3110.— The Sacrifice of Christ
By Editor
If after Christ had taken upon Himself humanity, and “became sin for us,” He had refused to submit to His death on the cross, would He have lost eternal life as well as we? Having “entered in” by the sacrifice of Himself makes it look as tho He would. John 10: 2. B. T. M. This subject will be more fully developed in our Sabbath-school lessons as we proceed. Answering briefly: If He had refused to submit to the will of God, He certainly would have been out of harmony with God's will, and would have allied Himself with sin. That will be seen by His prayer in the garden. It was a matter of His yielding to God's will. He prayed that the cup of suffering might be removed, but above that prayer was the prayer that God's will might be done. That was the awful risk which God in Christ was willing to take because of His love for fallen man.