A PREDOMINANT SACRIFICE.

Centre verse(Hebrews 13:12)"Wherefore Jesus also,that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go therefore unto him without the camp bearing his reproach " TEXT: HEBREWS 13:8-15. A man was was conscripted as a soldier into the civil war in England to be involved in a prolonged military assault of Leicester. When he wanted to move ahead with his company, another asked to move in his place. According to the man,"He replaced me coming to the siege." As he was standing at the back of the guard, he was shot in the head by a species of firearm bullet. He gave up the ghost. That sacrifice saved the man from premature death for greater work for the kingdom of God. The same incident of exchange position that led to Christ death on the Cross of Calvary is seen in our today's text. Christ Jesus exchanged positions with us to bear the consequences of our sins and satisfy the judgment of God for our freedom. The Cross is therefore the single place God has selected to reach with the penitent sinners. The altar in our text represents the Cross where the sacrifice occurred. The altar is a place of sacrifice and communion with God. To scorn the only gathering place between God and man is to remove oneself from the only way of reconciliation. That would be equivalent to lose of everlasting life through Christ. Calvary is fulfilled once-for-all sacrifice that everyone has to embraced so as to reconciled to our creator. The Cross is the very center of our belief; It is the sum and substance of the Christian faith. Christ Jesus went to the Cross to bring about reconciliation for the fallen of man. Without this predominant sacrifice, man would have been eternally separated from God. The Cross of Christ is the permanent symbol and structure of Man's justification and redemption. REMEMBER THIS: The Cross crosses out condemnation. Further Bible verses: John 19:17,18; 1Peter 4:14.