There is a necessary sacrifice for sin which the Father of the Christ has provided. It is the crucifixion of the Christ: death of the Christ on the cross. It is surprising that the Christ, the kingly anointed Son sent by the Father, would suffer this way. Psalm 2 shows us what kind of king sits beside the Father on the eternal throne, shaming the rebel rulers and people of the world, eventually ruling over them all. It is not so obvious about the suffering and death, then resurrection, but this is seen in how the Christ is modelled on the ancient Israelite king David. David is seen in scriptures as a very human king, unusual in his righteous heart of devotion to God, but sometimes weak and susceptible to temptation too. David‘s psalms speak of sufferings endured, of painful betrayal by a close friend, of being pierced in the flesh, surrounded by doglike enemies, all during his submission to God. A Christly king is not impervious or invulnerable. He must endure human weakness and the full range of human suffering, becoming suitable to judge all others with understanding of their humanity by having fully experienced it, yet as with David, maintaining a sonly devotion to the inner heart and will of the Father, God. So Jesus too knew he would suffer these things foretold by David in prophetic psalms. The Christ is an anointed human, provided by God to deal with and end all rebellion. Part of this is provision for repentance. A sacrifice for the sins of the repentant is needed, to provide a way to escape rebellion before rebellion gets put down and subjected to this Christ by the Father. The name of Jesus means Saviour, because he would save his people from their sins. He had to provide not only a way to become his people, but a way to cleanse away the past sins of those people. It is a way out right now, to avoid damnation when he returns. His way out, to save from damnation, is to free from sinning, and to cleanse away to results of past sins. This way is by belief in him, and then by holding to gracious teachings he gives, making the believing disciple of his teachings one of his own, with a promise of him freeing them from enslaving sins. The death on the cross was to provide divine forgiveness and riddance of guilt for past sins, opening the way for a changing of the disciple in freeing from sinful ways, making the disciple one with himself in knowledge of the truth he brings. The sacrifice sets aside the wrath of God towards the disciple as they gain this freedom and cease their damnably sinful misdeeds. As the psalms of David also foretold, the sacrificial death had to be followed by resurrection and then all surpassing joy in the presence of the Father. This means that the Christ is made eternally alive, risen from the dead, so his kingdom, unlike David who died, will have no end, making him even more an answer to rebellion than king David had been.
