WHY
DID CHRIST DIE?
“For
I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how
that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures.” 1Corinthians
15:3
The death of our Lord Jesus Christ was more than a judicial rendering
of the demands of God’s holy law for the punishment of our sins. Indeed
and in truth it was that. However, the reason or cause of our Redeemer
giving His life a ransom for His sheep I feel is equally important
and much too often passed over in our haste to be doctrinally correct.
The Divine motive of this incomprehensible transaction was the everlasting
love of the Triune God for His children - “In this was manifested
the love of God toward us, because that God sent His only begotten
Son into the world, that we might live through Him” 1John 4:9.
Had there been no love for us there would have been no Redeemer
provided. The glory of God is most perfectly and completely revealed
in the Son of His love giving His life for those whom He loved. Oh
what love, wondrous love, for me was shown! When we by faith see our
Saviour dying we must not only see justice satisfied, we must see
God’s love fulfilled, magnified, and glorified! - “Now when I passed
by thee, and looked upon thee, behold, thy time was the time of love;
and I spread my skirt over thee, and covered thy nakedness: yea, I
sware unto thee, and entered into a covenant with thee, saith the
Lord GOD, and thou becamest Mine” Ezekiel 16:8. God is
satisfied as He rests in His love! Not only did Christ die to satisfy
the Justice of God legally, He died to express His love in deed that
we might live and forever be with Him in glory. The love of God and
the death of Christ is so much in harmony that Justice smiles, closes
the book, strikes the desk with It’s gavel and declares from the courts
of heaven and echoes throughout eternity, “Case closed. All charges
against the accused are dismissed”. Now if that is not good news for
a wretch such as the likes of me, I don’t know what is!
“I’m
redeemed by love Divine! Glory, Glory, Christ is mine!
-
Tommy
