Quotes About Atonement

Substitution is always twofold—not only is Jesus Christ identified with my sin, but I am so identified with Him that the disposition which ruled Him is in me.

The Atonement of Jesus has to work out in practical, unobtrusive ways in my life. Every time I obey, absolute Deity is on my side, so that the grace of God and natural obedience coincide. Obedience means that I have banked everything on the Atonement, and my obedience is met immediately by the delight of the supernatural grace of God.

In our mental outlook we have to reconcile ourselves to the fact of sin as the only explanation as to why Jesus Christ came, and the explanation of the grief and sorrow in life.

God forgives sin only because of the death of Christ. God could forgive people in no other way than by the death of His Son, and Jesus is exalted as Savior because of His death.

The Cross was the place where God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision and where the way to life was opened. But all the cost and pain of the collision was absorbed by the heart of God.

He forgives sin, and it is the death of Jesus Christ alone that enables the divine nature to forgive and to remain true to itself in doing so. It is shallow nonsense to say that God forgives us because He is love.

Jesus said, "Judge not, that you be not judged" (Matthew 7:1). He went on to say, in effect, "If you do judge, you will be judged in exactly the same way." Who of us would dare to stand before God and say, "My God, judge me as I have judged others"? We have judged others as sinners—if God should judge us in the same way, we would be condemned to hell. Yet God judges us on the basis of the miraculous atonement by the Cross of Christ.

As a saved soul, the real business of your life is intercessory prayer. Whatever circumstances God may place you in, always pray immediately that His atonement may be recognized and as fully understood in the lives of others as it has been in yours. Pray for your friends now, and pray for those with whom you come in contact now.

the New Testament view is that He took our sin on Himself not because of sympathy, but because of His identification with us.

When Jesus Christ started His public ministry, the very first work accomplished by Him was the work of taking-on all our sins by receiving baptism in the Jordan River.

Through the last High Priest called John the Baptist, who was the representative of all humankind, Jesus took-on all the sins of all people.

All our sins, those committed in our childhood to those committed in adulthood and to the day we die, were completely passed onto the body of Jesus and were condemned. It is because all our sins were

taken-on all the sins of the world when He was baptized. When Jesus received the punishment of crucifixion

The Lamb mentioned here is in expression of Jesus as the lamb who, as our substitute, became the

Of course, when someone spends 5-10 minutes confessing all the sins that he ever wanted to confess, asks God to forgive him, and thinks about the precious blood that Jesus shed on the Cross, then it may seem as if all his sins were indeed washed away. However, for those who believe like this, their sins never disappear, but only continue on piling up in their hearts.

This Jesus came to this earth as the Savior, and by receiving baptism from John the Baptist and being crucified on the Cross to shed His blood, He has through this forever washed away all our sins. Therefore

Because in A.D. 30, Jesus took-on the sins of the world completely by receiving baptism from John the Baptist, John the Baptist pointed out Jesus the next day and said

After having passed-on all our sins onto Jesus, John the Baptist bore witness to this by saying

it was John the Baptist who testified, "Having taken-on the sins of the world by His baptism, Jesus carried them all away to the Cross.

In order to atone for all of our sins, Jesus took-on all the sins of the world through the baptism He had received from John the Baptist.

In addition, John bore witness to the fact that he had passed-on all the sins of the world by baptizing Jesus. In other words, through his witness, John the Baptist made us know about the salvation through the atonement for sins.

God had them offer sacrifices where the High Priest would pass-on the sins of the people by laying both his of hands on the head of a scapegoat, and then through the death of this unblemished sacrificial offering instead of these sinful people, atoned for their sins.

This age of the Law came to an end with the onset of the age of grace that is, when Jesus' received His baptism. All salvation promised by the atonement for sins during the Old Testament era came to an end with the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist. Thus,through His baptism and the shedding of His blood, the sins of all humankind were remitted, and salvation from sin was perfectly completely.

and shedding His blood unto death on the Cross and being rising from the dead in three days; only through all this did Jesus become the everlasting Savior God.