Five Reasons for the Death of Christ

Q: What does the Bible say about the death of Christ?

The death of Christ is significant because He suffered for our sins, the just for the unjust, bringing us to God. The Bible emphasizes the importance of Christ's death in several key ways. Firstly, He suffered for our sins, as stated in 1 Peter 3:18, which highlights that Christ, who had no sin, bore the sins of others on the cross. This is further supported by Isaiah 53, which describes Him as the one who was wounded for our transgressions. Furthermore, Christ died the just for the unjust, fulfilling the law and satisfying the justice of God. His death was purposeful—it aimed to reconcile His chosen people to God and accomplish God’s overarching plan of salvation, as affirmed in passages like 2 Timothy 1:9 and Hebrews 9:26.

Q: How do we know Christ's death was for our sins?

Scripture testifies that Christ suffered for our sins and bore them in His body, fulfilling God's will for salvation. We know Christ's death was for our sins through the explicit testimony of Scripture. 1 Peter 3:18 declares that 'Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust.' This indicates that Jesus, being sinless Himself, took on the punishment meant for us, the unrighteous. In 2 Corinthians 5:21, it further states that 'He who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.' This profound exchange illustrates how Christ's death served as atonement for our sins, showcasing both His love and God's justice in dealing with sin. Isaiah 53 reinforces this understanding by portraying the suffering servant as one who 'bore our sorrows' and 'was wounded for our transgressions.'

Q: Why is Christ's role as just important for Christians?

Christ's role as the just one is crucial because He satisfied divine justice through His perfect obedience and sacrificial death. Christ's role as the just one is essential for Christians because it establishes His righteousness as the foundation for our salvation. In Acts 22:14, Christ is referred to as the just one, affirming His sinlessness and perfect obedience to the Father. This perfection is necessary because the law requires sinlessness for justification. Therefore, by dying the just for the unjust, He fulfilled the demands of the law and made a way for unrighteous sinners to be declared righteous before God. Romans 3:19-26 clarifies this by explaining how the just God must be just while justifying those who have faith in Jesus. Thus, recognizing Christ's just nature not only brings glory to God's holiness but reassures believers of their secure standing in Christ.

Dear, but sanctify the Lord God in
your hearts. In other words, let's glorify
God in our hearts. Let's give Him all the glory
for all things, not just with our mouths, but from our hearts. Sanctify God. Revere Him. Worship Him. Hold Him in all, in your heart,
in all things. And be ready, be always ready,
always ready to give an answer to every man that asks you a
reason of the hope that's in you. Be ready to reply if a fellow
asks you, well, what's the reason for your hope? Be ready to answer.
My hope is Christ. Christ in you, that's the hope
of glory. I have a good hope through grace, by the grace of
God, through the righteousness and blood of Christ. He's my
hope. My hope is in Him, a person. Be ready to give an answer, always,
for that hope, that hope that's in you. And do it with, do it
with humility. Do it with humility and do it
with fear. Do it with reverence, knowing
that the difference, God made the difference. what we have
God gave us. He made the difference. And then
in verse 16, he says, having a good conscience, having a good
conscience, that whereas they speak evil of you. Now, folks
are going to ridicule you for your faith. If you love Christ,
you love the gospel, the gospel of His grace in Christ Jesus,
they're going to speak evil of you. They'll They ridicule those
who trust in the Savior and love Him and believe Him. They'll
hold you up as an evildoer. But now you have a good conscience
that they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation
in Christ. Just be sure that their accusations
are not true. Adorn the doctrine of God our
Savior in all things. Having a good conscience toward
God. Now look at verse 17. It's certainly better. Our Lord
warned us that we will be despised and hated of me. And that's to
be expected. He said they hated me and they'll
hate you. If they loved me, they'd love you. If they received my
word, they'd receive your word. But they hate the gospel and
they'll ridicule you. He warned us of that. We'll suffer
for the sake of the gospel. Turn to John. Let me read this
to you in John 16. This is what he told his disciples
in John 16. Listen to these words. John 16,
verse 1. The Master said, These things
have I spoken unto you, that you should not be offended. They'll
put you out of the synagogue. Yea, the time cometh that whosoever
killeth you will think he does God a service. And these things
will they do unto you, because you have not known the Father,
nor me. But these things have I told
you, that when the time comes that you are harassed and persecuted for what
you believe, despised, that when that time comes, You may remember,
I told you of them. And these things I said not unto
you at the beginning, because I was with you, but now I go
my way to him that sent me," and so forth. So He's... Our
Lord warned His disciples of how men would treat them and
how they would mistreat them. And He said here in verse 7,
back in our text in I Peter 3, 17, Peter said, it's better If the will of God be so, you
suffer for well doing than for evil doing. They're suffering
for evil doing. You're suffering for good well doing, for the
gospel of Christ. That's a good, that's a good,
that's a good reason to suffer. That's a good reason to suffer,
for Christ's sake. And then verse 18, for Christ
is our example. Now, this is the way this verse
is used, and this is the, This is how the Apostle Peter, setting
forth the sacrifice of Christ in this passage of Scripture,
he said, here's your example. For Christ also hath once suffered
for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. In other words, he's encouraging
believers that suffer for what they believe, for the gospel
they preach and the gospel they believe. He said Christ suffered.
Christ suffered and is given unto you not only to believe
on Him but to suffer for His sake. You'll bear the reproach
of Christ. But I want to use this verse
to declare the gospel this morning. I know this is, I give it to
you this way because that's the way it's set forth in the Scripture.
He's using it as our example. Christ is our example in all
things. especially in suffering. But I want to show you five glorious
things that stand out in this verse of Scripture here, verse
18, 1 Peter 3, five glorious things that stand out here in
His death on the cross and why He suffered, why He died. Now, here's the first one. In
verse 18, it says, For Christ also hath once, one time, suffered
for sin. Suffered for sin. Not his own
sins, but our sins. He had no sins. He bore our sins
in his body on the tree. In 2 Corinthians 5, 21, it says,
he who knew no sin was made sin for us, that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him. He suffered for sins, but not
his own sins. He suffered for our sins. Turn
to Isaiah 53. He suffered for ours. Christ
has once suffered for sin. That's why He died on the cross.
That's the reason for His death. He suffered for sin. Here in
Isaiah 53, verse 3, listen. He's despised and rejected of
men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, And we hid, as it
were, our faces from him. He's despised. We esteemed him
not. But listen, surely he hath borne
our griefs, and he hath carried our sorrows. And we did esteem
him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted, but he was wounded
for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him. by His stripes were healed. He
suffered for my sins, your sins. Christ suffered for sin. He suffered
to make reconciliation. He suffered for our sins to put
them away. The Scripture says to put them
away. He appeared once in the end of the world to put away
sin. By the sacrifice of Himself, He suffered to obtain remission.
He suffered to make an end to sin. Let's turn to II Corinthians
chapter 5, 2 Corinthians chapter 5, verse 18. Look at this with me, 2 Corinthians
5, 18. And all things are of God, all
things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself, and hath given
to us this ministry of reconciliation, to wit, that's namely, namely,
that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing
their trespasses unto them. And that committed to us the
word of reconciliation. Why did Christ die on the cross?
He suffered for sins. He suffered for sins. He suffered
for our sins. He suffered, actually, from the
cradle to the grave for our sins. He was a man of sorrows, acquainted
with grief from the cradle to the grave. His lowly birth was
a form of suffering. No room in the inn. Humiliation. His family, the town in which
he lived. Can anything good come out of
Nazareth? Satan's contempt. That was suffering. Satan's temptation. That was suffering, the contradiction
of heathen sinners. They flew in his face, despised
him, mocked him. That's suffering. The abuse of
the Pharisees, of the soldiers, of the people, the wrath of the
father, the pain of the nails. His soul was made an offering
for sin. My soul is sorrowful even unto
death. Our Lord suffered. Suffered. But he suffered for sins. That's
what it's all about. You see, God will punish sin. And when sin was found on Christ,
not his, but ours, he suffered. He suffered for sin. All right,
that's the first reason for the cross. He suffered for sin. Now here's the second reason.
He suffered the just for the unjust. You see, the law of God
and the justice of God are both involved in the death of Christ.
We had broken the law, and Christ suffered for our sin. And the
justice of God had a claim on us, and Christ dealt with the
justice of God. It says here, He suffered the
just for the unjust. Who is the just? That's Christ. Who's the unjust? That's us.
Turn with me to Acts chapter 22. He's called the just one.
The just one. Because he's holy in nature.
Acts chapter 22. Turn over there. He's holy in
nature. He's holy in his life. He's holy
in his spirit. He's holy in his thoughts. He's
holy in his action. He perfectly obeyed the Father.
He said, I didn't come to destroy the law, I came to fulfill it.
Of him the Father said, I'm well pleased. He's called God's righteous
servant. He's the just one. Just one. The only one who can claim that
title, the just one. In Acts 22, When Saul of Tarsus
had been blinded on the road to Damascus, and he went down
to Damascus and went to the place where God told him to go, and
the Lord sent a preacher to him called Ananias. Ananias came
to him in verse 13 of Acts 22, and he said this, Ananias came
unto me and said unto me, Brother Saul, receive thy sight. And the same hour I looked up
upon him, and he said, The God of our fathers hath chosen thee,
that thou shouldest know his will, and see the just one."
Capital J-U-S-T, capital O-N-E, that thou should see the just
one, and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. Who is that? Who's
the just one? That's Christ. He died the just
for the unjust, the just one. One other verse, turn over, turn
over to Isaiah 45. He calls himself, in Isaiah 45,
a savior. He says, look unto me and be
ye saved, all the ends of the earth, I am God. But he calls
himself something else in this passage, in Isaiah 45, verse
21. Isaiah 45, 21, "...tell ye, bring
them near, yea, let them take counsel together. Who hath declared
this from ancient times? Who hath told it from that time?
Have not I the Lord?" Now listen, "...and there is no God else
beside me, a just God and a Savior." If you don't have a just God,
you don't have a Savior. You've got to have a just one.
That's what it says over here. Why did Christ die? First, He
suffered for our sins. Secondly, He suffered as the
just one, the just one, for the unjust. He's the just one. We're the unjust. We're unholy
in nature. We're destitute of righteousness.
We're full of unrighteousness. Even Isaiah said, even our righteousness
is a filthy rag. We're unjust. And he suffered
the just for the unjust. Turn to Romans 3. Romans chapter
3. Romans chapter 3, verse 19. What does the law require? What does the law say? Do this
and live. That's what the law requires.
The law requires perfection. Well, we don't have perfection.
Then what does the law say? Look at Romans 3, 19. Now we
know that what things wherever the law saith, it saith to them
who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all
the world may become guilty, guilty, guilty before God. What
does the law require? Perfection. What does the law
say? Guilty. Well, what can the law
do then? Well, turn to Galatians 3. Let's
see what the law does. If the law requires perfection
and the law says guilty, what then does the law do? It curses. In Galatians 3, verse 10, "...for
as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse." For it is written, Cursed is
every one that continueth not in all things written in the
book of the law to do them." The law curses. Well, what did
Christ do? Look at verse 13. Christ hath
redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us. For it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on a tree. There are two things that you
and I have to be concerned about. Two things we have to be concerned
about. We have to be concerned about
the unchanging holy law of God. Have to be. And secondly, we
have to be concerned about the justice of God, who said He will
by no means clear the guilty. But I tell you, when we have
a Redeemer who suffered for sin, and died the just for the unjust,
that he might honor God's righteousness and holiness for us, then our
concern is taken away in Christ. We rest. We have peace. Why did
Christ die? To satisfy the law. Why did Christ
die? To satisfy the justice of God.
He suffered for sin. He died the just for the unjust.
All right, what's this next line there? He died in 1 Peter 3,
18, that He might bring us to God. That He might bring us to God.
The death of Christ had to do on behalf of His people with
the law of God, with the justice of God, but it had to do with
the purpose of God. The purpose of God. God Almighty,
according to Scripture, purposed from all eternity to have a people.
New heaven, new earth, and a people to inhabit that heaven and that
new earth. Turn to Isaiah chapter 46, the
purpose of God. Isaiah 46, listen to it. And
this purpose is an everlasting purpose. He calls it an everlasting
covenant. We use the word purpose. Well,
the word purpose also means covenant. A covenant, His covenant is His
purpose. And Isaiah 46 says in verse 9,
Remember the former things of old, I'm God, and there's none
else. I'm God and there's none like
me. I declare the end from the beginning. That's the end of
everything. I declare the end from the beginning.
I have a purpose. The end will accomplish my purpose. That's what he said. Read on.
From ancient times of things that are not yet done, I declare,
I'm saying, my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. I call a ravenous bird from the
east, the man that executed my counsel from a far country, yea,
I've spoken it, I'll bring it to pass, I've purposed it, I've
purposed it, I'll do it." Now what's his purpose? 2 Timothy 1, 9. Turn over there.
2 Timothy 1, 9. Now follow this and listen to
it. 2 Timothy 1, 9. Listen carefully. Here's purpose. He says in 2 Timothy 1, 9, "...he
hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according
to our works, but according to his own purpose." and grace which
was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began." Purpose. Why did Christ, down on the cross,
honor the law, suffer for sin, to satisfy God's justice, God's
holy demands upon the guilty, the just for the unjust? Thirdly,
that he might bring us Who's us? The elect that He might bring
us to God, that He might bring us to God, accomplish God's purpose. You see, His death was purpose
before the foundation of the world. That's what it says. He
had God's purpose in grace before the foundation of the world,
before the world began. Let me show you some Scripture.
Turn to Hebrews 9, verse 26. Hebrews 9, 26. Well, let's go to Hebrews 4 first.
I want to read Hebrews 4, verse 3 first. Listen. "'For we which have believed
do enter into rest,' as he said, as I have sworn in my wrath,
they shall not enter into my rest, although the works were
finished from the foundation of the world.'" That's God's
purpose. His works, His everlasting covenant,
His purpose is I declare the end from the beginning. I purposed
it. I'll bring it to pass." And he
said this, the works were finished. Now Hebrews 9, listen, verse
26, "...for then must he often have
suffered since the foundation of the world. But once in the
end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice
of himself." You see, Christ has been our Savior from the
foundation of the world. And He doesn't, like the Old
Testament priests, go often into the Holy of Holies. He'd had
to be doing that since the foundation of the world. See, these Old
Testament priests were but types and pictures and promises of
Christ who is to come. Their sacrifices could not put
away sin. They were types and pictures.
And they entered every year into the holy place made with hands.
Well, Christ entered not the holy place made with hands, but
heaven itself by one offering to perfect forever them that
are sanctified. And if he were only like them,
he'd been doing that since the foundation of the world. But
he did it once in the end of time, in the last days. All right. Turn to 1 Peter 1.20. 1 Peter
1.20. 1 Peter 1, 19 says, "...we are
redeemed with the precious blood of Christ as a Lamb without blemish
and without spot, who barely was foreordained before the foundation
of the world." Foreordained for what? To fulfill God's purpose,
to accomplish God's salvation, to bring in God's covenant, to
bring us to God. He's the Lamb. who was ordained
before the foundation of the world. Turn now to Revelation
13. Revelation 13. It says here in Revelation 13, verse
8, listen to this scripture. And all that dwell upon the earth
shall worship him, the false Christ, whose names are not written
in the Book of Life." Of whom? Of the Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. Our Scripture says here, Christ,
why did He die? Number one, He died for sinners,
and died for our sin. Number two, He died the just,
holy one, for the unjust. Number three, He died to bring
us to God. us while we were chosen in Christ
before the foundation of the world. We were given to Christ
before the foundation of the world. We were God's elect to
accomplish God's purpose. That's what the scripture declares.
I want you to turn to Acts chapter 2 and listen to Peter's sermon
on Pentecost here. Acts chapter 2, verse, begin
reading with verse 24. Verse 22, Acts 2, verse 22, "...Ye
men of Israel," now hear these words, "...Jesus of Nazareth,
a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs,
which God did by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves also
know, him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge
of God, You have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and
slain." God delivered him into your hands to accomplish his
purpose, his everlasting purpose, his purpose which he purposed
in Christ before the world began, the purpose of him who worketh
all things after the counsel of his own will. That's right. In just one page over in Acts
4, the disciples were praying one day. This is a prayer which
they offered unto God. after he had enabled them to
escape from jail. In Acts 4, verse 26, he said,
"...the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered
together against the Lord and against his Christ, for of a
truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed,
both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people
of Israel were gathered together to do whatsoever your hand and
your counsel determined long before to be done." Why did Christ
die? To bring us to God. He has an
elect people, He has a covenant people for whom He died to bring
them to God. To bring them to God. To accomplish...
Let me show you this over in in 1 Corinthians 15. 1 Corinthians 15. Now, this is
so powerful here. 1 Corinthians 15, verse 24. Listen
to it. 1 Corinthians 15, 24. Then cometh the end, when he
shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father, when
he shall have put down all rule and all authority and all power,
for he must reign. till he puts all enemies under
his feet, the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith,
All things are put unto him, it is manifest that he is accepted,
which did put all things. The Father is not under the Son.
And when all things shall be subdued unto him," everything
God purposed and planned and decreed and covenanted, everything,
then, shall the Son also himself be subject unto the Father, that
put all things unto him, that God may be all in all." Why did
Christ die? To bring us to God. All that
my Father giveth me will come to me, and him that cometh to
me I will in no wise cast out. I came down from heaven not to
do my own will, but the will of him that sent me, and this
is the will of him that sent me, that of all which he hath
given me I lose nothing. but raise it up at the last day.
All right, fourthly, back to our text, 1 Peter 3, 18. Why
did Christ die? He suffered for sin. Two, just
for the unjust. Three, that He might bring us
to God. Four, being put to death in the
flesh. Christ on the cross dealt with
the law. Christ on the cross dealt with
justice. Christ on the cross dealt with the purpose of God
and accomplished it. Christ on the cross dealt with
our flesh. He died in the flesh. He was
put to death in the flesh. His death had to do with the
flesh. That which is flesh, that which is born of the flesh is
flesh, and flesh and blood shall never inherit the kingdom of
God. The flesh has to die. Now, how did death come into
the world? This thing called death. Our Lord died. We're going
to die. How did death come into the world?
Turn to Romans chapter 5. Romans chapter 5, verse 12. How did death, where
did death come from? God didn't create death on this
earth. Man wasn't created to die, he
was created to live. Where did death come from? Verse
12, Wherefore, as by one man sin entered this world, and death,
physical death and spiritual death, and death by sin, so death
passed upon all men for all sin. Spiritual death and physical
death came because of sin. Sin brought death. The flesh. 1 Corinthians 15, if you don't
want to turn to it, listen to this, O death, where is your
sting? Oh, grave, where's your victory? The sting of death is
sin. And the strength of sin is the
law. Sin is the sting of death. Sin brought death. Sin's the
reason for death. Sin in our flesh. And sin exercises
its power upon the soul through the abuse of the law. And flesh,
this flesh, cannot inherit the kingdom of God. So what'd Christ
do? He came down here. in the flesh. Bone of our bone, flesh of our
flesh. He was our representative. He was made flesh. He dwelt among
us. He bore our sins. He identified
himself with us. And turn to Romans 8, and I'll
show you what he did. Romans 8, verse 3. Romans 8,
verse 3. For what the law could not do,
It was weak through the flesh. The law can't save. The law can't
deliver. The law can't bring us to God
because of our flesh. Our flesh is doomed. Our flesh
is damned. Our flesh is cursed. Our flesh
has got to go to the grave. It's got to be buried. It's got
to die and be buried. So what the law could not do
because it was weak through the flesh, the weakness of the flesh,
God sending His own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh, and
for sin, on that cross, condemned sin in the flesh. As a sinner,
he died. As a man, he died. As a substitute,
he died. As our representative, he died.
As our sacrifice, he died. And because he died, we don't
die. That's it. Because he died. This old flesh,
it's gone, it's put away. The power of it, the curse of
it, the judgment of it, it's all put away. Christ died for
us. That's what it says here, He
was put to death in the flesh. Well, here's the last thing.
What do you accomplish? Resurrection. Thank God we don't
stop there. It says, and He was put to death
in the flesh. And a lot of folks think when
you go to the cemetery and put this body in the ground that
that's it. No, that's not it. Our Lord, when He died on that
cross, He died and His body stayed on that cross. That flesh stayed
on that cross. And His soul went to God. His
soul went to God. Paul said writing about He said,
when our earthly house of this tabernacle, because Christ died,
this is the reason, that our earthly house of this tabernacle
be folded up and put away, we have a building of God, a house
not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. So when I do
die someday, I don't die, my flesh dies. I go to be with God. That's what Christ did when he
died on that cross, his soul went to God. His body was dead
body on the tree. They took it down carefully and
tenderly and affectionately. They took it down, but it was
dead. And laid it in a sheet and washed it and adorned it
with sweet odors and fragrances and wrapped it up and laid it
in a tomb. And that's what they'll do with
us, lay it in a tomb. Christ sanctified the believer's flesh.
He redeemed not only our soul, but our bodies. They took that
body down tenderly and put it in the ground, in the grave.
And his soul was with the Father. But that wasn't the end. He was
raised from the dead. He was quickened. He was raised
from the grave. When those women came to the
grave the next, the day, the morning of the first day of the
week, the angel said, he's not here, he's risen. He's quickened
by the Spirit. And because we're crucified with
Christ and buried with Christ in this flesh and risen with
Christ, when He returns, we shall come with Him and our bodies
will be raised. And we'll have new flesh, glorified
flesh. When our Lord came out of the
grave, He met with His disciples and He ate with them. And they
thought He was a ghost, a spirit. He said, oh no. He said, a ghost
doesn't have flesh. He said, reach out your hand
and touch my flesh. But it wasn't that flesh that
bore sin. It wasn't in the likeness of
sinful flesh. When he was raised, he had glorified. That which is weak must be strong. Corrupt shall be incorrupt. Mortal
shall be immortal. And Christ died on that cross
in the flesh, the likeness of sinful flesh, what we're in now.
And he was buried. Scapegoat. Shows that old scapegoat
being led off. Deserted. But he came out new
flesh. Glorified flesh. Quickened. That's why he died. That's why
he died. For you and me. Believers. He died for our sins. Satisfy
the Lord. He died under the justice of
God. To honor God's justice. He died to accomplish God's purpose
and bring us to God. He died, and you might deal with
this old flesh. You see, folks that don't have
a Savior got to deal with this flesh. As they die, they're going
to stand before God in the flesh, in the corrupt, wretched, sinful
flesh. Not new flesh. In this old flesh,
this old natural body, and be damned. But we're going to have
a new body, because He was quickened. He was quickened by the Spirit
of God. that shall also quicken your
mortal bodies." That's good news. That's good news. All right,
let's sing 256. It's, Well with My Soul, number
256.

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