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Glory · Jesus Christ
Because of the holiness of God and the reality of our sin. We sinned against a holy God, and the just penalty is death. In love, God the Son took that penalty in our place, satisfying justice so that God can be both just and the justifier of those who believe.
https://glorystudy.com/questions/why-did-jesus-have-to-die · Scripture quoted from the World English Bible
Isaiah 53
As you read: Written centuries before Christ: pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities.
1Who has believed our message? To whom has the arm of Yahweh been revealed?
2For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of dry ground. He has no good looks or majesty. When we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
3He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
4Surely he has borne our sickness, and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
5But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.
6All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is mute, so he didn’t open his mouth.
8He was taken away by oppression and judgment; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?
9They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death; although he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
10Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Yahweh shall prosper in his hand.
11After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was numbered with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Romans 3:21-26
As you read: The diagnosis, and the remedy: justification by grace through the redemption in Christ Jesus.
21But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
23for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;
24being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus;
25whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
26to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.
Romans 5:6-11
As you read: God shows His love for us in this: Christ died for us while we were still enemies.
6For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
7For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a righteous person someone would even dare to die.
8But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
10For if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.
11Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
As you read: The great exchange: the sinless One became sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness.
17Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
18But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
19namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not reckoning to them their trespasses, and having committed to us the word of reconciliation.
20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Mark 10:35-45
As you read: Jesus' own words about why He came: to serve and to give His life.
35James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask.”
36He said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”
37They said to him, “Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory.”
38But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?”
39They said to him, “We are able.” Jesus said to them, “You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with;
40but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”
41When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.
42Jesus summoned them, and said to them, “You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.
43But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
44Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.
45For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Scripture's diagnosis is total: 'All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.' Isaiah says it like a confession: 'All we like sheep have gone astray; everyone has turned to his own way.' The problem is not that God is too strict; it is that we have actually rebelled against Him.
“for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;”Romans 3:23
“All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”Isaiah 53:6
The wages of sin is death. Not merely physical death, but spiritual separation from the God who is the source of all life. 'It is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment.' Someone must answer for what we have done.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”Romans 6:23
“Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,”Hebrews 9:27
This is the scandal of the gospel: we did not climb to God; He came down to us. 'God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.' While we were still enemies, He loved us.
“But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”Romans 5:8
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.”John 3:16
“In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.”1 John 4:10
The heart of the cross is exchange. He was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities; Yahweh has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree. God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us. He died the death we owed, in our place.
“But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”Isaiah 53:5-6
“who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.”1 Peter 2:24
“For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”2 Corinthians 5:21
“For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.””Mark 10:45
On the cross, God set forth Christ as an atoning sacrifice: 'that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.' Justice is not suspended; it is satisfied. The penalty is paid, the righteousness is given, and the love is proven.
“being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus; whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance; to demonstrate his righteousness at this present time; that he might himself be just, and the justifier of him who has faith in Jesus.”Romans 3:24-26
“Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.”Romans 5:9
“Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment, so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.”Hebrews 9:27-28