Quotes About Sacrifice

Through all the ages to come, the Indian church will rise up in gratitude to attest to the heroism and self-denying labors of the missionary body. You have given your goods to feed the poor; you have given your bodies to be burned. We also ask for love. Give us friends."3

A veteran leader of an agency working among Muslims read my report, and he reflected: "The Nigerians remind me of how older generations went out. Today, I spend hours and hours on evacuation policies, hostage policies, and insurance policies. In the old days, we just went and died.

For many of us, following Jesus in this world will not require literally dying. But it might require downsizing our lifestyle. It might mean taking vacation time to go on a short-term mission trip when we could be just relaxing. In any case, it's all about identifying with Jesus and saying, in light of the Great Salvation, "Jesus, I want to go where you're going and where you want to bring me.

Genuine servanthood. Too often, we who go to serve on crosscultural short-term missions practice self-congratulatory servanthood. We live in the hut, eat the local food, endure the heat and use the squat toilet, all the time quietly congratulating ourselves on our willingness to serve.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

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.

This is why Jesus Christ, as He went about His ministry for 3 years, meant as an example when He by seeing an adulterous woman said, "Even I do not condemn you. Even I cannot pass judgment on you. I must receive your judgment. I must die on the Cross in your place.

by being baptized by John the Baptist, shedding His blood by dying on the Cross, and through this saved all the sinners of the world from their sins.

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

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.

Because of John the Baptist witness and those who are faithful, it becomes possible for humankind to believe that the baptism Jesus received was the baptism of taking-on the sins of all humanity; and because of this, Jesus had to shed His precious blood on 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.

But despite this the grace of God had Mary enjoy honor and glory, instead of having to bear the agonies of the flesh. After confessing her faith, Mary started to show.

Priest. In like manner, Jesus accepted all the sins of this world 'once and for al'l through the baptism

the Baptist placed both his hands on Jesus' head was to pass-on all the sins of the world.

fire of hell, but now that our sins were passed-onto Jesus through our faith in His baptism, Jesus had to die for our sins in our place.

that were so, then Jesus died without having taken-on all your sins through His baptism. Do

Representing all of mankind - John the Baptist passed-on all the sins onto Jesus. This is how Jesus received His baptism from John the Baptist.

In the Old Testament when a sinner passed-on his sins onto a goat through the laying on of hands, those sins were passed over onto the goat, and the goat had to suffer death in order to atone for those sins instead of the sinner.

Yes, this is true. Jesus has saved us by taking-on your sins as well as mine through His baptism He had received from John the Baptist, dying on the Cross and paying the full price for them, and then being resurrected from the dead.

He passed-on all the sins of the world onto Jesus by His baptism. This was the way of making us prepare the way to Heaven by having us receive the remission of sins