“Why did Jesus have to die?”
That is a pretty popular question we hear these days whether it is from believers or non believers. It typically falls in line with some way of thinking that “if God is so powerful, then surely He wouldn’t have to sacrifice His son, right?”
What often gets missed in the midst of these question is an accurate reflection on just how sinful we are, and just how holy God is. For believers, there are times we forget our first love. For non believers, there is a misunderstanding of who Jesus is and what He has done. We are so sinful (me included) in fact, whether or not we are believers, we have a tendency to move on and forget about Jesus. Meaning, are we returning before the cross each day and reminding ourselves of the Gospel that saved us, and trusting it to lead us today?
I strongly encourage you whether or not you believe in Jesus, to read through these fifty reasons, slowly. Take time going through each one reflecting on what Jesus actually did for us on the cross. I pray as believers you would be freshly encouraged from this and give gratitude and praise to the Lord for what He has done. I pray for non believers that you would take the time to read this and consider the fact that either this really happened or it didn’t. There is no middle ground here. Jesus is either Lord and King, or a liar from what He proclaimed. Either way, you are making a decision each day to either believe in Him or not.
Again, read over these slowly and draw closer to Him reflecting on why Jesus died for us.
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
- To Absorb the Wrath of God
- To Please His Heavenly Father
- To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected
- To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead
- To Show the Wealth of God’s Love and Grace for Sinners
- To Show His Own Love for Us
- To Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us
- To Become a Ransom for Many
- For the Forgiveness of Our Sins
- To Provide the Basis for Our Justification
- To Complete the Obedience That Becomes Our Righteousness
- To Take Away Our Condemnation
- To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation
- To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful
- To Make Us Holy, Blameless, and Perfect
- To Give Us a Clear Conscience
- To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us
- To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness
- To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him
- To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age
- To Reconcile Us to God
- To Bring Us to God
- So That We Might Belong to Him
- To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place
- To Become for Us the Place Where We Meet God
- To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become the Eternal High Priest
- To Become a Sympathetic and Helpful Priest
- To Free Us from the Futility of Our Ancestry
- To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin
- That We Might Die to Sin and Live to Righteousness
- So That We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for God
- To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves
- To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our Boasting
- To Enable Us to Live by Faith in Him
- To Give Marriage Its Deepest Meaning
- To Create a People Passionate for Good Works
- To Call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love
- To Create a Band of Crucified Followers
- To Free Us from Bondage to the Fear of Death
- So That We Would Be with Him Immediately After Death
- To Secure Our Resurrection from the Dead
- To Disarm the Rulers and Authorities
- To Unleash the Power of God in the Gospel
- To Destroy the Hostility Between Races
- To Ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation
- To Gather All His Sheep from Around the World
- To Rescue Us from Final Judgment
- To Gain His Joy and Ours
- So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor
- To Show That the Worst Evil Is Meant by God for Good
Desiring God has made this eBook in eight languages free discussing these fifty reasons more in depth. You can download it here.
Question: Do you have a favorite reason out of these 50 you would like to share with us? Please do so by commenting below.
The words of Jesus refute all the nonsense theology man has invented. Jesus taught nothing that the previous prophets said: repent, turn to God, do Righteousness, and live. Period. His death was clearly explained: “Greater love has no man than to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends IF you do as I command you.” (John 15:13-14) And his mission? Not to come and die, but “to preach” (Luke 17:21.) God through His prophets said he does not want blood sacrifices of any kind (Isaiah 1:11; Psalm 51:16) but our hearts to be pure and our… Read more »
Hey Stephen,
Thanks for sharing. From this post and many others on this site, I think you’ll see that we believe that we do have a responsibility when we believe in Jesus to turn away from our sins, follow Him, follow His teachings and obey to His commands. All because of what Jesus has done for us and because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19).
So I’m not entirely too sure to what you’re describing or who you’re describing, but hopefully our posts on here make the Gospel very obvious.
Thanks again for sharing!
Too fundamentalist! The God I experience and I know from experience and from reading the bible is not the God who is blood thirsty as presented in this blog.
Hey Wends, sorry to hear that. If you were to read other posts here on BTC, I think you’d see just how great God is and how amazing it is that Jesus chose us first – https://beforethecross.com/biblical-teachings/we-didnt-choose-jesus-he-chose-us/
There are plenty of more posts as well that describe a God who is loving and personal. We’d like to invite you to read others if you’d like. Appreciate you sharing your opinion and reading.
That’s 4 or 5 reasons stated 10 ways. The point people make is if God is so divine, none of that was necessary. If it was, then God is indeed an incredibly vain and resentful being.
Thank you for sharing. I would like to encourage you to read one of the Gospels in the Bible, maybe the book of John and start there, learning who Jesus is, why He even came, and what that means for us today.
Debating in a blog post forum would never get anyone anywhere and reading the Bible would be a million times better than any blog post or comment.
Appreciate you sharing.