Understanding Christ’s Sacrifice

The Bible often explains Christ’s sacrifice using figurative and metaphoric language. To properly understand these figures of speech and metaphors, it’s important to first know what the Bible teaches in plain, literal terms. This helps form a solid foundation, so we can correctly interpret the figures of speech and metaphors the Bible uses about Christ’s sacrifice.

For example, 1 John 1:7 says that “the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” This is a metaphor. The blood itself does not literally cleanse us from sin. 1 John 1:9 explains the real meaning, that it is God who forgives our sins when we confess them.

God Sent Jesus as a Mortal Man to Save Sinners

God sent Jesus into the world both as a mortal man and as His Son, or the specific purpose of being a sacrifice to save sinners and to restore them to him by forgiving their sins and delivering them from mortal human nature with its impulses and tendencies to sin.

Jesus was specifically prepared and made as a mortal man for the purpose of being our representative. A such, he was to be saved through his own sacrifice himself, in order to open up the way of salvation through him for those who believe and identify with him in faith, Hebrews 10:5, 2:16-18, Acts 2:13-24.

God’s purpose in Jesus’ sacrifice required that he had to share fully in human mortality and live under the dominion of death, facing the same temptations to sin as everyone else, but without ever sinning (Hebrews 4:15). He inherited his mortal nature from his mother, Mary, Galatians 4:4, Romans 6:9, Hebrews 2:6-18, 4:15, 10:5.

Jesus was tempted from within like every other mortal human. James 1:14-15 explains that temptation to sin comes from our own lusts within. Being tempted is not a sin, but temptation is what leads to sin. The lusts that cause temptation arise from within and are a natural part of human nature, called “the flesh”. Mortal human nature has natural impulses and tendencies to sin that are in conflict with God’s will, 1 John 2:16-17, Galatians 5:17, Mark 7:20-21, Romans 7:17-18, 20, 23, 8:7. Mortal human nature has no good in itself and is given to sin, Romans 7:17-18, Genesis 6:5, Jeremiah 17:9. Because it is the source of sin that is “defiling” Mark 7:21-23, mortal human nature is regarded as “unclean”, Job 15:14, 25:4.

Romans 8:2–4 explains that Jesus came in "sinful flesh" or “flesh of sin”, which is a term that refers to mortal human nature with its impulses and tendencies to sin. "Sinful flesh" refers not to acts of sin, but to mortal human nature that is the source and cause of sinful acts. The phrase "likeness of" in Romans 8:3 means the “same as” or “identical to,” in the original Greek, and does not mean “likeness” as mere resemblance. The meaning is that Jesus had identical “sinful flesh” mortal human nature the same as all humans. The extent of this likeness is seen in Hebrews 2:14, “Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things”. Compare the use of “likeness” in Philippians 2:7 where it says that Jesus “was born in the likeness of men”.

2 Corinthians 5:21 says Jesus was "made to be sin," which is a figure of speech meaning he shared our mortal human nature which is the source and cause of sin. Mortal human nature is not literally “sin” but it is called “sin” by a figure of speech because it is where the impulses and tendencies to sin reside and operate. Although Jesus was born of God with mortal human nature with its impulses and tendencies to sin, he never committed any sin. He remained perfectly righteous and obedient to God.

To properly understand Jesus’ sacrifice, we must not consider Jesus alone in isolation from this work he was sent to do for us. He was there to be our Saviour, and but for our needs, we may reverently say he would not have been there.

God Sent Jesus as His Son to Save Sinners

God also made Jesus His Son, giving him the mental capacity to overcome sin, in order to fulfil his purpose which is something mortal human nature alone could never do. God worked through Jesus and strengthened him to achieve this victory over sin. 2 Corinthians 5:19, Acts 2:22, 10:38, Matthew 1:20-21, Luke 1:35, 4:18, Galatians 4:4, Isaiah 7:14, 59:16, 2 Samuel 7:14, Matthew 3:16-17, 17:5, John 1:14, 3:34-35, 4:34, 5:19,30, 7:16, 12:49-50, 14:9-10, Psalm 80:17, Romans 8:3-4.

Genesis 3:15 refers to Jesus as the “seed of the woman,” highlighting that he had no human father and was the Son of God. Only by being strengthened by God’s could Jesus overcome sin, because as a mortal man he could not do it by his own strength, John 5:30; 8:28.

God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself. Jesus was empty of self and filled with the fulness of God.

Christ’s Sacrifice Demonstrates God’s Righteousness

When Jesus was crucified, he was lifted up on the cross as a public display of God’s righteousness to demonstrate what was due to sin, which is opposed to his will. Jesus was lifted up on the cross as a public display of God’s righteousness for us to look to and have faith in, John 3:14–17, 12:32-33, Romans 3:25. Jesus’ sacrificial death is efficacious for saving people from sin and death if they have faith in what it represents Romans 3:25 (KJV), Hebrews 9:22, Leviticus 17:11, 14, 1 John 1:7-10, Romans 5:9, Colossians 1:14 (KJV), Matthew 26:28, Revelation 1:5.

The Gospel is a witness to this public lifting up of Christ on a cross. It openly reveals this righteousness of God demonstrated in Christ so that we can believe in it and have faith, Romans 1:16–17. See also John 10:18, Philippians 2:8, Romans 8:32, Acts 2:23, 4:27-28, Colossians 2:11–15, Isaiah 53.

Through Christ’s sacrifice, God can offer forgiveness and make people righteous through faith without compromising His justice and righteousness. God shows grace and mercy to save sinners who believe and have faith in the principles of his righteousness demonstrated in Christ’s sacrifice, while at the same time upholding his just sentence of mortality and death as the consequence of sin, Romans 4:3–8. In 1 John 1:7-10 we are told that God can be faithful and just in showing grace to forgive us if we confess our sins, which is an act of faith in acknowledging his righteousness.

In this way, God’s righteousness and justice was upheld in Christ’s sacrifice, and sin was condemned at its source in the flesh of mortal human nature, where the impulses to sin reside and operate, Romans 3:25; 8:3, Galatians 3:1, Colossians 2:11–15.

The shedding of Christ’s blood was necessary for salvation from sin and death. Blood symbolises life, and when Jesus’ blood was shed leading to the death of his body, it demonstrated how God’s sentence of mortality upon the human race was just and right, Romans 5:12.

The shedding of Christ’s blood, his death and the offering of his body are synonymous expressions about the sacrifice of Christ because they are so inter-related. The shedding of Christ’s blood caused the death his body as an offering. Even though Jesus was sinless, he still shared mortal human nature and God was right and just in requiring his death.

Romans 3:21-26 is a key Bible passage explaining this and is well translated in The New Testament in Modern Speech by Weymouth.

21 But now a righteousness coming from God has been brought to light apart from any Law, both Law and Prophets bearing witness to it—

22 a righteousness coming from God, which depends on faith in Jesus Christ and extends to all who believe. No distinction is made;

23 for all alike have sinned, and all consciously come short of the glory of God,

24 gaining acquittal from guilt by His free unpurchased grace through the deliverance which is found in Christ Jesus.

25 He it is whom God put forward as a Mercy-Seat, rendered efficacious through faith in His blood, in order to demonstrate His righteousness—because of the passing over, in God’s forbearance, of the sins previously committed—

26 with a view to demonstrating, at the present time, His righteousness, that He may be shown to be righteous Himself, and the giver of righteousness to those who believe in Jesus.

This is the explanation of Romans 3:21-26;

• Romans 3:21 — True righteousness only comes from God, not from human effort.

• Romans 3:22 — This righteousness is available to everyone who has faith in Jesus Christ.

• Romans 3:23 — All have sinned and cannot save themselves or be deserving of salvation. No one has any righteousness of their own , Romans 3:10.

• Romans 3:24 — God justifies sinners freely by his grace, through redemption, or deliverance, that is in Christ Jesus. “Redemption” here means being set free after a ransom is paid, and is used figuratively of God delivering us from sin and death through our faith.

• Romans 3:25 — God put forward Jesus as a "Mercy Seat" which was the meeting place between God and man in the Law of Moses, Exodus 25:22; 30:6,36. Jesus is the mediator between God and man to restore humankind to God, 1 Timothy 2:5, 1 John 2:1-2. The shedding of Jesus’ blood is efficacious to deliver from sin and death on the basis of faith in the principles of God’s righteousness publicly demonstrated in Christ’s sacrificial death.

• Romans 3:26 — Because of faith in what Christ’s sacrifice demonstrated, God can be completely right and just in showing grace and mercy to forgive sinners who have no righteousness of their own. When we confess and repent, we acknowledge that God is right and we are wrong.

Jesus could only demonstrate God’s righteousness in his sacrificial death because he was perfectly righteous and sinless in his life. This is why faith in the principles demonstrated in the sacrifice of Christ is efficacious to save from sin and death, Hebrews 4:15, Luke 4:1-13, Matthew 3:13-17, Acts 2:24.

Christ’s Sacrifice Condemned Sin in the Flesh

Romans 8:2-4 explains that God sent Jesus in the same “sinful flesh” as all humans so that in him God could condemn “sin” at its very source in “the flesh” of mortal human nature where “sin” resides and operates. The term “sinful flesh” or “flesh of sin” refers to mortal human nature because the impulses and tendencies to sin come from within.

The word "sin" is a figure of speech that refers to the actual tendencies and impulses to sin that come from within. The condemning of “sin in the flesh” by God in Jesus’ sacrificial death is described literally in Galatians 5:24 as “crucifying the flesh with its passions and desires.” Literally, the "sin" that God condemned in “the flesh” of Jesus by his sacrificial death are the impulses and tendencies to sin of his mortal human nature that he shared with us.

During his life, God strengthened Jesus to overcame the sinful tendencies in his mortal human nature, and in his death God completely condemned them by putting them to death. It was only because Jesus overcame sin in his life, that his sacrificial death was able to condemn the very source of sin in his mortal human nature.

Romans 6:6-7 uses the term “body of sin” to describe mortal human nature where sinful impulses reside and operate. Here and in Romans 8:13 the moral principle arising from this is that we are to put to death (“mortify”) the sinful deeds that come from these impulses.

1 Peter 2:24, says that Jesus “bore our sins in his body.” This does not mean our sins were transferred onto him. Rather, it means he shared the same mortal nature as us, with its sinful tendencies, but overcame them. Again, the moral principle from this is that we should die to sin and live to righteousness.

In Hebrews 2:14-15, Jesus destroyed the “devil” which has the power of death. The “devil” is the Bible’s way of personifying sin. The "devil" is not a separate being but a symbol of the sinful impulses and tendencies within human nature. The idea of a personal, immortal devil is due to the misunderstanding of certain figures and symbols in the Bible. See Fallacies - Supernatural Devil.

The "devil" (Greek: diabolos) represents sin as a power leading to death because “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23). The “devil” as sin personified, is an active spirit of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2) hostile to God’s law that resides and operates in the mortal “flesh and blood” of human nature that Jesus partook of. Jesus destroyed “the devil” in his mortal human nature through his death so as to deliver us from its power of death over us.

The Resurrection is the Saving Power of Christ’s Sacrifice

The purpose of Jesus’ death was to show God’s righteousness and love by offering a sacrifice for sin. This sacrifice was necessary to annul the “law of sin and death”, or mortality, that was a consequence of Adam’s sin. Jesus fulfilled this by temporarily submitting to the demands of death, 1 Corinthians 15:17–23; Romans 4:24–25; 5:10; John 3:14–17; 1:29; 6:63; Acts 10:43; 13:32–38; Titus 2:14; Genesis 3:15.

God raised Jesus from the dead and gave him a new, immortal life. What made Jesus different from everyone else was that he never sinned. He lived a perfect life, and God was pleased with him. If Jesus had sinned like other people, death would have held power over him like it does with everyone else. But because he was sinless, death could not keep him. God was right and just in requiring Jesus’ sacrificial death but he was also right and just in raising him from the dead and giving him immortality.

Now, Jesus serves as a priestly mediator, representing believers before God. Without Jesus’ resurrection, there would be no forgiveness of sins and no hope of being freed from mortality, Acts 2:24; 5:30; 10:40; 17:31; John 8:46; Romans 1:3–4; 6:9; 2 Corinthians 13:4; Ephesians 1:20–21; Hebrews 4:14–15; 7:23–28; 8:1; 1 John 3:5.

Christ’s Sacrifice is Efficacious To Save Through Faith

We are connected to the salvation accomplished Jesus by faith. His sacrifice is efficacious to save us from sin and death only when believers have faith in the principles of God’s righteousness and His condemnation of sin it demonstrated.

Through Christ’s sacrifice, God offers His grace to save sinful people. He makes them righteous by faith without compromising His justice. He can therefore be just in showing grace to those who have faith in him, while at the same time upholding his justice in imposing death and mortality as the consequence for sin, Romans 3:25-26, 4:3–8.

God’s gift of grace is undeserved. Even though we sin, if we have faith, God counts us as righteous. His righteousness is given to us as a free gift by his grace, 2 Corinthians 5:21; Philippians 3:9; Ephesians 2:8; Romans 4:3–6; 10:3; James 2:23

• Romans 3:22 (Weymouth): God’s righteousness is available to everyone who believes in Jesus Christ, without distinction.

• Romans 3:25 (Weymouth): God presented Jesus as a “Mercy-Seat” — a way for people to be forgiven through faith in his blood, demonstrating God’s righteousness by passing over past sins.

It’s important to understand that Christ’s sacrifice has no efficacy to save believers of itself. Christ’s sacrifice does not meet any legal requirement or perform a function or transaction. There is no intrinsic value, or property, or power in the shedding of his blood, the offering of his body, or in his death that gives it any efficacy.

The shedding of Christ’s blood has no efficacy in itself and does not literally atone, justify, purify, cleanse, wash, cover, reconcile, or redeem us. This is the Bible’s figurative and metaphorical language to describe what God does literally to save believers on the basis of their “faith in his blood” Romans 3:25 (KJV), Romans 4:3–5, 24; 5:1; 6:23; 8:1–14; 12:1–2; Galatians 2:20; 1 John 1:7–10; 5:4–5; Ephesians 2:8; John 3:14–17; Acts 10:43; Hebrews 9:14; 10:19–25; 1 Peter 1:3–9.

Christ’s sacrifice simply demonstrates to us important principles. Literally, it is God who saves us if we have faith in the principles that Christ’s sacrifice demonstrates:

• It is God who forgives us when we confess and repent and show our faith in Christ through baptism ,Romans 4:1–8; 6:3–14.

• It is God through the power of his Word and Christ’s example that purifies our minds and changes how we think and live, from fleshly to spiritual thinking, Hebrews 9:14, Romans 12:1-2, Ephesians 4:22-24, Colossians 3:9-10.

• It is God who will complete our salvation through Christ’s sacrifice by giving us immortality when Christ returns, if we have lived by faith “in Christ” living the principles of his sacrifice in following his example, John 6:39–40; Romans 8:9–11; 12:1–2; Galatians 2:20; 2 Timothy 1:8–10; 2:11–13; 1 Peter 1:9.

It is the will of God that salvation from sin and death for humanity is only possible through faith and identification with the principles of God’s righteousness and the condemnation of sin that his sacrifice demonstrated.

The principles of God’s righteousness and the condemnation of sin demonstrated in the sacrifice of Christ are doctrinal facts with moral principles that we need to live by in faith. In essence we must be dead to sins and live unto righteousness, 1 Peter 2:24; Romans 6:2–14, James 2:14-26.

These principles we are to have faith in, include;

• God is completely right and just in sentencing all humans to mortality as a consequence of sin. No one has the right to eternal life and everyone is rightly related to death as mortals.

• God’s ways are just and right, but human ways are sinful.

• Our mortal nature is weak and brings and has no good in itself. People are naturally given to sin because of the natural impulses and tendencies to sin in mortal human nature. No one can become righteous by their own efforts as everyone will inevitably sin.

• We are completely dependent on God’s grace and mercy to be freed from sin and death by faith. No one can save themselves.

• Sin must be confessed and repented of; it cannot be excused or justified. We have no righteousness of our own. God gives his righteousness to us freely by his grace when we have faith.

• We must be changed and transformed by renewing our minds to be like God in righteousness and holiness. We must live by faith, following the principles of Christ’s sacrifice.

God forgives us for Christ’s sake by His grace. Through His teachings, He turns people away from sin and leads them to righteousness. It is through faith that the power of Christ’s sacrifice cleanses our conscience from dead works and helps us serve God in righteousness.

All of the Bible’s teaching about Christ’s sacrifice carries moral lessons for how we should live in faith to be dead to sin and alive to God in righteousness, Romans 1:1–11; 2:4; 2 Corinthians 5:14–15; Galatians 2:20; Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 1:14, 21–23; Acts 3:26; 13:38; 1 John 1:7–9; 2:12; Hebrews 10:14–18; Isaiah 53:12.

Christ Obtained Salvation for Himself to Obtain it for Us

God’s plan of salvation was to send His Son, Jesus, as our representative, as a mortal man with the same human nature as us and in needed of being saved from death. God’s purpose in him was to provide a way out of mortality, both for himself and for us, by dying and then being raised from the dead.

As our representative, Jesus was himself saved from mortality and raised to immortality through his sacrifice for us, so that we can be saved from sin and death in and through him by faith. Hebrews 9:12 says that Jesus obtained eternal redemption “through his own blood.” The word “redemption” here is a figure of speech meaning deliverance or salvation.

In Hebrews 9:12 (KJV), the words “for us” are not in the original Greek text. The Greek verb is in the middle voice, signifying a unique action where one performs something upon oneself, “having obtained in and for himself eternal redemption.” The purpose of Jesus’ sacrifice was to obtain eternal redemption (deliverance) for us, and he did so by obtaining it in and for himself as our representative.

The “holy place” in Hebrews 9:12 represents heaven, which Jesus could only enter after God made him immortal. Hebrews 9:24. It was “by means of his own blood”, through his sacrifice, that Jesus obtained eternal redemption for himself in order to obtain it for us.

As our representative, Jesus opened the way to salvation from sin and death to immortality for those who have faith in his sacrifice. Symbolically, believers also enter the holy place — eternal life — “by the blood of Jesus” through “faith in his blood” Romans 3:25. Jesus opened a new and living way for us by opening the way through the curtain (the veil) that blocked the way to immortality. The veil represents “his flesh” or mortal human nature, Hebrews 10:19–23; Matthew 27:50–52; Mark 15:37–38,

Other supporting scriptures include Hebrews 9:12, 24; 13:20; 2:9; 5:7–9; 4:14–15; 12:2; Romans 1:1–4; 5:17–19; 6:9; 8:17; 2 Corinthians 5:14–15; Philippians 2:5–9; 1 Peter 2:24.

Christ Obtained Redemption By His Own Blood Through Faith

Although Jesus was sinless and did not need to be reconciled to God or forgiven like we do, he still needed to be saved from his mortal human nature, with its impulses and tendencies to sin. Hebrews 9:12 explains that Jesus obtained redemption by means of his own blood, and Hebrews 13:20 says that God brought Jesus from the dead by the blood of the eternal covenant, which was his own.

In Hebrews 9:12 (KJV), the Greek verb is in the middle voice, signifying a unique action where one performs something upon oneself, “having obtained in and for himself eternal redemption.” The purpose of Jesus’ sacrifice was to obtain eternal redemption (deliverance) for us, and he did so by obtaining it in and for himself as our representative.

The shedding of Jesus’ blood is clearly associated with his own redemption and salvation from his mortal human nature, but blood shedding is only ever efficacious to save by faith in the principles it represents. Jesus’ shed blood was efficacious to redeem and save him from mortal human nature because he had complete faith in the principles that the shedding of his blood demonstrated, of God’s righteousness and the condemnation of sin. Literally, it was God who redeemed and saved Jesus from mortality “by means of his own blood” (Hebrews 9:12; 13:20), by raising him from the dead and giving him immortality because of his “faith in his blood” (Romans 3:25 KJV).

Throughout his life, Jesus showed his “faith in his blood” by living a life of perfect righteousness and obedience. His sacrificial death was the ultimate display of his faith in God’s righteousness and the condemnation of sin. Because of this, God could be right and just in raising Jesus from the dead and giving him immortal life, Romans 1:1–6; 5:19; 16:25–27; Acts 2:24; Philippians 2:8.

Jesus’ baptism was a symbolic act of faith to show that he was committed to carrying out God’s purpose in him. In his baptism, he identified himself by “faith in his blood” with the work he would complete through his sacrifice to “fulfil all righteousness” to the fullest extent in himself Matthew 3:15; Luke 12:50; Romans 3:25–26.

Jesus exhibited his “faith in his blood” by living out these principles literally by living a sinless life and then dying in public sacrifice to demonstrate God’s righteousness. We follow his example symbolically through baptism, to show our faith in these same principles.

Jesus’ obedience of faith, even to death on the cross, was his willing submission to God’s will that redemption for all humanity, including himself, is only through faith and identification with the principles of God’s righteousness and the condemnation of sin that his sacrifice demonstrated. As our representative and forerunner, Jesus experienced this process of sacrifice literally, whereas we experience it symbolically in baptism, Hebrews 9:12, 24; 13:20; 2:9; 5:7–9; 4:14–15; 12:2; Romans 1:1–4; 5:17–19; 6:9; 8:17; 2 Corinthians 5:14–15; Philippians 2:5–9; 1 Peter 2:24.

Christ Was Included in His Sacrifice

As our representative, Jesus could only obtain redemption for us if he also obtained it for himself. Jesus was included in the very sacrifice he made “for us.” In Hebrews 9:12, the Greek verb is in the middle voice, signifying a unique action where one performs something upon oneself, “having obtained in and for himself eternal redemption.” If Jesus had not obtained redemption for himself through his sacrifice, we could not obtain it in him as our representative. It was for himself that it might be for us.

Jesus was not disconnected from his own sacrifice. It was operative on himself first. To be our representative, he had to go through the process himself and be the first to benefit from it. Jesus needed to be delivered from mortal human nature, and the way God provided was through Jesus’ sacrificial death on the cross. That sacrificial death was for himself first, not for sins that he committed, but for deliverance from mortal human nature which he suffered in common with us.

As our representative, Jesus is the beginning of God’s new creation. He is the firstfruits of those who will be raised from the dead, the forerunner for us, the firstborn among many brothers and sisters, 2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 Corinthians 15:23; Hebrews 6:19–20; Romans 8:29. He became the starting point of eternal life for all who, by faith, are baptised into him and belong to him.

Jesus’ own salvation was necessary for our salvation. If he had not first been saved from death (Hebrews 5:7), if he had not first obtained eternal redemption for himself by his own sacrifice (Hebrews 9:12), there would be no hope for us. Our salvation depends on what Jesus achieved in himself. He overcame sin and death, and we share in his victory by uniting with him in faith. We do this through baptism, where we symbolically share in his death and resurrection, Hebrews 9:12, 24; 13:20; 2:9; 5:7–9; 4:14–15; 12:2; Romans 1:1–4; 5:17–19; 6:9; 8:17; 2 Corinthians 5:14–15; Philippians 2:5–9; 1 Peter 2:24, Zechariah 9:9 (KJV) (the margin offers the alternate translation “saving himself” instead of “having salvation”).

Baptism is Our Identification with Christ in Faith

Baptism is an act of faith and obedience. Through baptism, a believer accepts the Gospel, puts on Christ, and receives forgiveness of sins, Mark 16:16; Galatians 3:27; Acts 2:38; 10:48; 22:16; 1 Peter 3:18–21.

In baptism, we show our faith by identifying with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. We are united "with him" as our representative. Baptism shows that we are dying to sin and rising to live a new life in righteousness. Because Christ’s sacrifice is efficacious to save through our faith in the principles of God’s righteousness and the condemnation of sin, it teaches us powerful moral principles for us to live by in faith.

Romans 6:1–11 explains this clearly. It describes how we are:

• Baptised into Christ,

• Baptised into his death,

• Buried with him in baptism,

• United with him in death,

• United with him in resurrection,

• Crucified with him,

• Died with Christ,

• And now live with him.

This shows that baptism is about being joined with Christ in his death and resurrection so that we leave behind a life of sin and begin a new life dedicated to God, Romans 8:13–14; Galatians 2:20; 5:24–25; Ephesians 4:22–24; Philippians 3:8–11; Colossians 2:11–13; 3:9–10; 1 Peter 2:21–25.

Continued Remembrance of Christ’s Sacrifice in Faith

When we take part in the bread and wine, we also show our faith in the principles of Christ’s sacrifice. The bread represents his body, and the wine represents his blood, Romans 3:25 (KJV). By eating the bread and drinking the wine, we show his death and what it means.

Paul calls this an act of sharing or participating with Christ’s body and blood, 1 Corinthians 11:24–26; 10:16. Jesus said that by doing this, we abide in him, and he abides in us. This is how we have the hope of eternal life, John 6:51–58.

Adapted from extracts from various sources including “Redemption in Christ Jesus” by WF Barling, “A Declaration of the Truth Revealed in the Bible”, “The Christadelphian Instructor”, “The Nature of Man and the Sacrifice of Christ”, “The Blood of Christ”, “The Law of Moses”, “The Christadelphian Magazine” by Robert Roberts