“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness,
even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.”
(John 3: 14-15)
“And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.”
This He said, signifying by what death He would die. (John 12: 32-33)
He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself. (Hebrews 9: 26)
God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
(1 John 5: 11-12)
THE GREAT EXCHANGE
Jesus bore the wrath that we can pass from judgement
Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin
(Isaiah 53: 10)
And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins (1 John 2: 2)
For God did not appoint us to wrath,
but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep,
we should live together with Him. (1 Thessalonians 5: 9-10)
…wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead,
even Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come. (1 Thessalonians 1: 10)
…he who hears My word and believes
in Him who sent Me has everlasting life,
and shall not come into judgment,
but has passed from death into life. (John 5: 24)
Jesus was punished that we can be forgiven and justified
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
for He shall bear their iniquities.
(Isaiah 53: 11)
….who was delivered up for our trespasses
and raised for our justification. (Romans 4: 25 ESV)
Jesus was wounded that we can be healed
They pierced My hands and My feet;
I can count all My bones. (Psalm 22: 16-17)
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
(Isaiah 53: 4)
Jesus bore our sin that we can bear His righteousness
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
(Isaiah 53: 4-5)
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us,
that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5: 21)
…who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree,
that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—
by whose stripes you were healed. (1 Peter 2: 24)
Jesus died our death that we can live through Him
My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And My tongue clings to My jaws;
You have brought Me to the dust of death. (Psalm 22: 15)
Not with the blood of goats and calves,
but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all,
having obtained eternal redemption. (Hebrews 9: 12)
…even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ
(by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together,
and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus
(Ephesians 2: 5-6)
Jesus was made a curse that we can receive His blessings
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law,
having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)
(Galatians 3: 13)
….who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.. (Ephesians 1: 3)
Jesus became poor that we can receive His abundance
…though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor,
that you through His poverty might become rich.
(2 Corinthians 8: 9)
Jesus carried our shame that we can share His glory
But I am a worm, and no man;
A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
All those who see Me ridicule Me;
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head (Psalm 22: 6-7)
He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
(Isaiah 53: 3)
When Christ who is our life appears,
then you also will appear with Him in glory. (Colossians 3: 4)
Jesus was rejected that we can be accepted
And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying,
“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
(Matthew 27: 46)
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off
have been brought near by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2: 13)
And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works,
yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death,
to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight
(Colossians 1: 21-22)
He made us accepted in the Beloved. (Ephesians 1: 6)
Jesus was cut off by death that we can be joined to God
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken. (Isaiah 53: 8)
For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust,
that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh
but made alive by the Spirit (1 Peter 3: 18)
…that through death He might destroy him
who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
and release those who through fear of death
were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Hebrews 2: 14-15)
But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels,
for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor,
that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone. (Hebrews 2: 9)
Our old man was put to death in Him that we can walk in newness in Him
He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself (Ephesians 1: 4-5)
…who gave Himself for our sins,
that He might deliver us from this present evil age,
(Galatians 1: 4)
…who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed
and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works. (Titus 2: 14)
reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6: 11)
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners (1 Timothy 1: 15)
But God demonstrates His own love toward us,
in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5: 8)
In this the love of God was manifested toward us,
that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world,
that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God,
but that He loved us and sent His Son
to be the propitiation for our sins. (1 John 4: 9-10)
For to this end Christ died and rose and lived again,
that He might be Lord of both the dead and the living. (Romans 14: 9)
LIFE ON THE ALTAR 