I agree with all that, but Jesus was a living sacrifice, he was dead to the flesh and alive in God, he sacrificed his whole life to live by the will of God, he denied the flesh, denied satan, and lived completely by the will of the father. He obeyed the fathers every word, and bore witness to the truth, and preached the gospel and he saves all those who truly believe in him and believe in the word of God through faith by the grace of God and those who truly follow Jesus will also live by the will of God through him.
It doesn't say in the Bible that we have to believe in Jesus dying on the cross to be saved or that we have to have faith in the cross, but that we have to believe in Jesus Christ and that he was raised from the dead, and have faith in the living God and live by his will, and I do through Christ Jesus.
God didn't need Jesus to die on a wooden cross to save, he needed him to be dead to the flesh to save and that's exactly what he was, dead to the flesh and alive in God preaching the word of truth and life and those who believe in him are saved from this world of sin and death through the power of the Spirit. His words are Spirit and they are life. No need for him to die to save. He lived to save, he was saving in his lifetime.
I'm looking at my baby grandson and he is innocent, the world hasn't corrupted him, he's got no interest in the things of the world, and this is the innocence that Christ had, being dead to this world it had nothing in him, satan couldn't touch him, he was a pure living sacrifice, a pure lamb of God who laid down his life to live by the will of God and bring us a new and living way.
