Knowing Jesus

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Knowing Jesus

• Lesson 4 Why He Died?
• Text John 1513

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Review Knowing Jesus
Knowing Jesus
Who is He?
How did He come?
What He taught?
Why He Died?
What does He expect?
We need to get to know Jesus!
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Knowing Jesus Means Knowing Why He Died?
His Love Motivated Him To Save Us From Our Sins!
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay
down ones life for His friends. You are My
friends if you do whatever I command. (Jh.
1513-14) For the Son of Man has come to seek
and save that which was lost. (Lk. 1910)
For God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should
not perish but have eternal life. (Jh. 316)
To know Jesus, we must understand, Why He Died?
Lets explore the deeper answers beyond the
obvious.
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Jesus Died To Remove The Curse
Man has always been under law to God.
Patriarchal Age For the Lord God commanded
(Ge. 216-17)
Mosical Age You shall not (Ex. 20)
Christian Age But who looks into the perfect
law of liberty (Jam. 125)
First century Christians faced challenges from
Judaizers.
They tried to compel them to be circumcised and
accept other aspects of the Law - these try to
compel you to be circumcisedFor not even those
who are circumcised keep the law (Ga. 612-13
Ac. 15)
Christ is nullified, if we attempt to keep the
Old Law you have become estranged from
Christ, you who attempt to be justified by the
law you have fallen from grace. (Ga. 52-4).
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Jesus Died To Remove The Curse
Justification strictly on a law basis demands
perfection all the time (Ga. 310-29).
Those who attempt such justification place
themselves under a curse For as many as are of
the works of the law are under the curse for it
is written, Cursed is everyone who does not
continue in all the things which are written in
the book of law, to do them. But no one is
justified by the law in the sight of God is
evident, for The just shall live by faith. Yet
the law is not of faith, but The man who does
them shall live by them. Christ has redeemed us
from the curse of the law, having become a curse
for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone
who hangs on a tree), that the blessing of
Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ
Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the
Spirit through faith. (Ga. 310-14)
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Jesus Died To Remove The Curse
God never intended to justify man in such a way
Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises
made, He does not say, And to seeds, as of
many, but as of one, And to your Seed, who is
Christ. And this I say, that the law, which was
four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul
the covenant that was confirmed before by God in
Christ, that it should make the promise of no
effect. (Ga. 316-17)
The purpose of the law was to identify sin and
lead us to Christ What purpose, then does, the
law serve? It was added because of
transgressions, till the Seed should comeRead.
(Ga. 319, 22-29)
The promise of Jesus is salvation to all - For
the promise is to you and to your children, and
to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our
God will call. (Ac. 229)
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Jesus Died To Remove The Curse
Jesus did what the Old Law could not do - For
what the law could not do in that it was weak
through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son
in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of
sin He condemned sin in the flesh, (Ro. 83)
The imperfect Old Law was annulled - For on the
one hand there is an annulling of the former
commandment because of its weakness and
unprofitableness, for the law made nothing
perfect on the other hand, there is the bringing
in of a better hope, through which we draw near
to God. (Hb. 718-19)
Jesus did something we could never do. He kept
the law perfectly and took the Old Law out of the
way forever as promised.
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Jesus Died To Remove The Curse
Jesus came to fulfill the law, thus removing the
curse!
Jesus fulfilled the Law, hence not applicable
today - Do not think that I came to destroy the
Law or Prophets, I did not come to destroy but to
fulfill. For assuredly, I say unto you, till
heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle
will by no means pass from the law till all is
fulfilled. (Mt. 517-18)
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Jesus Died To Reconcile Us
Not being under a curse is good, but we are still
lacking. We need to be reconciled to God (Ro.
56-11).
We are described as ungodly, sinners, and
enemies.(Ro. 56-10).
Christ death restores friendship with God broken
by sin For if when we were enemies we were
reconciled to God through the death of His Son
much more having been reconciled, we shall be
saved by His life. And not only that, but we
also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ
whom we have now received reconciliation. (Ro.
510-11)
Our sins separate us from God - your
iniquities have separated you from your
God...(Is. 591-2).
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Jesus Died To Reconcile Us
We are enemies or friends with God - Whoever
therefore who wants to be a friend of the world
makes himself an enemy with God.(Jm. 44).
We need to be reconciled to God (Ro. 56-11).
After we commit sin, we dont deserve Gods
friendship.
We deserve wrath - Much more than having now
been justified by his blood, we shall be saved
from wrath through Him.(Ro. 59).
Jesus death brings us back together as friends
with God. Not only are we spared His wrath, but
we can enjoy what we had before our sinful
conduct.
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Jesus Died To Appease God
Yesthe curse has been removed.
YesGod has befriended us once again.
Yet, there remains 1 important factorGods just
nature. The removed curse and restored
friendship does not address it.
God is just and holy! Even though He forgives
sin, His nature wont allow Him to ignore or
pretend sin never happened.
Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are
forgiven and whose sins are covered Blessed is
the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin.
(Ro. 47-8)
God must be appeased or satisfied.
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Jesus Died To Appease God
God deserves appeasement because He is inherently
righteous (I Jh. 21-2).
Our goal is not to sin - My little children,
these things I write to you, that you may not
sin (I Jh. 21)
All do sin - there is none righteous, no, not
oneall have sinned and fall short of the glory
of God. (Ro. 310, 23)
Sin results in the death penalty - For the wages
of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Ro. 623)
Yet when we sin, we have an Advocate who
propitiates for us - And if anyone sins, we
have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ
the righteous. And He Himself is the
propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only,
but also for the whole world. (I Jh. 21-2)
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Jesus Died To Appease God
God saw His Sons death as an atonement that
satisfied His just demands for the payment for
sin.
He is just to demand payment and He is
justifier to proclaim our innocence based on
our response to Jesus death - for all have
sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being
justified freely by His grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set
forth to be a propitiation mercy seat by His
blood through faith, to demonstrate His
righteousness, because in His forbearance God had
passed over sins that were previously committed,
to demonstrate at the present time His
righteousness, that He might be just and the
justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
(Ro. 323-26)
Jesus paid the price on our behalf to appease God!
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Summary Why Did Jesus Die?
Why did Jesus die? It was more than the obvious
answer, To save us from our sins.
gt He removed a curse, which is a burden we could
not bear (Ga. 310-29).
gt He rekindled a friendship that we betrayed.
(Ro. 56-11).
gt He satisfied the Divine demand for sin (I Jh.
21-2).
Jesus loved us enough to die in order to remove a
curse, reconcile us to God, and appease God.
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Conclusion
In a word, the best description the New Testament
offers of Jesus death is
S A C R I F I C E
Jesus sacrificed His body for our sins By
that will we have been sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
allBut this Man, after He had offered one
sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right
hand of God. (Hb. 1010-12)
Jesus redeemed us by His blood knowing that
you were not redeemed with corruptible thingsbut
with the precious blood of Christ, as a lamb
without blemish and without spot. (I Pt.
118-19 Isa. 53)
Jesus proved His love for us - Greater love has
no one than this, than to lay down ones life for
His friends. You are My friends if you do
whatever I command. (Jh. 1513)
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What Will You Do In Return?
Love Jesus in turn - We love Him because He
first loved us. (I Jh. 419)
Our love for Him should motivate us to live for
Him - For the love of Christ constrains us,
because we judge thus that if One died for all,
then all died and he died for all, that those
who live should no longer live for themselves,
but for Him who died for them and rose again.
(II Co. 514-15)
Obey His Words - If you love Me, keep My
commandments. (Jh. 1415)
Be baptized - Therefore, we are buried with Him
through baptism into death, that just as Christ
was raised from the dead by the glory of the
Father, even so we also should walk in newness of
life. (Rom. 63-6)
Are we ready to show our love for Christ?