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compiled
by John
Piper "[I]t
was the LORD's will to crush him and cause
him to suffer…. 2.
To please His Heavenly
Father 3.
To learn obedience and be
perfected 4.
To achieve His own resurrection from
the dead 5.
To show the wealth of God's love and
grace for sinners 6.
To show His own love for us 7.
To cancel the legal demands of the law
against us 8.
To become a ransom for many 9.
For the forgiveness of our
sins 10.
To provide the basis for our
justification 12.
To take away our
condemnation 13.
To abolish all rituals as the basis of
salvation 14.
To bring us to faith and keep us
faithful 15.
To make us holy, blameless, and
perfect 16.
To give us a clear
conscience 17.
To obtain for us all things that are
good for us 18.
To heal us from moral and physical
sickness 19.
To give eternal life to all who believe
on Him 20.
To deliver us from the present evil
age 22.
To bring us to God 23.
So that we might belong to
Him 24.
To give us confident access to the
Holiest Place 25.
To become for us the Place where we
meet God 26.
To bring the Old Testament priesthood
to an end and become the eternal High
Priest 27.
To become a sympathetic and helpful
priest 28.
To free us from the futility of our
ancestry 29.
To free us from slavery to
sin 30.
That we might die to sin and live to
righteousness 32.
To enable us to live for Christ and not
ourselves 33.
To make His cross the ground of all our
boasting 34.
To enable us to live by faith in
Him 35.
To give marriage its deepest
meaning 36.
To create a people passionate for good
works 37.
To call us to follow His example of
lowliness and costly love 38.
To create a band of crucified
followers 39.
To free us from bondage to the fear of
death 40.
So that we would be with Him after
death 42.
To disarm the rulers and
authorities 43.
To unleash the power of God in the
Gospel 44.
To destroy the hostility between
races 45.
To ransom people from every tribe and
language and people and
nation 46.
To gather all His sheep from around the
world 47.
To rescue us from final
judgment 48.
To gain His joy and ours 49.
So that He would be crowned with glory
and honor 50.
To show that the worst evil is meant by
God for good
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From
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The
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Gateway Church
SPRING
2004
50
reasons why Jesus Christ
suffered and died
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our
iniquities….
[T]he LORD has laid on him the
iniquity of us all."
(from
Isaiah 53)
1.
To absorb the wrath of God
11.
To complete the obedience that becomes
our righteousness
21.
To reconcile us to God
31.
So that we would die to the Law and
bear fruit for God
41.
To secure our resurrection from the
dead
From
The
Passion of Jesus Christ: Fifty
Reasons Why He Came to
Die
by John Piper (Crossway Books,
2004).