God's design for marriage is for a husband to love his wife the way Christ loves his people, and for the wife to respond the way Christ's people should. This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. But we have all loved other things more.
This is what sin is--dishonoring God by preferring other things over him, and acting on those preferences. The seriousness of an insult rises with the dignity of the one insulted. Since our sin is against the Ruler of the Universe, "the wages of [our] sin is death" Romans Not to punish it would be unjust.
So God sent his own Son, Jesus, to divert sin's punishment from us to himself. God "loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation"--the wrath-absorbing substitute--"for our sins" 1 John Then God publicly endorsed Christ's accomplishment by raising him from the dead, proving the success of his suffering and death.
It was just; we were guilty. There was only one way to be free: someone must pay the penalty. The law's demands have been fulfilled by Christ's perfect law-keeping, its penalty fully paid by his death. This is why the Bible teaches that getting right with God is not based on law-keeping: "A person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ" Galatians Our only hope is having the blood and righteousness of Christ credited to our account. God's first act in reconciling us to himself was to remove the obstacle that separated him from us--the guilt of our sin.
He took the steps we could not take to remove his own judgment by sending Jesus to suffer in our place: "While we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son" Romans Reconciliation from our side is simply to receive what God has already done, the way we receive an infinitely valuable gift.
When we add the horrific crucifixion that Christ endured, it becomes clear that the sacrifice the Father and the Son made to save us was indescribably great! The measure of his love increases still more when we consider the degree of our unworthiness. Our debt is so great, only a divine sacrifice could pay it. It is my sin that cuts me off from God. All I can do is plead for mercy. I see Christ suffering and dying "to give his life as a ransom for many" Matthew And I ask, am I among the "many"?
And I hear the answer, "Whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" John Jesus paid the highest price possible to give me--personally--the greatest gift possible. To be "in Christ" means to be in relationship to him by faith.
Christ becomes our punishment which we don't have to bear and our worth before God which we cannot earn. The death of Christ secures freedom from condemnation for those who believe that Christ has served their death sentence. It is as sure that they cannot be condemned as it is sure that Christ died! The gospel is the good news that at the cost of his Son's life, God has done everything necessary to captivate us with what will make us eternally and ever-increasingly happy--namely, himself.
More books have been written about Jesus than any other historical figure. Many of these books ask and answer questions about Jesus. All That Jesus Asks allows him to do the asking and shows why getting the right answers will change your life. Covering nearly questions recorded in the New Testament under twenty-six separate themes, All That Jesus Asks uncovers who Jesus is by examining what was important to him and what he wants us to believe.
This unique and comprehensive look at the greatest figure in history will encourage and challenge readers. If the evangelical church at large was ever too confrontational in its evangelism, those days are gone.
In our shrinking, pluralistic world, the belief that Jesus is the only way of salvation is increasingly called arrogant and even hateful.
In the face of this criticism, many shrink back from affirming the global necessity of knowing and believing in Jesus. In Jesus, the Only Way to God, John Piper offers a timely plea for the evangelical church to consider what is at stake in surrendering the unique, universal place of Jesus in salvation.
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We will be happy if you come back to us afresh. Fifty reasons why jesus came to die john piper Cheap used books are available with free shipping within the USA at Thriftbooks. Millions to choose from for the cheapest prices you will find on the web. The most important questions anyone can ask are: Why was JesusChrist crucified? Why did he. Find quotes. All Quotes. Fifty reasons why jesus came to die - welcome Bestselling author John Piper explores fifty things that Jesus accomplished through his death on the cross.
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Free download of fifty reasons why jesus came to In this book, John Piper has gathered from the New Testament fifty reasons behind the crucifixion of the Christ: The most important question of the twenty-first. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, adapted from January 23 Morning; Having triumphed over death, Jesus has returned to the glory that He had from all eternity in heaven Luke ; John —32; , 5; Skip to content.
Fifty reasons why Jesus came to die. Mathewson unpacks the New Testament Scriptures that speak of the reasons Jesus was raised from the dead. In fifty brief chapters, he offers readers faith-filled meditations on the primary passages on the resurrection, taking these ancient truths and applying them to contemporary life. With compelling insight, he shows why Jesus not only had to die, but why his resurrection was necessary and how our lives change when we understand and embrace this essential truth of the Christian faith.
The legend says that man is immortal. Scripture says that immortality is conditional. The legend says the wicked suffer torment forever. Scripture says the wicked will perish.
The legend says that good deeds must exceed bad deeds to avoid eternal torment. Scripture says that only those in Christ have eternal life. The Blackness Of Utter Darkness separates myth from reality regarding life, death, and the afterlife and is a must read for all who have been confused about the traditional view of hell as portrayed by Dantes Inferno.
What is the relationship between divine love and violence in regard to the saving significance of the cross of Christ? In Love, Violence, and the Cross, Gregory Love dialogues with two responses to this question, while presenting a third alternative in which Jesus's death is simultaneously a crime and an element of God's saving actions. Through familiar stories in history, literature, and film, Love presents five constructive models that cumulatively affirm God's saving act in the person and work of Christ while letting go the myth of redemptive violence.
They affirm redemption, but one with a different shape: Instead of exacting the absolute punishment, God redeems by "making good" God's promise to humanity to secure human life. Love argues that God is nonviolent, while retaining the core idea presented in the New Testament witnesses: that reconciliation occurs in the work of Christ, and that the cross plays a role in that divine work.
I believe that is the most important question of the twenty-first century. Here are ten answers from the Bible. Jesus came to die Jesus died to create a whole new way for races to be reconciled: he "has broken down It is impossible to build lasting unity among races by saying that all religions can come together as equally valid. God sent his Son into the world as the only means of saving sinners and reconciling races.
Only as the races find this reconciliation will they love and enjoy each other. That's what sin does Jesus died to change that. He knew that his suffering would make the deepest meaning of marriage plain. That's why the Bible says, "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her" Ephesians God's design for marriage is for a husband to love his wife the way Christ loves his people, and for the wife to respond the way Christ's people should.
This kind of love is possible because Christ died for both husband and wife. Since our sin is against the Ruler of the Universe, "the wages of [our] sin is death" Romans Not to punish it would be unjust.
So God sent his own Son, Jesus, to divert sin's punishment from us to himself. God "loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation"--the wrath-absorbing substitute--"for our sins" 1 John Then God publicly endorsed Christ's accomplishment by raising him from the dead, proving the success of his suffering and death. It was just; we were guilty.
There was only one way to be free: someone must pay the penalty. The law's demands have been fulfilled by Christ's perfect law-keeping, its penalty fully paid by his death. This is why the Bible teaches that getting right with God is not based on law-keeping: "A person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ" Galatians Our only hope is having the blood and righteousness of Christ credited to our account.
God's first act in reconciling us to himself was to remove the obstacle that separated him from us--the guilt of our sin.
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