John Piper
Why Jesus Came to Die
This series of articles is derived from John Piper's "The Passion of Jesus Christ: Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die". Here John discusses why Jesus' death was so important. The following articles are but a few of the fifty reasons he gives behind the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. The main goal of this series is to answer an important question:...
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To Provide the Basis for Our Justification This article is part of an extended series. We have now been...
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To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness This article is part of an extended series. Upon him was the...
This article is part of an extended series. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. - Revelation 1:5-6 Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood. - Hebrews 13:12 Our...
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This article is part of an extended series. How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. - Hebrews 9:14 Dirty conscience Some things never change. The problem of a dirty conscience is as old as Adam and Eve. ...
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This article is part of an extended series. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. - John 3:16 In our happiest times we do not want to die. The wish for death rises only when our suffering seems unbearable. What we really want in those times is not death,...
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This article is part of an extended series. We have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus. - Hebrews 10:19 One of the great mysteries in the Old Testament was the meaning of the worship tent used by Israel called the “tabernacle.” The mystery was hinted at but not clear. When the people of Israel came out of Egypt...
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This article is part of an extended series. You also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead. - Romans 7:4 You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. -...
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This article is part of an extended series. But we see . . . Jesus, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death. - Hebrews 2:9 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exhalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above...
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This article is part of an extended series. The former priests . . . were prevented by death from continuing in office, but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever. Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them. . . . He...
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