The Total Sacrifice of Jesus Christ

You know, reality is a reality. And one of the things about reality is it is what it is, as they say. And you deal with it. But let's talk about reality. It's a very unpleasant reality, at least for human beings. You know, the earth had become a prison. One big giant slave camp. The earth, when it had been created, all the angels of God had shouted for joy, for the beauty in all of it. At this particular point in time, though, later on, with all that had transpired, as God looked upon it, it had become a prison. Just one big giant slave camp. Clay, flesh and blood, had become trapped with no way out. Man had lost his freedom, his freedom for life. He was trapped in the penalties of his own doing, and there was no deliverance that could come from himself, without outside help. He was doomed forever. This good green earth had become his first experience with life, and it would be his last. Man found himself trapped in the penalty of total extinction, because that's what the penalty was. Death had passed upon all, as Paul later spoke of in print, to the Romans, death passed on all men. For all had come short of what was legal, they had come short of what was moral, they had come short of what was right. For all had sinned and come short of the glory of God. And specific wages had been incurred, and they had to be paid. And those wages were the wages of death, the wages of sin as death. So there was no deliverance among human beings. There was no deliver. One could not be found. Such did not exist, because part of the reality, there's no perfection among men.

See, every human has some measure of corruption. It's like Solomon notated in the book of Ecclesiastes. There's none that does good and has no sin involved. Every human has some measure of corruption. Every human was a trapped being, and the trapped could not free the trapped.

Only the untrapped could free the trapped, and such did not exist among humans or mankind. So it had to be above and beyond mankind. It had to come from outside mankind. It had to come from the one who was perfect and who didn't have even the least bit of corruption. And it had to come from one whose life was worth more than all the lives and sins of mankind put together. It had to come from the Creator. Nothing else could purchase man his freedom and his future. And that was simply the stark reality. It was undeniable. It was unavoidable. So God, the Creator, the Word, the Logos, the spokesman, Jesus Christ, lowered Himself into this prison camp to actually live among the prisoners. Let's go back and read again what we read two weeks ago in Philippians 2. Philippians 2. And verse 8, being found in fashion, and if you have a margin, it will show that it could just as well have been rendered, being found in habit, in fashion or manner or habit. As a man, He humbled Himself. He humbled Himself. He lowered Himself. And you think about humbling means to lower. That's one meaning of it. How would you lower more than coming from being God, composed of spirit, to coming all the way down to live among the prisoners, to be made of the same stuff since they're made of? You couldn't lower yourself any further in that sense. He humbled Himself. Being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself because just to be found in fashion or manner or habit as a human being, that automatically was an exercise in humility on God's part. You look at verse 7, but made Himself of no reputation, took upon Him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men. It didn't even come to the planet as one of the elite, as one of the nobles. He came and was raised as a carpenter's sign, almost like a little castaway town that hardly anybody knows anything about except what's recorded in Scripture.

And of course, that statement in John 1.14, where it says in John 1.14, the word was made flesh and dwelt among us, dwelt among us with us. It had to be an inside job. He had to be inside the human loop.

There was no other way. It had to be an inside job. Made flesh, John 1.14, made flesh and dwelt among us. And it says here in Philippians 2, in verse 8, and being found in, again, as it could be rendered, habit as a man.

Habit as a man. He had to live life as a human being with all of its needs, all of its functions. He had to eat, he had to drink, he had to sleep. He was a human being. He was God. But he was God in the flesh, living as a human being with all that that entails for 33 and a half years.

And again, it had to be an inside job. What had to be accomplished could not be accomplished from a distance, from afar. It had to be an inside job. Notice Hebrews 2, verse 14. Hebrews 2 and verse 14. For as much then as the children. What is your purpose and my purpose? To be children of God. While we're flesh, to become begotten children of God. And, of course, that purpose of becoming children of God, sons and daughters of God, is the theme of this year's camp program.

That's our destiny. That's our purpose. That's our potential. And, of course, as we're worked with in this life, we become the begotten children of God. To be the literal born through resurrection children of God, composed of spirit in due time. For as much then as the children, you and me, are partakers of flesh and blood. The older I get, the more cognizant I become that I am truly made of flesh and blood. And what it takes to sustain it. And it's my natural makeup.

It's your natural makeup. It was never God's makeup until God chose for it to be for a time. An inside job. Then, for as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same. He allowed Himself to become bones with them tied together with ligaments and tendons and muscle and all that laid over everything. And skin on top of that. And blood coursing through His veins, His arteries. And breath going in and out of His lungs, He took on the human experience.

Why? The answer is right there. As I said two weeks ago, He wasn't killable as God. He became killable as a flesh and blood human being. He had to be able to be killed. He had to be able to die. It says that through death, His death, because He's made of something that's now destructible, He might destroy Him that had the power of death, that is the devil. Because, again, remember, death came in through sin. The wages of sin is death. That through death, He might destroy Him that had the power of death, that is the devil.

And it be true what it says in the last part of verse 9 of this chapter. In verse 9, where it says that the last sentence, that He, by the grace of God, should taste death for every man. When I baptized the young man that I did two weeks ago after services up in Chattanooga, when he went into that watery grave, which is the way we're told to do it, but he literally was going under the blood of Jesus Christ, being buried into Christ's death at that instant.

That's when he officially, formally went under the blood of Jesus Christ and went into His death. It was at that instant that He took on Christ, tasting death for Him, so that He does not have to look forward to dying and staying dead someday.

He doesn't have to look forward to extinction or eternal death. Taste death for every man, every first fruit walking in this age. Christ has tasted death for them. Every human in the order of things, as God has so orchestrated the order, every human will have opportunity to take on Christ's death, and therefore, Christ will have tasted death for them. And, of course, again, it will not be forced.

It will be something they have to respond to in due time, when they're given opportunity, and as they're given opportunity. But it had to be an inside job. It had to be a job inside the realm of sin. It had to be in the realm of corruption. There's no bypassing that. But while He lived inside that realm, He had to live without sin. He had to avoid the corruption. He couldn't take on or absorb one little bit of it. That would have disqualified Him. That would have been sin on Him. He would have incurred the death penalty for Himself. He couldn't taste death for anybody. He would just die for His own sin.

So, He couldn't take on any. He couldn't absorb even one little bit. He had to be totally successful. Totally successful. So, as it says right here in Hebrews 4 and verse 15, it says, "'For we have not a high priest, which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are.' Because, again, it was an inside job.

He was a human being. He was subject to temptation. Tempted like as we are. Yet, the difference being without sin. He never succumbed. He never sinned. And therefore, that allowed Him to be able to free us and to free human beings, to free them." Notice in Ephesians 4.8, this interesting statement, Ephesians 4 and verse 8.

"'Therefore,' he says, when he ascended up on high, the reason Christ could go back to the Father eventually is because He was innocent. He could be resurrected back to eternal life because He had no sin. And from there on and thereafter, He could taste death for every man. His death could cover for any and all, as any and all to whatever degree would accept that, again, during their time of opportunity. Wherefore, he says, when He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive.

That which had captivated was taken captive.' Now, there's another way of wording it too. It can be worded, He led a multitude of captives. Or that is, there was a multitude now of free men, free women, free people because of Him. He led captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. The gift of His sacrifice, the gift of forgiveness being possible, the gift of cleansing, the gift of the Holy Spirit now made possible. I mean, the gift of the opportunity truly for eternal life, all of that. Let's go to Psalm 68 and verse 18. Psalm 68 and verse 18.

See, Paul wrote that in Ephesians. Paul was a student of the Bible. Why do you think he was able to say that? He knew Psalm 68 and 18. He had read it, He had studied it. You have ascended on high. You have led captivity captive. You have received gifts for men. Yea, or yes, for the rebellious also, in the sense that there's no human without some corruption. There's no human without some level of animosity or enmity.

There's no human without some measure of resistance. And even for the outright rebellious person who does repent, who will truly repent, yea, it covers for them too. Again, long as they repent of it, in turn to God, that the Lord God might dwell among them or with them, and obviously with this for eternity. It's also interesting here, you have received gifts for men, can also be rendered, you have received gifts in the man, in the man, in Christ Jesus the man, the gifts come, or come through Him. He's made them possible.

Now, let's go to Isaiah 42 verse 7, again taking the captivity captive, freeing a multitude of captives. Isaiah 42 and verse 7, a prophecy of Christ, to open the blind eyes. Now, not just physically blind eyes, but the spiritually blind eyes, those who dwell in spiritual darkness. That's a gift. I mean, if a blind man, physical blind man, all of a sudden was given the ability to see, what a gift.

Well, isn't it also just as great a gift that if you're given spiritual eyes, light, to see that the spiritual blindness is removed, that darkness is removed, to open the blind eyes. It's on both levels, physical and spiritual, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house. Notice Isaiah 61 verse 1. Isaiah 61 and verse 1. Again, a prophecy.

Everybody from Adam and Eve on became prisoners on this earth, enslaved. And what Christ did, as we looked at two weeks ago, He did it all willingly, voluntarily. When He spoke to them there in John 10 verses 17 and 18 about, No man takes it from me. I laid my life down of myself. He was saying, I voluntarily am doing this. I voluntarily chose to do this. I voluntarily and willingly wanted to do this. And the Father said, okay. Now, it's interesting there in John 10 verses 17 and 18 that when He said, No man takes it from me, but I lay my life down, He was actually referencing a point in time, the way we would count time, He was referencing a time long ago when that decision was made. Before Adam and Eve were created, He was referring back to a time, to a decision that was considered and made based on whatever conversations that God had, that the Father and the Son, as we know them today, that they had long ago before there was the first human, because they don't start a project they can't finish. It's one thing about God. They do not start a project they cannot finish. They discussed all of it before there was such a thing as a trapped human or a human prisoner. See, 2 Timothy 1 and verse 9 touches upon that. 2 Timothy 1 and verse 9 says, "...who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace." Now, I want you to think about a certain aspect of this. According to His own purpose, His own grace, which was given us. Now, when Paul says, us, there, he's referencing the church, isn't he? Who is the church in this age? It's the first fruits. Given us the first fruits. According to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus. But I want to throw in this question. What is given to us? Is it not intended to be given to everybody eventually? When God planned what we are the recipients of now, in the process of fully receiving, is it exclusively to us? John 3, 16 says that God so loved the world that He gave His only sign. And the Holy Day cycle shows that there's three different times of salvation. This age, first fruits. The millennial rule, middle fruits. The last great day, the final fruits, or the last fruits. So what I'm saying is that what you and I have been introduced to at this point, it was planned before the first human ever existed. The rest of the world will be introduced to this. This verse applies to everybody who eventually will be brought truly to Jesus Christ. We understand that. The purpose and the grace is the same to have eternal life in God's family. And that purpose and that grace is given us in this age, it's given those in the millennium, it's given those in the last great day in Christ Jesus. That's the only way. Period. And it says, before the world began, it was well thought of, looked at. In 1 Peter 1, 1 Peter 1, 20. Speaking of Christ, speaking of the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without blemish and without spot in verse 19, it says in verse 20, who truly was foreordained or planned for or purposed before the foundation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for you. It was planned for. See, before God created humans, sin existed. It existed before humans. God had created a planet that was so beautiful, all the angels shouted for joy. As before, Lusford had rebelled. As before, a third of the angels had rebelled. There was no sin when the earth was initially created.

But by the time God created human beings, there had been a Luciferian rebellion. A third of the angels had turned against God. Sin existed. The earth had become a darkened planet that was nothing to shout joy over.

Total chaos and confusion. God had to go through a recreation process of renewing the earth, changing some things, letting light in, landscaping, and just doing the things that were necessary to make it a beautiful and habitable planet again.

But sin existed before man was created. A devil existed. And this planet had become a confinement for the fallen angels. It was their habitation, and it still is, and will be for a time yet. God knew the dangers, He knew the possibilities, and He had to be prepared for whichever way men went.

Like I said, He doesn't start a project that He can't finish. There were planings and decisions that had to be made ahead of time. Certain things had to be considered. So God looked at all the odds, He looked at all the possibilities, and before the Word knelt in the dust of...and Adam wasn't created in Eden. He was created outside the Garden of Eden, and then put in Eden. Eve was created in Eden, the Garden of Eden, because that's where God took Adam, put him asleep, took her over and made her. But He was created from the dust of the ground and then placed in God's garden. But before the Word knelt in the dust and created men, certain decisions had to be made, certain eventualities had to be prepared for. All eventualities had to be prepared for. God was not going and couldn't afford to be caught off guard. So when human flesh touched the forbidden fruit, the foundation of this world of this age, man sold his time into the devil's hands.

And the devil's world became the atmosphere of man's age on this planet. The society was set. And so was the death of God, in the sense that His death was planned for. It became a surety that it would have to be once man sinned, because then man was trapped, there was no way out, and a way had to be made which had already been thought through. And that's why it talks about the Lamb slain from the foundation in Revelation 13. You know, there had to be some kind of discussion long ago where the Logos said, If man sins, I'll die. If man traps himself, I'll go and make a way out for him. I will be his way out. I'll be his way to freedom. I'll be his freedom. And this would be no halfway measure. It would be no halfway sacrifice. It'd have to be a full. It would have to be a total. It would have to be a complete, comprehensive one. See, in Titus 2.14, when we read Scripture for what it fully says, it's very encouraging. It's very strengthening. Titus 2 and verse 14 says, Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity. It's a sacrifice that is so comprehensive that there is no sin of thought or of word or of deed. Folks, brethren, would it surprise you that in my ministry over the years, that one of the things that has cropped up from time to time that I've had to deal with is someone thinking, well, my sins...if you just knew my sins...oh, please don't tell me, I'm not a priest. But if you knew my sins, you might agree with me that maybe God can't forgive me because of what I've done. No, sir. No, ma'am. I wouldn't be able to agree with you that you maybe couldn't be forgiven, because I know you can be. As long as you repent, as long as you're sorry about it, you have every intention, never did it again, you fight it, you hate it, you don't want it, you don't...well, no, I haven't done that in 20 years, but I'm just not sure God can forgive me. Oh, He can. As long as you're repentant. Because, see, that He might redeem us from all iniquity. All is a pretty powerful little three-letter word. Boy, you think about the ground it covers. It covers 100 percent of the ground. It might redeem us from all iniquity and purify us unto Himself, a peculiar or special or purchased people, zealous of good works. And John added to that in 1 John 1.7, 1 John 1, verse 7, where he says, But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, you know, we're living a repentant life, yielded to God, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, does what? Cleanses us from all sin. See, it was a total, complete, comprehensive sacrifice to make possible a complete, total, comprehensive freedom for us.

And when you look at the sacrifice of Christ, He didn't spare His body. He didn't spare His health, and He didn't spare His life. Because, as Philippians 2.8 says, even the death of the cross, nothing was held back. It was a total sacrifice. Nothing held back. Now, I hadn't given you a title for this until now. I would simply title it, The Total Sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The total sacrifice of Jesus Christ because it was total. Crucifixion and the road leading up to it was designed to take everything, to take it all, and it did. Body, health, life. Nailing Christ to the stake was simply the final part or the final stage of all that was being done to Him. And one reason, Christ died quicker than they thought He would. He came to the other two and broke their legs so that they couldn't push themselves up to get their lungs where they could take in air. And then they would sag, and then with the excruciating pain, eventually, when you smother and you're smothering, anybody that's ever smothered knows it's easy to panic, but you've got to breathe. And they would push themselves back up, even though it was excruciating the way they were nailed to the wood, so they'd break their legs so that they couldn't do that, and then they'd suffocate very quickly at that point. He came to Christ. He was already dead. They didn't have to break His legs. And you think about, of course, there was the spear in His side, too, as we're well aware. But He died quicker, too, than they thought He would. They were surprised that He was already transpired, because so much had already been taken out of Him by the time they nailed Him up. But again, it was a total sacrifice of body, health, and life, so there could be a freedom for body, for health, for life. Man, as a trapped being, has trapped himself physically and spiritually. He is held prisoner by the consequences of his own doings. Some of those consequences are spiritual. Some of those consequences are physical. Christ paid the price of freedom for both. There is a sacrifice for sin and death. There's a sacrifice for sickness and disease. There's a sacrifice for broken spirits and broken bodies. And when Peter said in 1 Peter 2.24, he said, By whose stripes you are healed? And when David said in Psalm 103 verse 3, about how He forgives us all our iniquities, how He heals us all our diseases, and how James in James 5.14 talks about, is any sick among you? The bottom line reality to the sacrifice of Christ is there is nothing off limits to God to intervene for us with, to strengthen or give complete and total healing now or at a later time, whatever. Timing is in God's hands. But there is nothing that cannot and does not come under the total, total sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Let's look at the price of our freedom. Let's take kind of a brief full measure of it. We'll just go through half a dozen scriptures. First one is Luke 22 and verse 44. Luke 22 and verse 44. In the Garden of Gethsemane, it says, being in an agony. He's in the Garden of Gethsemane. He knows it's just a short time they're going to come and take Him. And the beating and the bruising and the fleeing and all of that's going to start.

But the pain and the anguish didn't wait till He was taken. It started in the Garden when an extreme mental anguish, He was at the time where He knew the ordeal was going to start. And just knowing what was going to begin to happen to Him.

In verse 44, being in an agony, He prayed more earnestly and His sweat was as it were. And those who don't understand think, oh, it's a poetic way of expressing He was sweating so bad, it was just like big drops of blood dropping. But it wasn't blood. No, it was blood.

It was blood and sweat both. Being in an agony, He prayed more earnestly and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood because the sweat was red. And it was red because there is a condition that can happen under extreme mental stress. And it has to be extreme mental stress, which tells us the kind of stress He was under. Because it can't happen just with regular, deep or heavy stress. It's got to be extremely deep. What it causes is, in the sweat glands, the little tiny capillaries rupture. They hemorrhage under the stress, under the pressure. They hemorrhage and the blood leaks inside the sweat gland and mixes with the sweat. And so when the sweat comes off, it's red because it's got blood in it.

And it is medically recognized as something that can occur, but it can only occur when there is extreme mental anguish and distress. So that tells us, that alone tells us, that the ordeal had begun and how hard it was on Him, great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

The mental anguish of knowing, knowing what was coming, it had been written about in prophecy. Isaiah 50 verse 6. Isaiah 50 and verse 6. Christ, as the Logos, had inspired these words to be written, which were prophetic descriptions of what He knew He would go through when He came as flesh and blood, susceptible to pain, being rendered and torn and flayed and bruised and beaten.

Isaiah 50 verse 6. I gave my back to the smiters. You know, they scourged Him. I gave my back to the smiters in my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair. You know, Christ had a beard. He had what, you know, whatever at that time was just the standard beard that the Jewish men had, how they kept it, etc. But a man who's ever had a beard and ever had somebody run a finger or two into their beard and yank knows how sensitive it is and can only imagine if rough hands are run into the beard and yanking out tufts of hair that plucked off the hair, the cheeks, the beard.

I hid not my face from shame and spitting. You know, what we read that He knew He would go through, we wouldn't want to put anybody through it. We certainly wouldn't want to go through it ourselves. And on top of all of that, when we look at all that He went through, you couldn't do it. I couldn't do it.

It's like someday if God were to appoint me to a martyrdom death and they just simply sliced my head off, when I would come to in the resurrection, rising to meet the return in Christ, my thought would be, thank you. Thank you for such a merciful way to die, because there is no pain or suffering to just being guillotined. It simply isn't.

But to die as Christ did, what He went through. And then in Isaiah 52, verses 14 and 15, Isaiah 52, verses 14 and 15, it says, As many were astonished at you, His visage was so marred more than any man. They had seen others in those three and a half years. They had seen others crucified. They knew what the procedures were, but they had seen no one as beat up and battered and rented and torn and flayed like He was, and His form more than the sons of men.

So shall He sprinkle many nations. And I've often thought about sprinkle many nations, even when they would pound Him with their hardened, calloused soldiers' fists and blood that splattered, and sprinkle on the ones hitting Him and others. The king shall shut their mouths at Him, for that which has not been told them shall they see in due time, and that which they had not heard shall they consider. And then you look at Isaiah 53, verses 3 through 6, He's despised, rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

And we hid as it were our faces from Him. He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He's borne our griefs, carried our sorrows, yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and like Peter said later, with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, because again, there's no such thing as a human being that doesn't have some measure of corruption. We have turned every one to His own way, and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.

Verse 10, "...yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him. He has put Him to grief, when you shall make His soul, His being, and offering for sin." That's the prime purpose for why He came. He shall see His seed. He's going to see the results. He's going to see the spiritual fruit that comes from it, the younger brothers and sisters. He shall prolong His days. He's back in eternity. And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.

God's purposes are able to be fulfilled through Christ. In verse 12, "...therefore will I divide Him a portion with the great, and He sets at the right hand of God, for evermore, and He shall divide the spoil with the strong, because He has poured out His soul, His being, His life, which is in the blood, unto death. And He was numbered with the transgressors, a thief on either side of Him. And He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." I'll go over and scripturally close with reading from Psalm 22.

It's one to read and think about, give a lot of thought to, as far as Christ's sufferings, on your behalf, my behalf, our behalf. It starts off saying, "...My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me?" in verse 1, Psalm 22. Why are you so far from helping Me and from the words of My roaring? Oh, My God, I cry in the daytime, but you hear not, and in the night season I am not silent.

Now, obviously there can also be certain elements and parallels of David's thoughts sprinkled in here. Yes. But also, as we read on, we become very aware that it's also that this, even though David is used to coin these words at the same time, it's a prophecy of Christ and His suffering.

Verse 3, "...But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel. Our fathers trusted in you, they trusted in you, did deliver them. They cried to you and were delivered, they trusted in you and were not confounded. But I am a worm and no man, a reproach of men and despised of the people." And you think about how Christ was treated there at the end. Absolutely.

It's so... I mean, they treated Him as though He were no better than a worm. There wasn't even a man, that He was not even human, really. A reproach. And He was despised. All they that see Me, left Me to scorn. They stick out the tongue, you know, they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, I mean, they made fun of Him, they mocked Him. He trusted on the Lord? Oh, He trusted on the Lord that He would deliver Him. Okay, let Him deliver Him, saying He delights in Him. Sarcasm and all.

In verse 12, who do you think the many bulls that have encompassed Him were? Many bulls have encompassed Me. Strong bulls of God. I don't think Satan was at that point. The other humans didn't see what Christ could see, what He was seeing. They were circling around, making faces, monking Him, gaping at Him. They gaped upon Me with their mouths as a ravening and roaring lion, doing their last best to try to get Him to cross a line and not only forfeit Himself as a sacrifice to free the prisoners of this planet, but to lose His own opportunity to go back to God.

They gaped upon Me with their mouths as a ravening and roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like a potsard, and my tongue cleaves to my jaws, and you have brought Me into the dust of death. For dogs have encompassed Me. The assembly of the wicked have enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet.

This whole segment and section is a prophecy that Christ had inspired to be written. As He was flesh and blood, when He came as flesh and blood, He could pull the scroll out at the synagogue, and He could read this. He knew what was coming.

I may tell all My bones. They look and stare upon Me. They part My garments among them and cast slots upon My vesture. But be not You far from Me, O Lord, O My strength, hasten to help Me.

Again, that whole segment is one that bears sitting and reading it and just thinking it through.

Christ allowed Himself to be poured out as a total sin offering to cover all of the entrapments that man has brought upon Himself. There is nothing, and I do mean nothing, that is repented of, that is outside His scope and His coverage. Nothing physical or spiritual. And as we partake of the bread and wine in just a short time ahead of us on Passover night, let us truly appreciate and realize even more deeply this year than ever before these wonderful facts of reality of Christ and His total sacrifice for us.