Understanding the value of Jesus' sacrifice

[DesertBerean]

Are you not familar with Romans? Jesus ' s victory is over death as well as sin. He was without sin...the wages of sin is death...as the one sinless human he did not deserve death...but he chose to give his life to break the power of death over us. Since the rest of us fall short of perfection, Jesus stands as our advocate (as Hebrews says) as the one who experienced the same temptations as we did yet didn't sin.

I don't try to understand it all, but that's what it is.

I just remembered where in Phillipines it says he emptied himself. Read Chapter 2:1-8. It cost Jesus as God to become a human. It wasn't a great thing at all to be like us.

[Truthseeker]

To be sure, if a Jew sacrifices, say, the first fruits of his harvest to God, he does not have those things anymore, but he does get something in exchange, including NOT getting punished.

That reminds me of the foundational act of economics, the trade. Say a buyer sees an apple he would like to have. The apple belongs to a seller. The buyer offers a dollar. Maybe the seller will take it in exchange for the apple. Now, the buyer can be said to sacrifice the dollar, and the seller the apple.

Don't forget, Jesus was flogged to within an inch of his life before the crucifixion.

I suspect whatever answers you get in this thread will all prove to be inadequate at best, because there are mysteries we may never understand.

[37818]

See Isaiah 53:6, 10, 12 and Psalm 22:1, 6, 16.

[eustilou]

Hello, I have a few questions about the sacrifice of Jesus:

What does it mean that God "gave" Jesus? (John 3:16) It appears more like God lent Jesus for 33 years and then He returned to the Father.

If I buy something precious with a diamond, and the seller smashes the diamond into pieces, then I take those smashed pieces and put them back together restoring the diamond as it was before... and I keep the diamond, what price did I pay for my purchase?

What is the permanency of Jesus' sacrifice? For God to have "given" something, it must have cost Him something... to lose something He doesn't have anymore.

What did it cost God to purchase us?

1 Corinthians 6:20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 7:23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men.

What is the value of suffering for 3 hours on a cross or being dead for 3 days in light of eternity? 3 hours or 3 days of suffering/death is infinitely negligible relative to eternity. Is it not so? What is missing from my understanding?

Scripture tells us the currency of the transaction happened with blood.

Acts 20:28 ... shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood.
Revelation 5:9 ...You were slain, and purchased for God with Your blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

We also know the blood is precious.

1 Peter 1:18-19 ... you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ

It seems like most in the church don't appreciate much the value of the blood. We take the gospel too lightly because we don't properly appreciate the weight of Jesus' sacrifice.
What value does the shed blood have if Jesus is alive in heaven with the Father?
What is the permanency of the sacrifice? What was sacrificed? What was lost? What was given up?
To sacrifice means to give something you will not have anymore.
If you receive back what you gave, what sacrifice is that?