The Sacrifice of Jesus Christ

Is God a “bloody God”?

In this article, I want to focus on the definition of a “sacrifice.” We will examine what it was that Jesus sacrificed, what were the benefits to him (and thereby to us) for his doing so, and what it will look like for us to follow in his steps. I think it will become clear that we too should be making sacrifices in our own lives for the good of others.

1 Corinthians 5:7 and 8 (NKJV) [1]
(7) Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
(8) Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

There is much figurative language in the above verses, but the point I want us to notice here is that the truth in verse 7—that Jesus gave his life for our sins—is the basis for the action that verse 8 encourages us to take—to live our lives with sincerity and truth. As Scripture says, Jesus Christ is the example for each of us, and we are therefore to walk in his steps (1 Pet. 2:21). Let us look at a contemporary dictionary definition of sacrifice: “The surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.”

Now that is provocative. Think about it—this connotes a value system in which one thing, while deemed valuable and thus not easily let go of, is not considered as valuable as another thing in one’s overall estimation. This involves the exercise of one’s free will and the power we each have to make choices.

What was Jesus called to sacrifice? His very life. Psalm 22 prophetically depicts the crucifixion, resurrection, and exaltation of the Messiah, with the first 18 verses pointing to his torture and death, and the last 10 verses pointing to his resurrection and his reign in the Millennial Kingdom. In between are the following pivotal verses, which poignantly foreshadow his crying out to God for deliverance from the grave.

Psalm 22:19-21 (NKJV)
(19) But You, O LORD, do not be far from Me; O My Strength, hasten to help Me!
(20) Deliver Me from the sword, My precious life from the power of the dog.
(21) Save Me from the lion’s mouth And from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered Me. [For further study on Psalm 22 and how it relates to the crucifixion, click here.]

In that vein, it is noteworthy to compare the attitude of Socrates just prior to his death with that of Jesus Christ before his impending torture and execution. Socrates threw a party, gathering his friends to help him celebrate his exodus from this life via drinking the poison hemlock. Jesus, on the other hand, agonized alone in the Garden of Gethsemane to such an extent that the Greek text says he was “crushed with anguish” (Luke 22:44-NKJV “being in agony”).

Why the stark difference in their attitudes? Was it because Socrates had a better understanding of life than Jesus did? No, it was because Jesus had a truer understanding of death than did Socrates. Socrates erroneously believed what many people today believe (even most Christians), that death is the immediate “doorway” to a better life in some other realm.

Jesus Christ, however, knew the truth that death, as accurately defined in the Word of God, is “the end, or the absence of, life.” [2] By definition, one cannot be both dead and alive. Jesus knew that if he chose to step into the theretofore unbridged abyss of death, the only way back to life would be via his heavenly Father keeping His promise to raise him from the dead (Gen. 22:1-13; Ps. 16:10). That is why, in absolute contrast to Socrates, Jesus’ decision to sacrifice his life was not a flippant one.

What were the promised benefits that motivated Jesus Christ to lay down his precious life, which was most definitely “something prized or desirable” to him. What was the stupendous “something [that he] considered as having a higher or more pressing claim” compared to the preservation of his own life? The following verses answer that question:

Hebrews 12:1 and 2
(1) Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
(2) Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The “joy set before” Jesus was the great truth woven throughout the Old Testament that if he would go the distance as the only man who could live a sinless life and die a torturous death as the true Passover Lamb, he would be raised to newness of life, and so would all those who ever believed on him. He would reign over the world for a thousand years and later rule as second-in-command to God on a new earth, enjoying everlasting life with all the redeemed throughout the ages.

Because Jesus knew who he was, and that there was no one else who could do what he was called to do, he chose to walk the path set before him, which called for him to sacrifice his life. Now you and I are members in particular of the Body of Christ, representing him in this fallen world. So who are you? What are you called to sacrifice? And how will that look, behaviorally speaking? What will the benefits be to you for so doing?

For you and me as Christians, the Church Epistles are where we find our identity, our purpose, and our destiny. There is much relevant truth in the Old Testament, the Gospels, and elsewhere in Scripture, but for it to be applicable to our lives, it must fit with, and cannot contradict, the truth found in Romans through Thessalonians. In fact, a precise knowledge of the curriculum found in the Church Epistles is the only basis for extracting and applying the many other great truths found all through the Bible.

Only in the Church Epistles do we find who we are in Christ, and, in the context of this article, that is our basis for understanding that we can “lay down our lives” (behaviorally speaking, in our relationships with others) with the assurance that what we are laying down (sacrificing, giving up, putting to death) are the selfish aspects of the old nature that dwells within us (Rom. 7:18). This “death” of our old self—our false self, if you will—is the only way to real life, that is, living according to our new and true nature, which is designed by God to revel in putting others before ourselves. Each of us can “get our kicks” only from walking according to the new nature within us. You can see that in Romans 7:22-NKJV (“For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man”) where the root Greek word translated “delight” is hedomai, from which we get the English word “hedonism,” meaning “pleasure for pleasure’s sake.”

The Word of God is clear that in His sight you are dead to sin and alive in Christ. When God looks at you, He sees you as completely righteous in Christ. Each of us is thus equipped to practically live out this truth by putting to death whatever belongs to our earthly nature (Col. 3:5). Whenever we do, we find newness of life. Consider the following verses, which are foundational to understanding our unshakeable righteousness and our ability to walk in newness of life:

Romans 6:3-7
(3) Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
(4) We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
(5) If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.
(6) For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin—
(7) because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

So what do the Church Epistles have to say about sacrifice? As we consider that question, we should expect whatever we find to flow in line with the principles of Christ’s sacrifice, because we are to follow in his steps.

Romans 12:1 and 2 (NASB) [3]
(1) I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
(2) And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

What?! Do I detect a flaming oxymoron? What on earth is a “living sacrifice” when, by definition, a “sacrifice” is dead? This obvious figure of speech is designed to arrest our attention and reinforce to us the aforementioned truth that sacrificing the selfish aspects of our sin nature is the only way to really live life and love people as God desires us to.

No doubt you are familiar with the following exhortation from Jesus himself:

John 15:12 and 13
(12) My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
(13) Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

This same truth is echoed in Ephesians, where we find another use of the word “sacrifice.”

Ephesians 5:1 and 2
(1) Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children
(2) and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

As Jesus vividly demonstrated, true love requires, and is evidenced by, sacrificing some of what we want for the benefit of others with whom we are in relationship. Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice on the Cross, and that is why we can follow suit by “dying to self” (see Luke 9:23 and 24) day by day, for his sake. Hebrews 2:15 speaks of people who all their lives are subject to bondage because of their fear of death. Death is always equated with loss, and the fear of losing something deemed valuable is what often drives people. If we grasp the truth in the following verses—that our real life is secure in Christ—we will more joyously lay down/give up those less valuable elements of our selves.

Colossians 3:1-4
(1) Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God.
(2) Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
(3) For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.
(4) When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

So what are some ways that we as followers of the Lord Jesus Christ can lay down our lives for our friends (and other people)? First of all, doing something for someone else is in the category of “service,” and the following verse clearly equates sacrifice and service:

Philippians 2:17
But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

Paul’s heart was like that of Jesus Christ. He understood that pouring out his life in service to others was a key to his own joy. How can we pour out our lives to others? One way is to share the Word of God with them. Another is to pray for them. Another is to be there for them in times of trial. Think about an exhausted mother staying up through the night with a sick baby, or a faithful husband caring day after day for his aging wife beset with Alzheimer’s, or a pastor sitting with an ailing friend. Sacrificing ourselves like that for others is showing them true love.

All of these things require that, in a healthy way, we set aside our own needs and wants and take our time for another person. We could also “lay down our lives” for others by sharing with them some of our money or material things, which we have as a result of taking time to work. Look at the following verse:

Philippians 4:18
I have received full payment and even more; I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

I assert that the wellspring of our being able to pour out our lives to others is our personal intimacy with our God and with our Lord Jesus (2 Tim. 4:17, etc.). Strengthening that relationship requires sacrifice on our part, that is, laying down anything in us that stands between us and them. And each of us has a lot of “stuff” in our sin nature that relentlessly tries to hinder our relationship with God by getting us to hold on to our selfish desires at the expense of having something greater from our Father. Consider the following verse, written by David following his sin with Bathsheba:

Psalm 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

When we give up our pride, our arrogance, our defense mechanisms, and our infernal Adamic shucking and jiving, and just “get naked” before our Father and our Lord, they sweep us up in their arms and infuse us with newness of life in whatever way we need it.

I believe this is what Paul is talking about in the following two sections of Scripture—that when each of us sacrifices our old self by subjugating our will to God’s in a particular situation (usually involving other people), we identify with the death of Jesus Christ, and thus with his resurrection also, as his life within us is manifest in our lives.

2 Corinthians 4:10 and 11 (NKJV)
(10) always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.
(11) For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

Philippians 3:10 and 11
(10) I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
(11) and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from [ek=out from among] the dead.

Paul is assured of attaining his physical resurrection at the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ, but I think this verse also speaks figuratively of the newness of life we receive from God when we choose to “die to self” in our daily interactions with others. Not all Christians make this choice, and this is indicated by the preposition ek, which shows that only those who do so receive this “resurrection.”

In regard to our personal relationship with our Father and our Lord as the bedrock of our lives, let us note one other use of the word “sacrifice” that I think is most pertinent.

Hebrews 13:15 (KJV)
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Praising (and worshiping) God and the Lord Jesus is vital to our spiritual well being because it orients us to them as the source of all that we need. When we exalt God and Christ, our focus shifts from our own needs to their fathomless sufficiency. When we choose to praise our God and our Lord, we are sacrificing whatever else we could be doing with our minds and hearts, and showing them our love and gratitude. This is especially true if we do not feel like praising. Of course, speaking in tongues is a primary way each Christian can give thanks well (1 Cor. 14:17-NKJV).

It is the magnanimous sacrifice of Jesus Christ that has made it possible for you and me to experience the joy of walking in his steps. He is with us, closer than our breath, each step of the way, and he is ready, willing, and able to work within us to make us like him. Because of what he did, all the way through the Cross, you are now righteous, justified, sanctified, and able to manifest his heart to a dying world. Let’s allow the Word to speak in closing this article.

Hebrews 10:9-14
(9) Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets aside the first to establish the second.
(10) And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
(11) Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.
(12) But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.
(13) Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool,
(14) because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

Colossians 2

9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh[b] was put off when you were circumcised by[c] Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

http://www.naturalnews.com/039065_Christopher_Dorner_LAPD_cover-up.html

The LAPD has pulled a Waco. Barely two hours after ordering the media to remove their helicopters from the area and cut all live feeds, the LAPD managed to set fire to the cabin occupied by Christopher Dorner and burn him alive inside it, according to media reports. Mission accomplished for the LAPD, an organization that has run its manhunt more like a rampaging street gang than a professional police department. As Natural News has already documented, LAPD officers have engaged in attempted murder of innocent citizens in their freakish frenzy to try to kill Dorner. Their motive explains why LAPD officers fired tear gas into the cabin where Dorner was staying, knowing it would ignite flammable materials in the home and set the place on fire. “…tear gas was fired into the house before the fire broke out,” reports the Los Angeles CBS affiliate. This is the same sort of tactic that was used to burn down the Branch Davidian community in Waco, Texas in 1993. The Waco raid, we all know by now, was a politically-motivated ATF assault against innocent men, women and children, all conducted for the purpose of increasing the visibility and importance of the ATF by creating a crisis where none existed. Law enforcement knows full well that tear gas rounds often set homes ablaze. In fact, a California fire department issued a report in 2012 that supports precisely that conclusion. So here’s what we know:

1) The LAPD engaged in a wild, frenzied attempt to execute Dorner. This resulted in LAPD officers engaging in the attempted murder of innocent civilians, including one surfer and two women in a pickup truck. (Question: Why are LAPD officers who shot at innocent citizens not being charged with attempted murder?)
2) Once Dorner was holed up in a cabin, the LAPD chose to fire tear gas canisters into the home instead of waiting him out and forcing a surrender after a long standoff.
3) LAPD officers know full well that tear gas canisters can set off fires.
4) Once the fire broke out, Dorner was a dead man. If he fled the fire, he would be shot down by the LAPD. If he stayed in the cabin, he would be burned alive. This is the new brand of “justice” the LAPD is dishing out in 2013.

I’m not condoning the actions of Dorner, who appears to have murdered at least four victims. But if the LAPD is going to abandon its mission of public safety and function as an armed vigilante justice squad, dishing out death sentences to those it believes are guilty — without a trial or anything resembling due process — then they might as well throw away all their badges as just call themselves the LA Gang Squad. Because that’s how they’re acting. They can even have their own gang signs that they flash at each other before running another taxpayer-funded drive-by. Whether Dorner is really dead at this point or somehow managed to escape the fire (a possibility that has been reported), he has accomplished one astonishing thing that even the media could not achieve: The exposing of the total criminality of the LAPD and its complete abandonment of law. Even if Dorner is dead, the LAPD still comes out of this looking not only utterly incompetent but — even worse — driven by vengeance rather than law. As every citizen reading this can easily recognize, that’s a very dangerous attitude for a police force to carry. In this frenzied manhunt, the whole world watched while the LAPD exposed itself as a gang of reckless idiots who openly fire their guns at innocent civilians and who ram citizens’ vehicles with their police cars in acts of sheer madness and desperation. “These lunatics broadsided the side of his truck, spun him around and started shooting at him,” said the attorney for one of the victims of the LAPD murder attempts. The Torrance Police Department, which seems to have abandoned all reason and logic just as the LAPD has done, explained that “Perdue’s truck was ‘suddenly leaving the area’ and seemingly veering into a patrol car when the two vehicles collided at 5:15 a.m.” So now, pulling out of a driveway or simply starting your car and driving away can be interpreted as “suddenly leaving the area,” earning you an attempted vehicular manslaughter maneuver by the local police. How’s that for public safety, eh?

Consider the actual risk of harm here: Dorner did not engage in RANDOM killings. Want proof? He did not kill his hostages. He let them live because they weren’t on his kill list. And yet the LAPD did, indeed, engage in random acts of attempted murder. Morally and ethically speaking, the LAPD was operating in worse violation than Dorner himself. Killing people who have wronged you is evil, but attempting to kill innocent people who have nothing to do with anything is even worse, and that’s what the LAPD did.
In fact, if you really look at the situation in retrospect, a typical LA citizen was far more likely to be killed by the LAPD than by Chris Dorner. Dorner was a selective killer while the LAPD attempted to kill people indiscriminately… seemingly at random. If you weren’t on Chris Dorner’s kill list, you had nothing to fear from Dorner. But if you were a black man with a bald head, you had everything to fear from the LAPD! And they proved it by opening fire on not just one innocent person, nor two, but THREE innocent citizens who didn’t even resemble Dorner (two of the victims were women, the third was a thin white guy). No wonder the LAPD was so desperately trying to murder Dorner on sight: the man knew too much. He had seen the inside operations of the LAPD, and he recognized what a runaway criminal operation it was. None of this justifies Dorner’s actions, of course. Making a kill list and murdering people is no way to handle things in a civilized country… unless, of course, you’re President Barack Obama, in which case you get a bunch of DoJ lawyers to issue a 16-page memo “legalizing” your own private kill list that “authorizes” the murder of American citizens. That’s where Obama and Dorner are a lot alike: They both believe in the use of violence, outside of law, to kill their enemies. Obama uses armed drones while Dorner used a rifle. Both of them are criminals who operate outside the law, and the only reason Dorner isn’t a national hero right now is because he didn’t have an army of lawyers working at the DoJ who could sanitize his activities by shoveling lawyerspeak manure all over the place. Dorner also forgot to call his actions “peace.” See, if you kill a bunch of Americans without calling it “peace,” then you get chased by the police. But if you call it “peace,” as Obama does, you win a Nobel Peace Prize. And then the bombs you drop on children in the Middle East are called “peace bombs.”
Dorner’s mistake in all this was not that he killed people, you see, it’s that he didn’t get enough voters to back him first. Once you get the voters behind you, you can kill anybody you want, with no legal recourse whatsoever. That’s the precedent recently set by the White House, anyway.

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10 Who shapes a god and casts an idol,
which can profit nothing?
11 People who do that will be put to shame;
such craftsmen are only human beings.
Let them all come together and take their stand;
they will be brought down to terror and shame.
12 The blacksmith takes a tool
and works with it in the coals;
he shapes an idol with hammers,
he forges it with the might of his arm.
He gets hungry and loses his strength;
he drinks no water and grows faint.
13 The carpenter measures with a line
and makes an outline with a marker;
he roughs it out with chisels
and marks it with compasses.
He shapes it in human form,
human form in all its glory,
that it may dwell in a shrine.
14 He cut down cedars,
or perhaps took a cypress or oak.
He let it grow among the trees of the forest,
or planted a pine, and the rain made it grow.
15 It is used as fuel for burning;
some of it he takes and warms himself,
he kindles a fire and bakes bread.
But he also fashions a god and worships it;
he makes an idol and bows down to it.
16 Half of the wood he burns in the fire;
over it he prepares his meal,
he roasts his meat and eats his fill.
He also warms himself and says,
“Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”
17 From the rest he makes a god, his idol;
he bows down to it and worships.
He prays to it and says,
“Save me! You are my god!”
18 They know nothing, they understand nothing;
their eyes are plastered over so they cannot see,
and their minds closed so they cannot understand.
19 No one stops to think,
no one has the knowledge or understanding to say,
“Half of it I used for fuel;
I even baked bread over its coals,
I roasted meat and I ate.
Shall I make a detestable thing from what is left?
Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
20 Such a person feeds on ashes; a deluded heart misleads him;
he cannot save himself, or say,
“Is not this thing in my right hand a lie?”

A lovely Ash Wednesday to you and you………and they too….
Unno memba when dem call fi Flexx when him did deh pan di tour whey him did a do wid Mavado and talk bout dem want him fi questioning? I was a wonder how Flex reach pan tour and neva have no big hit song…..but anyhoot as Flex spin roun suh Mr Gully come pan public radio come seh him and di man neva deh pan no tour? Ah from dem times deh tings did a gwaan and him disown Flex becauseeeeeeee Flex was one of the recipients of the visa……..so dem call fi FLEX and a return to sender gwaan………It was posted here seh dem visa tek whey but mi neva know Flex did confirm up.. All dem bands man name Bassie visa embassy tek whey……..Remember Stacious was saving har best for Mr. Gully…………..all she get visa and it tek whey…suh mi waa know if a di fretrayshan bring down Stacious because all now she cannot talk bout di big diet secret….Di man line up di whole a GULLYSQUAD march dem up a embassy and now not one a dem can fly and may never fly again because a dis mixup…Den now memba seh dem did send Fox..fi go pay off di man and it bus whey ina di news…Di people dem seh from dat Fox nuh mek no light ketch him a Kingston…A Mobay him stuck ..When di whole heep a warring all wid Savage and ting…a di visa matter dem did a war neatly over but dem cuden come upfront an seh wha a gwaan kaw dem shame
From Drake did drap a Jamaica di whole a gullyside ketch farrin fever…..so much so dat …….( dis is no new news to JMG) di big man..unno know who mi a talk run up ina Drake and song writing gwaan…. song bus big but a only one time fee charge…………Drake doe go back a JA since….di bees tell di man seh people a talk up…
Now the night of Connie’s death, dem all seh Connie and Lena British did ina tings….but dat is besides this point…Dem seh Killa tell di young man …mi mean di big man……..Mr GULLY.. seh him only giving him 9 tickets fi him people dem and nuh carry no bag a man…him carry di bag a man..dem waa guh ina di party…box di police man di man draw him gun…………kill Connie dead……..Memba seh Flex sing seh Connie was a sacrifice ? Di people dem seh dem nuh know why him a hype bout Connie and yuh neva hear him mention Connie before him dead….. but mi nuh tink no sacrifice gwaan because in dat case all dem yah news yah whey a land wudden did happen…NO COVERAGE OO unless dat sacrificial lamb need back up