It is Palm Sunday when Jesus enters Jerusalem and the last week of his earthly life. Easter is next Sunday when Jesus literally rises from the dead. I love John Piper’s book, The Passion of Jesus Christ where he explains why Jesus Christ had to suffer and die. After-all, it was the Lord’s will to “crush him and cause him to suffer” (Isaiah 53:10). God did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all (Romans 8:32). Some struggle with this idea, but Jesus had to die for you and me in order for us to have forgiveness for our mistakes against a just and holy God and have the chance to be back in relationship with the Almighty God of the Universe.
Do you believe Jesus is the Savior of the World.
Have you received him as your Savior?
Here are the overwhelming reasons in the Biblical Scriptures and chapters of Piper’s book why Jesus needed to come to earth to die on a cross…
…FOR YOU!
1. To absorb the wrath of God against us.
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 against God.
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 ultimately 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 life 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 it’s 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 judgement.
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.
And I am sure there are more reasons…
and it is overwhelming the amount of Love God has for YOU!
Which of these reasons hits you today?
Take a moment and thank God for sending his Son for you.
Take a moment and surrender to Jesus receiving him as your Savior today.
What a glorious week!
