by not acting by faith, and refusing to repent, sacrificed fellowship with God, Gen.4:5-12ff

  4. Sacrifice for Sin Abraham sacrificed: • God tested him with the ultimate sacrifice, Gen.22:1-2 • Abraham passed the sacrificial test,Gen.4:3-10 • But, as Abraham predicted, God provided the sacrificial lamb, Gen.22:8,11-14

  5. Sacrifice for Sin This sacrificial system of life for life redemption was eventually codified: • It was perhaps hinted at in Gen.9:3-6 • But more fully explained in the Law of Moses,Lev.17:11-14 • However, these were but the mere shadow of things to come, Heb.10:1-4

  6. Sacrifice for Sin John 1:29, John said of Jesus, “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!” • He was the Sacrifice of all sacrifices, for His blood cleansed the consciencerather than just the fleshof man, Heb.9:8-14 • It was the bloodof this perfect, firstborn Lamb that provided complete redemption,Eph.1:7 • So, there is really but one question left…

  7. Sacrifice for Sin How is the cleansing of that redemptive sacrifice applied to us? Romans 6 • Baptism puts us in contact with the bloodof Jesus’ sacrifice, v.3(see also John 19:33-34andRev.1:5) • But baptism also includes our death- we die to sin,vv.4(sin still = death) • However, this is not the end for our death to sinmust continue after baptism, vv.2,5-13

  8. Sacrifice for Sin Now, the big questions: • Do you understand why and how God’s sacrificial system works? • Have you offered the proper sacrifice for your sins by dying and being buried with Christ in baptism to contact the saving blood of His sacrifice? • Is there a continual putting to death / crucifixion of your old self of sin?

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