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This Lenten Season, we are reflecting on the Question #WhyJesusCametoDie based on John Piper’s book Fifty reasons why jesus came to die.
Reason 1 Reason 2 Reason 3 Reason 4
Today’s reason is -“To Show the Wealth of God’s Love and Grace for Sinners“
To understand this reason, we need to answer two questions
- How much is God’s Love for me?
- How much is my Unworthiness to receive God’s Salvation?
John 3:16 answers the first question. The phrase “He gave his only son” answers the depth of God’s Love for me.
To answer the second question, we need to understand sin; .Sin is the failure to be what we ought to be and could be. It is Universal. The Bible says in Romans 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”.
Someone giving up his precious life for sinners, is paramount sacrifice. Apostle Paul brings out this beautifully in his Epistle to Romans
7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Romans 5:7-9
It is God’s love & riches of His Grace (Ephesians 1:7) that has saved me – the unworthy & undeserving. We do owe a worthy response to the Salvation we have received. Depending on God, Shall we give a worthy response to Christ’s Great Sacrifice?