IN the last hours preceding his betrayal and crucifixion, Christ Jesus comforted his disciples and told them that they should love their fellow men as he had loved them. And then he said to them (John 15:13), "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
What was this life which Jesus laid down for his friends and, in fact, for all mankind? It was the mortal sense of life in matter.
But the sacrifice of Jesus differed from that of all other men in that it was not made merely to save human lives. His object was to show all men how to demonstrate the nothingness of so-called material existence, with its false beliefs of fear, sin, and death, and to offer the proof of man's eternal, indestructible existence in Spirit, in eternal Life.
