Here on Good Friday, it seems fitting to stop and think
about the suffering and death of Christ, and why Jesus came to die. Here is a
list from John Piper, from his book, Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die. Read
through them. Slowly. Ponder them. Savor them. The king of kings lived the life
you should have lived and died the death you should have died, and accomplished
all this, and so much more!
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 o/f 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
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