What did God accomplish in sending his Son to die?
John 3:16 "For God loved the world so much that He gave His one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
Each Christmas we celebrate the birth of somebody that would have never died, somebody that came so that he could die, somebody that died because of nothing that he did. What an amazing thought! Jesus could have stayed home and he would have avoided a lot of suffering. If I had to choose, I am pretty sure that I would have stayed home, I could not be so concerned for somebody else that I would leave the splendor of heaven and live here on this planet.
Such drastic actions on Jesus part should make us wonder, why did Jesus come to die? Who killed Jesus? What was the purpose? Why didn't he stay home avoid a lot of pain and sorrow?
Free book download: Fifty Reasons Jesus Came To Die - John Piper
In my study of "God With Us" this Christmas, I came across this John Piper book that is a free PDF download. The book there is a detailed study of why Jesus came to die, with an exhaustive list of reasons and a detailed explanation of what each reason is about and the Bible verses that backup each reason.
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die:
| 1. To Absorb the Wrath of God 2. To Please His Heavenly Father 3. To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected 4. To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead 5. To Show the Wealth of God’s Love and Grace for Sinners 6. To Show His Own Love for Us 7. To Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us 8. To Become a Ransom for Many 9. For the Forgiveness of Our Sins 10. To Provide the Basis for Our Justification 11. To Complete the Obedience That Becomes Our Righteousness 12. To Take Away Our Condemnation 13. To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation 14. To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful 15. To Make Us Holy, Blameless, and Perfect 16. To Give Us a Clear Conscience 17. To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us 18. To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness 19. To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him 20. To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age 21. To Reconcile Us to God 22. To Bring Us to God 23. So That We Might Belong to Him 24. To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place 25. To Become for Us the Place Where We Meet God 26. To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become the Eternal High Priest 27. To Become a Sympathetic and Helpful Priest 28. To Free Us from the Futility of Our Ancestry 29. To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin 30. That We Might Die to Sin and Live to Righteousness 31. So That We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for God 32. To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves 33. To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our Boasting 34. To Enable Us to Live by Faith in Him 35. To Give Marriage Its Deepest Meaning 36. To Create a People Passionate for Good Works 37. To Call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love 38. To Create a Band of Crucified Followers 39. To Free Us from Bondage to the Fear of Death 40. So That We Would Be with Him Immediately After Death 41. To Secure Our Resurrection from the Dead 42. To Disarm the Rulers and Authorities 43. To Unleash the Power of God in the Gospel 44. To Destroy the Hostility Between Races 45. To Ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation 46. To Gather All His Sheep from Around the World 47. To Rescue Us from Final Judgment 48. To Gain His Joy and Ours 49. So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor 50. To Show That the Worst Evil Is Meant by God for Good |
Get the details for each reason in the free book download: Fifty Reasons Jesus Came To Die by John Piper.
