Romans chapter 5. Verse 1. Therefore, having been justified
by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom also We have access by faith into this grace in which
we stand and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. And not
only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that
tribulation produces perseverance or patience, and perseverance
produces character, and character produces hope. Now, hope does
not disappoint. Because the love of God has been
poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to
us. For when we were still without
strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely
for a righteous man will one die. Yet perhaps for a good man,
someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates his own
love toward us in that while we were still sinners, Christ
died for us. Much more than having now been
justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 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, through whom we have now received the reconciliation
or atonement. Now in verse eight, look at that
phrase. At the very end of the verse,
Christ died for us. That's our subject this morning. That's the title of the message,
Christ died for us. In saying Christ died for us,
there are two meanings to it and they both apply. Christ died
for us in the sense that he was our substitute. He died for us
in our place and stead. suffered what we deserved so
that the blessings we did not deserve might be given to us. They were merited through him.
Second sense of that word for is for our benefit. He died in
our place instead and he died for our benefit. What benefits? 15 of them. And we got a short time,
but we're gonna look at them this morning. I'm gonna show
to you from God's word, 15 benefits, blessings from Christ's death
to his people. First of all, saved from sins. John 19, 30, along with Matthew
chapter one, verse 21, when Jesus was crucified in his dying breath,
he shouted in glorious victory, it is finished. And it was, it is finished. The word finished means completed. It also means perfect, perfect. What was completed? The mission,
well, among many other things, the mission he had come to do.
At his conception, an angel from God said, you shall call his
name Jesus, meaning Jehovah is salvation. That's his name, and
the reason for his name Jesus is he shall save his people from
their sins. When Jesus shouted, it is finished,
his people were saved. Every one of them, his people
were saved. This is one of the benefits of
his death to us. It is the salvation of God's
people. They are saved from their sins. Second, they are redeemed from
their foolish behavior. 1 Peter 1, verses 18 and 19. Peter tells us, you were not
redeemed with corruptible things like silver or gold. Oh, they're
precious, but they're corruptible. They both may lose value. They may be lost. They may corrode. There are treasures that have
been found in ships that sank. in the seas centuries ago, gold
and silver now tarnished. But you were not redeemed with
corruptible things like silver or gold. But you were redeemed with the
precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without
spot. You were redeemed. There are two terms that are
used in scripture together in speaking of the purchase of God's
children. The purchase itself is redemption. They were redeemed. The price
that was paid was the ransom. Jesus in another place said,
I did not come to be served, but to serve and to give my life
a ransom for many. He redeemed them, and the price
he paid was the ransom, and the ransom was himself, and he paid
it when he shed his own blood. Our redemption is not corruptible,
cannot be lost, will not tarnish, will not lose its effect. We
were redeemed by the precious blood of Christ when Christ died
for us. We were redeemed. At that very
moment, we were redeemed. When he shouted, it is finished.
Third, redeemed from the law's curse. Galatians chapter three,
verse 13. 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. Deuteronomy 21, verse
23. redeemed us from the curse of
the law. The law would be the 10 commandments and every other
statute and judgment that followed them in the book of Exodus, beginning
in chapter 20. Hundreds of commandments. And those commandments told us,
thou shalt do this, thou shalt not do that. Jesus Christ was
born under the law. He came to fulfill the law. When
he did so, he shouted in victory, it is finished on Calvary. He
also said it the very night before in his prayer to his father.
He said, I have finished the work you have given me to do.
Jesus Christ fulfilled the law in two ways. He fulfilled it
in his active or proscriptive obedience when he obeyed every
commandment in the law. And then he suffered the penalty
in his penal or his passive obedience on Calvary because he fulfilled
it for himself in obeying every commandment. But somebody had
to pay for us. Someone had to pay for us and
the laws that we had broken. We had broken God's commandments.
Jesus may die for sinners, but the law still has to be satisfied. It must still be satisfied. Jesus on Calvary, when he said
it is finished, He said, I have redeemed God's people from the
curse of the law. And it's true. Do you realize
that the righteous fulfillment of the law is given to everyone
who believes in Jesus Christ? He redeemed us from the law's
curse. Number four. Christ purchased
us out of the world and unto God, Revelation chapter five,
verse nine. You were slain. That is somewhat
an innocuous term. The Greek means slaughtered,
not just killed, slaughtered. That's what they did to him. They whipped him. They lashed
him in the garrison of the soldiers in Jerusalem. They led him to Calvary, and
there they beat him. He was unrecognizable. He was bloodied, the beard plucked
from his face. He was smitten by men's hands,
swollen. Folks, they slaughtered him.
They slaughtered him. They just did not kill him. They
slaughtered him. People have painted pictures
of the crucifixion. None of them ever show what he
really would have looked like, slaughtered. Led as a lamb to
the slaughter, and there he was slaughtered. You were slaughtered
and you have redeemed or purchased us to God. You did it. Again, the ransom was the price
he paid, but you redeemed us. You purchased us to God by your
blood. His blood was the price of the
purchase. His own blood, his blood. Now
notice this. You did so, you purchased us
out of, those two words are so small but so important, out of
every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He did not purchase
the, everyone without exception universally. This is what some
people teach. He paid the price. He paid the
price of redemption for all without exception universally. That is
not what the text says. He purchased the people out of. Did you catch that? Out of every
tribe and people, language and nation, these were gods elect
and they were purchased, they were redeemed by the precious
blood of Jesus Christ. And his blood was the price that
he paid for their redemption. Number five, justified from guilt. Romans chapter five, verse nine. We have been justified by his
blood. Scriptures speak of three means
by which God's people are justified. Three means. First, we're justified
by grace. This is God's free and sovereign
grace given to his people before time began in old eternity. God was gracious to his people.
He chose them and he said they will be blameless and holy. In saying they will be blameless,
he justified them from all eternity in his decree. When God said
they are blameless, they were without guilt and it was done
before time began. In all eternity by eternal justification,
God justified his people by grace. We're also told that were justified
by faith. At the very moment that we believe
in the gospel of Jesus Christ and trust in Jesus Christ, we
are declared to be righteous. That's what the word justify
means. We are declared to be righteous
before God, the very moment we believe. Believe what? Believe in Jesus Christ and his
death on Calvary. When he said, it is finished,
fulfilled was the prophecy in Isaiah chapter 53, that by his
knowledge, Jehovah said, my righteous servant shall justify many. And he did it. When he said,
it is finished, they were justified. They were
justified in old eternity by God's decree. They were justified
at Calvary by the blood of Jesus Christ. And you cannot do it
by blood unless there is a death. His blood was shed, by his blood
were justified. When we believe the gospel, we're
justified by faith. Faith in what? that which was
done on Calvary and by him who did it, justified by his blood. Well, Christ died for us. If
he died for you, you're justified. Number six, sanctified from the
world and unto God. Hebrews 10 verse 10. We have
been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all. Sanctified. Now, what does that
mean? Means make holy. What is it to
be holy? There are two things involved
in being holy. And by nature, we are not holy. We are unholy. To be made holy,
to be made sanctified, is to have two things done. There must
be a separation from sin in the world, followed by a consecration
unto God. That's what holy is. In sanctification,
God draws his people out of the world and out of their sin, draws
them away from all their sin, all their shame. He draws them
out of the world and then he consecrates them. And he says,
you once belonged to the devil, you now belong to me. You once
run holy, now you're holy. You once were unsanctified and
now you are sanctified. And how can this be? Through
the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Once for all. Where was it offered? On Calvary. When he died for
his people. He offered his body, he offered
his flesh, he offered his blood. It was all an offering to God. And when he said, it is finished,
God said, your people are holy. The people I chose from old eternity,
they are holy. Your blood has cleansed them
from their sin, cleansed them from their guilt. And now they've
been consecrated to me by your blood. They belong to me. These are my children. These
are my sons and daughters. Number seven, cleansed from defilement. Revelation chapter one, verse
five. Jesus Christ washed us from our
sins in his own blood. Washed us. An old prophet said, there shall
be a fountain opened for sin and uncleanness for the house
of David. A fountain opened, the fountain
was opened on Calvary. When a Roman soldier took his
spear and plunged into the side of Jesus Christ and forthwith
came what was remaining of the blood
that was still in his body, a fountain. And there it is, all that blood
that came from Jesus Christ. Oh, it's not only the blood that
came from his side, the blood from his hands dripping down
to the ground, the blood from his feet, the spikes in his hands
and feet, they're on the ground. the blood from his back and his
torso and the rest of his body when he was slaughtered, all
that blood falling down to the ground. And there on the ground
where his blood is, there's a fountain. There's a fountain filled with
blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins and sinners plunged beneath that
stain may lose, that flow may lose their guilty stain. There
it is, the fountains open, the fountains open. And when that
fountains opened, God's people were washed in the blood of Jesus
Christ. They'll continue washing themselves. The revelation tells us that
these that come to glory are those who have washed their garments
in the blood of the lamb. but the first time they were
washed was at Calvary when Christ died for us. One of the most common soaps says, and I suppose they're honest,
our soap is 99 and 44 100% pure. I guess that's about as pure
as you can get soap. Well, this cleansing agent is
100%. 100%. It washes what no soap
can do. Okay, let's see. Number eight,
healed from infirmities. Isaiah 53 verse five, by his
stripes, what stripes? the stripes you could see there
on Calvary, and we do not separate the stripes administered to him
in Pilate's judgment hall or the garrison of the soldiers.
We do not distinguish them and separate them from the stripes
he bore there on Calvary. By his stripes, we are healed. Healed of what? All our diseases. particularly our spiritual diseases,
because all of us are by nature lepers. We've got heart condition. We've
got all kinds of infirmities. Yes, he will cleanse us eventually,
or he will heal us eventually from all our physical infirmities. There'll be no infirm people
in glory. Well, all our diseases, we've
been healed of them. All our spiritual diseases and
infirmities, they were healed. How? By the stripes of Jesus
Christ. By his stripes, we are healed
when Christ died for us. Number nine. delivered from God's
wrath 1st Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 10 Jesus delivers us
from the wrath to come delivers us that deliverance began when he
said it is finished there on that cross deliverance
began and he still delivers because We all run into problems every
day, do we not? We all have bad situations every
day. We need deliverance all the time.
Well, that blood that Jesus Christ shed on Calvary continues to
deliver, continues to cleanse. There's a present tense to all
this. We could also say that this is always true of the blood
of Jesus Christ, because John the apostle tells us that if
we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins,
and the blood of Jesus Christ, God's son, cleanses. Note the present tense. Cleanses. Continues to cleanse us. Continues
to deliver us. from the wrath to come. It's
coming. The world mocks at it. It's coming. God's wrath is coming on iniquity
and sin. It's coming at the last day.
Jesus Christ will bring it. When he comes, the wicked will
say to the mountains, fall on us and hide us from the face
of the Lamb. His wrath has come. and the children
of God will say, hallelujah, he's here. Hallelujah, he's here. And he has delivered us once
again from God's wrath. Number 10, brought to God. Ephesians 2 verse 13. You who
once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Jesus Christ. What do you mean brought near?
Paul writes to two different people, Jews and Gentiles. Now,
the Jews were somewhat near to Jesus. They were of the same
kindred, of the same nation. He grew up a Jew among them. But out over yonder, there's
a bunch of Gentiles. They're up in Europe and Africa
and Asia and North America, South America. Gentiles, well, in the
distance. Well, the drawing power of the
blood of Jesus Christ, what do we read? You who once were far
off, Gentile believers, have been brought near. And how did
we come near? By the precious blood of Jesus
Christ. It not only cleanses us, it not
only saves us, justifies us, sanctifies us, it draws us to
God. Number 11, reconciled unto God,
Romans chapter five, verse 10. When we were enemies, by the
way, did you note that we here have returned to our text in
Romans chapter five? When we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God through the death of his son. All right,
so there's reconciliation. We're looking at 15 things here
this morning through the blood and death of Jesus Christ. And
15 is a pretty good number, but I most certainly am not capable
of exhausting the subject. There will be more. You can look
them up for yourselves. But look at this one. Look at
this one. Reconciled to God. We were enemies. We were at enmity against God. But in Jesus Christ, when he
died on that tree, He is the God-man. He from eternity has
the divine essence, the divine nature. In his humanity, he took
our human nature. He's the only one who could do
so. The one who reconciled had to
be able to take hold of God's hand and take hold of man's hand,
and only he can do it. Only he can do it. And there
on Calvary, in his death, through his blood, he takes God's hand
and man's hand and says, you are enemies against each other,
but in my death, you're reconciled. He reconciled us to God. Reconciled
us to God. It was not so much that he reconciled
to God. God does not need to be reconciled,
but he reconciled us to God. How was it done? Through the
death of Jesus Christ. Number 12, forgiven of debts
to God. Matthew 26, verse 28. For this
is my blood of the new covenant, which is shared for many for
the remission of sins, forgiven, forgiven. Oh, what a debt we
owed. And increasing it daily, exponentially, a debt none of us can pay. Songwriter says, I owed a debt
I could not pay. He paid a debt he did not owe. And he did so. And there is the
ledger before God. There is the ledger. Every sin
is a debt. It's going to be paid for. And
the penalty for every sin is death. I mean, there are no white
lies and gray lies and black lies. They are all death-deserving
lies. And there's the ledger and all
the sins. Do you realize that we're gonna
be judged for our sins one of these days? We're gonna be judged. Everyone must stand before God
to give an account, whether good or bad. And here comes the book. We read the books are open. Who's
next? Moose Parks. Open this book. And it's a big one. And the book
is opened. What are the charges against
that man? Well, your honor, the book is
full of them, but every one of them is covered with the blood
of Jesus Christ. The blood of Jesus Christ, that
blood he shed on Calvary. covered every one of my sins.
He died for us. We who believe this gospel can
know that in his death, our sins were paid. All right, let's see. Number 13, purified in the conscience,
Hebrews 9.14. The blood of Christ who through
the eternal spirit offered himself without blemish to God will purify
your conscience from dead work to serve the living God. The
conscience is purified. All right. Under the old covenant,
there's a priest and an altar and the most holy place in which
there is the ark of the covenant and the mercy seat with the cherubim
over Saturday. And the priest, once a year,
goes into that most holy place with the blood of atonement.
And he takes that blood, he takes the bowl, dips his hyssop into
the bowl, and he sprinkles that blood on the mercy seat, as God
required, and then he backs out. He was allowed in that room one
day a year for this one purpose. And anybody else going in at
any other time was smitten dead. He puts the blood on it. He comes
back outside. He says to the children of Israel,
atonement has been made. And it had been. And yet the people say, why is
it that in my conscience I know sin is still there? I know, my conscience tells me
I'm still a sinner. Well, when Christ died for us,
he went to the most holy place in heaven with his own blood,
put it there on the mercy seat in the heavenly tabernacle and
said, it is finished. And God said, yes, and I'm gonna
purge the conscience of every one of your people. And they
will no longer feel guilty for their sins. They will know that
your blood redeemed them and that we are now reconciled unto
each other. The conscience is pure. Don't be dwelling on what you
did in the past. There's nothing you can do about it. And God
does not hold you accountable for it because it's covered by
the blood of Jesus Christ. Let your conscience be pure,
rejoicing in Jesus Christ. All right, number 14, assurative
eternal life. John chapter three, verses 14
and 15. And there's Moses. lifted up
the serpent in the wilderness, even so must a son of man be
lifted up, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but
have eternal life, assured of eternal life. And all you have to do is believe. Whoever believes, as Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness and said, Look and live. Jesus Christ was lifted up in
the wilderness of Calvary and says, look and live. You look
by believing. Assured to be eternal life. No
one, whoever looks to Jesus Christ will perish. No, not one. Number 15 and last, perfected
forever. I think perhaps I saved the best to last, perfected forever
at least. I love this thought. By one offering, he has perfected
forever those who are being sanctified. Now, God is still sanctifying
his people. He is even right now today. Maybe
he'll do so in this room today. Today, he is drawing his people
out of sin and shame and consecrating them to himself. They are being
sanctified. God is sanctifying his people
every day. They are those who are being
sanctified. But on Calvary, on Calvary, when Jesus said, It is finished. When Christ died for us, God
said, my people are perfect. Perfect. They have a perfect
salvation, a perfect righteousness, a perfect holiness. Everything
about them is perfect in my sight. Well, that's just, that's 15. You can go with that today. blessings
from Christ's death to God's people when Christ died for us.