What does the Jesus Christ cross mean?

Answer 1

The message of the Cross is that Jesus died on the cross to shed His Blood to forgive our sins.

1) What was revealed by God in Old Testament was:

According to the law almost all things are purified with blood: Heb 9:22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

---There is no remission of sins without the shedding of blood: Heb 9:22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

---The blood of animals could not take away sins: Heb 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins.

2) What God accomplished in the New Testament through the Cross was:

Christ shed His Blood on the cross: Heb 9:22 And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

Cleansing of all our sins by the Blood of Jesus: 1Jn 1:7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. Forgiveness of our sins through the Blood: Eph 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace;

Sanctification of people through the Blood of Jesus: Heb 13:12 Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate.

Justification by His Blood: Rom 5:9 Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

Propitiation was accomplished through the Blood of Jesus: Rom 3:25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood;

Redemption of our soul was accomplished through the Blood: Eph 1:7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace

We overcome Satan by the blood of Jesus: Rev 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

Redemption of our soul was accomplished: Rom 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, (Exo_13:13)

Jesus offered Himself as a sacrifice to put away our sins: Heb 9:26 He then would have had to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now, once at the end of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

Christ bore our sins: Heb 9:28 so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation.

Christ gave His life a ransom for all: Mat_20:28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."

To destroy the devil who had the power of death over us: Heb 2:14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

To release those who are under the bondage of the fear of death: Heb 2:15 and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

God demonstrated His righteousness: Rom 3:25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,

Christ brought us near to God: Eph 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. We obtained access to God the Father through the Cross: Eph 2:18 For through Him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father.

Reconciled all men to God through the Cross: Eph 2:16 and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.

Made peace with God through the blood of His cross: Col 1:20 and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. We can enter the Holiest with boldness: (Heb 10:19) Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,

We became members of the household of God: Eph 2:19 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God,

We becomes a dwelling place of God in the Spirit: Eph 2:22 in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Made a new covenant - Offered the Blood of the everlasting covenant: Heb 13:20 Now may the God of peace who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,

Jesus became the Mediator of the New Covenant: Heb 12:24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

Christ broken down the middle wall of separation between Jews and Gentiles through cross: Eph 2:14 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation,

God purchased the church of God with His own blood: Act 20:28 Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.