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Why did Jesus Christ have to come and die?

The death of Christ is the most important event in history,
It is an issue with explosive power even in the 21st century.
Do you think this has nothing to do with me?

Today we live in a world after the coming of Christ.
This event is a historical fact
It is very relevant not only to Christians but to all modern people.

About the critical problems that each of us must face
World-renowned theologian John Piper provides a comprehensive answer!

It is foolish to think that one day our good deeds will outweigh our bad deeds.
There are two reasons for this.

First, this is not true.
Even our good deeds have flaws.
Because we do not honor God in the way we do good.
Do you joyfully rely on God and do good deeds for the purpose of making known His incomparable worth? … It is foolish to think that our good deeds will ever outweigh our bad deeds before God.
Without the faith that exalts Christ, our actions will mean nothing but rebellion.
The second reason it is foolish to hope in good deeds is because this is not how God saves.
If we are saved from the consequences of our evil deeds, it is not because our evil deeds are less significant than our good deeds.
Because the “written document of the law” in heaven, our debt, was nailed to the cross of Christ.
God saves us not by judging the actions of sinners, but in a completely different way.
There is no hope in our actions.
There is hope only in the suffering and death of Christ.
Salvation is not achieved by balancing recorded good and bad deeds.
Salvation is only obtained by destroying the records.
The record of our evil deeds (including our flawed good deeds) must be erased, each with its own just punishment.
It's not about balancing.
Jesus Christ suffered and died to accomplish this very thing.

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In order to remove the legal demands of the law against us,

God's justice, or righteousness, is no different.
All sins are serious.
Because all sin is against God.
When we ignore God, disobey God, or blaspheme God, we damage His glory.
God is just and cannot abandon us.
Just as a human judge cannot forgive criminals all their debts to society,
The damage our sins have done to God's glory must be repaired.
For then the glory of God will shine brighter in the midst of justice.
If our criminals are to be set free and forgiven, there must be dramatic evidence that God's glory is maintained even when those who blaspheme God are set free.


So Christ suffered and died.
“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of God’s grace” (Ephesians 1:7).
Forgiveness costs us nothing.
All our obedience is only the fruit of forgiveness, not the basis of forgiveness.
That's why we call forgiveness grace.
But for Jesus, the price of forgiveness was His life.
That's why we call forgiveness justice.
What precious news it is that God does not hold our sins against us. The reason God is right in doing this is because of the blood of Christ.
Oh, how beautiful Christ is!
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From “Forgiving Our Sins”

We live in a modern society.
Modern society is the age of science, the Internet, organ transplants, real-time messaging, and cell phones.
But our fundamental problem is always the same.
The problem is that our conscience condemns us.
We don't feel good enough to stand before God.
No matter how twisted our consciences may be, this is the truth.
We are not good enough to stand before God.
Whether we harm ourselves, sacrifice our children, donate millions of dollars to nonprofits, volunteer at a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving, or engage in any other form of repentance and self-harm, the result is the same.
In other words, the stain remains and death causes fear.
We know.
Our conscience is defiled.
It is not defiled by external things, such as touching a corpse or eating pork.
Jesus said that it is not what goes into a person but what comes out of a person that is unclean (Mark 7:15-23).
What defiles us are pride, self-pity, bitterness, lust, envy, jealousy, greed, indifference, and fear, and the actions they fuel.
These are all “dead works.”
There is no spiritual life here.
These come from death and lead to death.
For this reason, dead works make us despair of our conscience.
As in every age, there is only one answer in modern times: the blood of Christ.
When our conscience rises up and condemns us, where do we turn? We turn to Christ.
Towards the suffering and death of Christ, that is, towards the blood of Christ.
In all the universe, this is the only purifying agent that gives solace to the conscience and peace in death.

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From “To Give Us a Clear Conscience”

No matter what anyone says, God is the gospel.
The gospel means 'good news'.
Christianity is, above all, a message, not a theology.
It's like hearing news from the radios hidden by prisoners of war: Allied forces have landed and rescue is just a matter of time.
But what is ultimately the "good" in good news? The good news is all wrapped up in one thing.
It is God.
Every word of the gospel connects to God, otherwise it is not the gospel.
For example, if 'salvation' is only salvation from hell and not salvation for God, it is not good news.
If "justification" only makes us legally acceptable to God and does not bring us into fellowship with Him, it is not good news.
If 'redemption' only frees us from bondage and does not lead us to God, it is not good news.
If 'adoption' only brings us into our Father's family and not into His embrace, it is not good news.

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From “To Lead Us to God”

Christ died not so that we could help Him, but so that we could see and enjoy Him as infinitely valuable.
Christ died to free us from harmful pleasures and to captivate us with the joy of His beauty.
In this way we are loved and He is exalted.
These two are not competing goals.
Two are one.
Jesus told his disciples that he had to go away so he could send the Holy Spirit, the Counselor (John 16:7).
Then he told his disciples what he would do when the Comforter came.
“He will bring glory to me” (John 16:14).
Christ died and rose again so that we might see Him and exalt Him.
This is the greatest help in the world.
This is love.
This is the supreme prayer of love that Jesus prayed.
“Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am, and that they may see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the creation of the world” (John 17:24).
For this Christ died.
He suffered to give us eternal joy, that is, to give us himself.
This is love.

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From “So that we may live for Christ and not for ourselves”

Everything we enjoy as believers in Christ is thanks to His death.
The suffering of Christ took upon himself all the judgment that sinners deserved and purchased all the good things that forgiven sinners enjoy.
Therefore, all this boasting must boast in the cross.
But we are not as Christ-centered and cherish the cross as we should be.
Because we do not deeply consider the truth that all good things (including all bad things that God turns to good) were purchased through the sufferings of Christ.
How can we focus completely on the cross? We must awaken to the truth that when Christ died on the cross, we too died.
When this happened to him, the Apostle Paul said, “The world has been crucified to me, and I to the world” (Galatians 6:14).
This is the secret to centering on Christ and boasting in the cross.


When you believe in Christ, the powerful allure of the world disappears.
We are dead to the world and the world is dead to us.
In other words, we are “a new creation” (Gal. 6:15).
The old man is dead, and the new man, we who believe in Christ, is alive.
This faith is revealed in valuing Christ above all things in the world.
The world's ability to steal our love is dead.
To be dead to the world means that all the legitimate pleasures of the world become for us blood-bought evidence of Christ's love and an opportunity to boast in the cross.
When our hearts follow the line of blessings back to the source, the cross, the blessings of the world die and Christ crucified becomes our everything.

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From “So that the cross may be the ground of all our boasting”

Justification precedes and makes imitation possible.
Christ suffered so that we might be justified.
Therefore, we may suffer while proclaiming Christ.
Although God's wrath is not removed by our suffering for others, our suffering shows us how precious it is that God's wrath is removed by Christ's suffering.
Our suffering points people to Christ.
Paul says, “I endure everything for the sake of the elect, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory” (2 Timothy 2:10).
This means that when we imitate Christ, people's eyes will be turned to the only One who can save us.
Only the sufferings of Christ can save us.
Therefore, imitate Christ's love, but do not replace Him.

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“So that we may imitate his humility and precious love”

Jesus died to open a whole new way for reconciliation between all peoples and races.
Consciousness, nationality, and race are not the basis for joyful togetherness.
The only basis is Christ.
Christ has fully fulfilled the law.
All the elements of the law that divided people were ended in Christ.
Except for one thing.
One of them is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We cannot achieve lasting unity among races and ethnicities by claiming that all religions are of equal value and can coexist.
Christ is the Son of God.
God sent His Son into the world as the only means of saving sinners and reconciling races and nations forever.
To deny this is to destroy not only the eternal hope, but also the very foundation for eternal unity among races and peoples.
Through Jesus' death on the cross, a world that transcends local boundaries was achieved.
Reconciliation was achieved between God and man.
Only when we discover this and rejoice in it can we love and rejoice in one another forever.
Christ overcame the alienation between races and nations in the reconciliation of God and humanity.

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To break down hostility between races and nations