I hope you enjoyed the countdown to Easter Sunday. I thought it would be profitable to relist the fifty reasons one more time for further reflection. I hope that we can make the death and resurrection of Christ a daily celebration.
Fifty Reasons Why Christ Suffered and Died:
- 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
Be Blessed!
