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CHRIST DIED THAT WE MAY HAVE SPIRITUAL LIFE TO REPLACE SPIRITUAL DEATH IN ORDER FOR US TO ESCAPE DEATH PENALTY FOR SINS. WE CAN ALSO SAY CHRIST DIED TO MAKE US SINFREE.

CHRIST DIED THAT WE MAY HAVE SPIRITUAL LIFE TO REPLACE SPIRITUAL DEATH IN ORDER FOR US TO ESCAPE DEATH PENALTY FOR SINS. WE CAN ALSO SAY CHRIST DIED TO MAKE US SINFREE.
12. The Sacrificial Crucifixion shows that the crucifixion of Jesus by the Romans and Jews had spiritual realities behind it, realities that were a spiritual sacrifice. (1 Cor. 1:23, 24; 1 Cor. 2:2; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 5:2; 1 Cor. 5:7; Heb. 9:26; Heb. 10:12).
13. The Sacrificial Crucifixion is made up of two parts. The following chart illustrates.
14. When Jesus lived upon the earth He was a man of sorrows acquainted with grief showing that His whole life has sufferings for man’s sins in it. Isa. 53:3, 10.
15. The penalty He experienced on the cross was sufferings for man’s sins unto death. Heb. 2:9, 10; 1 Pet. 3:18.
16. This is the Penal Offering He made available on the cross to give man a consciousness of the infinite horribleness, and God’s hate for sin. 1 Pet. 4:1, 2.
17. It is this offering that evokes genuine repentance in man that God can forgive him. 2 Cor. 7:9-11.
18. In the Bible blood symbolizes Life. Lev. 17:11, 14; Deut. 12:23.
19. The blood offering is the gift of Life made available as a gift of God on the cross. Jn. 10:10, 11, 15; Jn. 
3:14-16; Rom. 6:23.

20. Life is an experience of the Love of God (called; a knowledge of God and Christ). Jn. 17:3.
21. It is this Life that is given to dwell in man as a substitute replacing spiritual death. Eph. 2:2, 5; 1 Jn. 3:15; Rom. 8:10, 11.
22. Christ died for us means that He died to bring us to God (thus ending our alienation from God), by making us become conscious of the horribleness of sin (through a consciousness of the sufferings of 
Christ given to our minds by the Spirit), that we may repent and believe to receive the gift of life in the heart in place of the idol values by Justification. (1 Pet. 2:24, 25; 1 Pet. 3:18; Rom. 8:6; Rom. 5:1

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