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Reason #14 – To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful In the Bible the covenants God makes with man are initiated by himself. He sets the terms. His obligations are determined by his own purposes. When Christ died,…

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Reason #12 – To Take Away Our Condemnation There is no double jeopardy in God’s court. We will not be condemned twice for the same offenses. Christ has died once for our sins. We will not be condemned for them.…

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Reason #11 – To Complete the Obedience that Becomes our Righteousness Our sin was imputed to Him, and thus He became our pardon…Christ’s righteousness was imputed to us, and thus He became our perfection. Imputation. Another $2 theological word. But…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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I’m cranking up a blog to have an outlet to post thoughts or ideas I might have. These may be related to current events, NASCAR, theology, faith, church, family, or whatever happens to cross my mind. I’m not putting a limit…