Reason #10 – To Provide the Basis for Our Justification Being forgiven implies that I am guilty and my crime is not counted. Being justified implies that I have been tried and found innocent. My claim is just. I am…
Reason #9 – For the Forgiveness of Our Sins Forgiveness is not “getting” even. It is giving away the right to get even. Oh, how precious is the news that God does not hold our sins against us! And how…
Reason #8 – To Become a Ransom for Many Yet not everyone will be ransomed from the wrath of God. But the offer is for everyone. It only took Piper 8 reasons to come out swinging with limited atonement. It…
Reason #7 – To Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us What a folly it is to think our good deeds may one day outweigh our bad deeds. Piper lists 2 reasons that he considers this a folly:…
Reason #6 – To Show His Own Love for Us [The sufferings and death of Christ] are about Christ’s love for me personally. It is my sin that cuts me off from God, not sin in general…All I can do…
Reason #5 – To Show the Wealth of God’s Love and Grace for Sinners We are worse off than frogs. They have not sinned. They have not rebelled and treated God with the contempt of being inconsequential in their lives.…
Reason #4 – To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead [The resurrection] was the public declaration of God’s endorsement [that the righteousness of God was completely vindicated]. There is a huge link from this passage back to reason #1…
Reason #3 – To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected If the Son of God had gone from incarnation to the cross without a life of temptation and pain to test His righteousness and his love, he would have be a…
Reason #2 – To Please His Heavenly Father [Christ’s] death was not the begrudging consent of God to be lenient to sinners. What is most astonishing about this substitution of Christ for sinners is that it was God’s idea. What…