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Why Did Jesus Have to Die?

Why Did Jesus Have to Die?

This week I visited another website where a young lady asked, “Has anyone made a list of Bible verses that tell us why Jesus came here and lived and died for us?”

I responded briefly with three texts, Heb 2:14, 2 Tim 1:10, and 1 John 3:8 that I suggested summed up the reasons Christ came to earth and died. Someone replied asking where is the Gospel, the Good News, in these texts? Below is my reply:

These three text sum up the entirety of Christ’s mission and the Gospel, here’s how:

The gospel is the good news about the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is the kingdom of love – God is love, His character is love, the law upon which the universe is constructed to operate is love. How do these three text demonstrate the good news about the God who is love and His kingdom of love?

By His death Christ destroys him who holds the power of death, that is the devil – Heb 2:14

What is the devil’s power of death?

This is life eternal that they might know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. – John 17:3

If eternal life is knowing God, then eternal death is not knowing God. What then is Satan’s power of death? The lies he tells about God that keep us from knowing Him. What then is the “Gospel” in this passage? What destroys lies about God? The truth about God as revealed by Jesus, thus it is the Good News about God, as revealed by Christ, that destroys the devil’s power of death.

Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. – 2 Tim 1:10

How did Jesus’ death destroy death? The law of love is the law of life, the law upon which all life in the universe was designed to operate. Death comes as the natural result of breaking the law of love, just like death comes as the natural result of breaking the law of respiration by tying a plastic bag over your head. Christ destroyed death by perfectly restoring the law of love, the basis for life, into mankind and overcoming the inherent infection of fear and selfishness (survival of the fittest).  He did this when, in His humanity, He chose to surrender His life in love rather than use His power to save Himself. Thus, in Christ, love overcame the infection of selfishness. The Good News – “The law of the Lord is Perfect Reviving the Soul” i.e. the kingdom of Love, emanating from the God of Love is Life and destroys death.

 The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. – 1 John 3:8

What was the devil’s work? To misrepresent God, initially by lies, but then by co-opting mankind, who was created in God’s image, to reveal God’s character and replace God’s law of love with Satan’s law of selfishness (survival of the fittest) in the heart of man. Christ took our infirmity, our sinful condition upon Himself in order to heal, fix, and resolve the sin problem. He did this by perfectly restoring God’s character of love back into the species human. In His human brain Christ lived God’s law of love perfectly, revealing the true character of God that Adam was created to reveal. Thus, He destroyed the devil’s work.

So, when we understand the kingdom of God is the kingdom of love and we understand the devil’s power is lies, which, when believed, sever the circle of love, resulting in death, and the devil’s work is to destroy the image of God in man, then we can understand how the Good News about God’s character of love shines through in these three bible verses (and many more).

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