Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition

LESSON 3 | GOD THE SON: JESUS, THE MESSIAH AND LORD OF ALL – HE DIED / 231

2. Picture

a. The Passover Lamb of the Exodus story (Exod. 12) where the life of an innocent sacrifice is substituted for the life (in the place of, instead of) of the other, cf. Exod. 12.11-13

b. The sacrifice of Isaac, where in the place of Isaac, a ram was substituted in place of, instead of Isaac, Gen. 22.13

3. Through his death, Jesus becomes our Paschal Lamb, the one whose own body absorbs and takes the punishment for our lawlessness, iniquity, and transgression, ( Christus Victum : Christ, the Victim for us).

a. 1 Cor. 5.7

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b. 1 Pet. 1.19-20

c. Rev. 5.12

T heology and E th i c s

D. Jesus died in order to destroy the devil and his work .

God had foretold that this seed would proceed from the woman, and that he would trample on the head of the devil. ~ Cyprian (c. 250, W), 5.553. Ibid . p. 594.

1. The biblical evidence

a. Ps. 68.18

b. Matt. 12.29

c. John 12.31-33