Vindication
"This Jesus whom you crucified God has made both Lord and Christ". The injustice of Good Friday has been overturned by God's resurrection power on Easter Sunday.
Defeat of Evil Forces
The evil forces which resulted in Jesus' death have been defeated.
Christ as the new Way of Life
"I have been crucified with Christ, it is no longer I who live but Christ who loves within me." This statement from St. Paul indicates that the lordship of a Christian's life passes to Christ.
A expression of God's love for the world
"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son ..." (John 3:16). An expression of the depths to which God would go to express his love for the world. This can also be seen as a correction to the primitive understanding of God in the Old Testament that God's prevailing attitude towards humanity is wrath and anger and that he has an underlying desire to destroy us. Jesus came to save, not condemn.
Sacrifice for sin
Jesus died at Passover time - a time in Jewish tradition when God forgives sin. However, the monopoly on forgiveness was held by the Temple. Now Jesus has provided a new way - his sacrificial death has done for us what the Temple used to do for Jews. Jesus provides us full and unrestricted access to God in a way hat was barred in the past by the Temple's curtain.
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