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“To [take the weapon out of Satan’s hand], Christ took our sins on himself and suffered for them. When that happened, they could be used no more by the devil to destroy us. Taunt us? Yes. Mock us? Yes. But damn us? No. Christ bore the curse in our place. Try as he will, Satan cannot destroy us.”

“That’s who Jesus Christ is. He became the final Priest and the final Sacrifice. […] Therefore, he did not offer sacrifices for himself; he offered himself as the final sacrifice.”

“…he paid the highest price possible to give me the greatest gift possible.”

“[Propitiation] refers to the removal of God’s wrath by providing a substitute. The substitute is provided by God himself. The substitute, Jesus Christ, does not just cancel the wrath; he absorbs it and diverts it from us to himself. God’s wrath is just, and it was spent, not withdrawn.”

“This is why Jesus came to die. God meant to show the world that there is no sin and no evil too great that God cannot bring from it everlasting righteousness and joy. The very suffering that we caused became the hope of our salvation.”