The Cross is …………..

Reference

▪ A place of ransom – Jesus made the payment for believers’ debt of sin.

Mark 10:45

I Timothy 2:6

Hebrews 9:15

▪ A place of substitution -- Jesus took the punishment that everyone deserves.

John 6:51

Romans 8:3

II Corinthians 5:21

▪ A place of propitiation – Jesus’ perfect sacrifice removed God’s punishment form those who believe.

Romans 3:25

▪ A place of victory – Jesus’ sacrifice defeated Satan’s hold on humanity.

John 3:14-15

John 8:28

John 12:31-32

John 18:32

▪ A place of beginning – Jesus’ shed blood began the church.

Acts 20:28

▪ A place of ending – Jesus’ sacrifice ended all other sacrifices for sin.

Hebrews 8-10

▪ A place of separation – Jesus’ death is the basis on which God sets apart a people to be a holy community.

I Peter 1:2

I Peter 18:25

I Peter 2:1-11

▪ A place of mediation – Jesus became mediator between sinful humanity and hold God.

Galatians 3:13

Galatians 3:19-20

▪ A place of reconciliation – Jesus reconciled God and sinners, and reconciled Jews and Gentiles.

Romans 5:8-11

II Corinthians 5:20-21

Ephesians 2:11-22

Colossians 1:21-22

Colossians 2:11-15

▪ A place of justification – Jesus’ death makes it possible for God to declare believers righteous before him.

Romans 3:21-31