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Amazing Facts

Doug Batchelor

The Supreme Sacrifice

This presentation is brought to you by the Friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.

Can you imagine stepping into the line of fire on the battlefield to save your enemy?

On November 12, 1944, German Lieutenant Frederick Lingfield heard the desperate cries of a wounded American soldier who had been shot down in the midst of a German minefield.

He ordered his men not to fire upon any rescuers.

But as time slipped by, no Allied medics came to the aid of the injured man.

That's when Lingfield decided to help the enemy soldier himself.

After organizing a rescue squad, he stepped out into the danger to assist his enemy.

He was injured by an exploding mine and died several hours later.

In 1994, a group of American veterans erected a memorial to honor his act of self-sacrifice.

It's always moving when we hear about people who risk their lives to help a stranger in need.

But you know, Jesus risked much more to save his enemies when he came to this world.

Even knowing that he'd be hated, rejected, and persecuted, and ultimately killed, did not hinder him.

Join me now as we take a deeper look at this transformational subject.

Tonight's presentation is among the most important, and it's dealing with the subject of the supreme sacrifice.

You know, this is what we're going to do tonight, is we're going to spend some time beholding the Lamb, and it is a prophetic theme.

Some people come to a seminar like this and say, Pastor Doug, I didn't come to talk about Jesus and salvation.

I want to know about the Beast and the Antichrist and Armageddon and 666.

Well, you know, This is the theme of prophecy.

If you look in Revelation chapter 5, it talks about a lamb that had been slain that's in the midst of the throne.

And throughout the book of Revelation, Jesus is referred to the lamb.

And unless we know who that lamb is, you know, we're gonna miss out on everything.

The purpose of all Bible prophecy is redemptive.

God's prophecies are not just to entertain us that he can foretell the future.

The reason he has these prophecies is so that we can be saved.

What good is it to you if you understand what the beast is and 666 and the Antichrist and the mark of the beast and you even know the date and the hour of Christ's coming?

If you're not saved, what good does it do you?

What good is it if you gain the whole world and lose your soul?

You might think well, I just you know, I want this knowledge.

Well, the devil knows more than anybody here.

It's not going to save him What you ultimately need to know is Jesus a relationship with him All the prophecies are pointing towards that.

So we're not really being honest or fair with you if we're just teaching Bible trivia and prophecy trivia, and we're not talking about the central theme of prophecy, which is Christ.

Now, when you open the book of Revelation, who knows what the first line in Revelation says?

The revelation of the Antichrist, the revelation of the beast, the revelation of Armageddon, Millennium, secret rapture 2 witnesses.

They're all in the book, but that's not what it's talking about.

And in the first chapter, Jesus appears and he's being revealed in these prophecies.

So Tonight we're going to be talking about what the prophecies have to say about Jesus.

Is Jesus the only way to be saved and the importance of eternal life?

First question, why was it necessary for Jesus to die?

You read in Romans chapter 3 verse 23, for all have sin.

In fact, this planet has been pretty much quarantined from the rest of the cosmos, the universe, because we've got a deadly disease.

Sin hurts you, sin hurts your neighbor, sin hurts God, and sin is selfishness, and it just basically self-destructs.

You might be thinking, well, then why aren't we dead yet, since we've all sinned?

Because through the sacrifice of Jesus, he not only bought the opportunity for people to find everlasting life, but every person has been provided with probationary time.

The Lord has bought us an extension to make a different choice.

He's bought us probationary time to say, I don't want to live for myself, I want to live for God.

You can see here also in Hebrews chapter 9 verse 22, without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

The word remission means there is no forgiveness without the shedding of blood.

The Bible tells us the life is in the blood, and all creatures need blood.

I remember reading a few years ago, and it's also very relevant today, when they had that Ebola outbreak there in Africa and you know COVID is very serious but the survival rate is a whole lot better than Ebola and some of you remember that there was this nurse William Pooley he contracted Ebola nearly died but he survived but because he survived in his body he had the antibodies that were very rare because there were very few survivors.

And the antibodies were basically a life serum, and he flew to other parts of the world to give transfusions to save other people.

Who knows what the first miracle of Jesus was?

There at the Last Supper, Jesus gave them the cup of grape juice.

This is my blood that is shed for you for the remission of sin.

He said, except you eat my flesh and drink my blood.

And he doesn't literally want us drinking blood, you all know that.

It's talking about having his life go in us.

What's the last thing that Jesus did before he died on the cross?

People offered him sour wine on a sponge.

So there at the wedding feast, Jesus, first miracle, he provides pure grape juice.

Then the last thing he does is he takes sour wine from man.

Jesus gave the human race a blood transfusion.

Basically, he took our badness and he gives us his goodness.

You can read also in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, verse 3, Christ died for the sins of the Jews.

Did he only die for the sins of those who choose to believe in him, or did he die for everybody?

Christ died for our sins because he loved us.

Sort of something like, if you can imagine if you will, a family that lives on a beautiful island out in the Pacific where it's tropical paradise and they've got an abundance of good food and fruits and clean water, family with 10 children, you know, it's like Robinson Crusoe with 10 children.

They're all having a wonderful time and the 1 of them, for some unexplicable reason, contracts a deadly, painful, fatal disease.

And the parents have to make a difficult decision because it's extremely contagious.

They know if that child stays on the island, it'll infect all the other children.

Wouldn't they be doing everything they could to find a way to isolate that child and heal them if they could?

He had to pretty much separate us from the rest of the universe because sin is deadly and it's contagious.

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