Why Did Jesus Die? (Packet of 100, NKJV)

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This question is of vital importance because your eternal destiny depends upon your answer to it. Do you know why Jesus died? If not, I believe God has sent me across your path to tell you.

In God's Word, the Bible, we learn that death came into the world because of sin. "Through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned" (Romans 5:12). "The wages of sin is death" (Romans 6:23). You and I die because we are sinners; we have forfeited our right to live on the earth. "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23).

Did Jesus die because He had sinned? No. Listen to the inspired Word: "In Him there is no sin" (1 John 3:5); "Who committed no sin" (1 Peter 2:22); "Who knew no sin" (2 Corinthians 5:21). Therefore, death had no claim upon Him. But, blessed be His Name, He "gave Himself for our sins" (Galatians 1:4). It was love to you and me that caused the Lord Jesus Christ to come down from heaven and die on Calvary's cross. It was love to us that held Him on that shameful cross until He had finished the work of atonement to the glory of God.

A holy, righteous, just God cannot let sin go unpunished. On the cross the Lord Jesus bore God's judgment against sin in our stead, as our substitute; and now God is offering not only forgiveness, but also justification to the repentant sinner who believes in Jesus. He is "just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus" (Romans 3:26). God showed His approval of that mighty work by raising the Lord Jesus from among the dead and seating Him at His own righ...