why did jesus die? to kill sin

Ernie & Rohan Prabhakar

Why Did Jesus Die?

Kingsway Rose GardenApril 28, 2013

Kingsway.usSan Jose, CA

New City Catechism

• Q24: Why was it necessary for Christ, the Redeemer, to die?

• Since death is the punishment for sin, Christ died willingly in our place to deliver us from the power and penalty of sin and bring us back to God.

• By his substitutionary atoning death, he alone redeems us from hell and gains for us forgiveness of sin, righteousness, and everlasting life.

A Brief Confession

St. Paul

Romans 5:6-10 (NIV)

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.

But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him!

For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!

Romans 6:3-10 (NIV)

Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

St. Rohan

“To Kill Sin”

We Need To Know

• What it is

• Where it is

• How to kill it

What Is Sin

Missing the Mark

Not fulfilling our purpose

Our Purpose

• To Enjoy Everything in God

• As He Glorifies Himself

• In and Through Us

• As Part of His Family

• On Mission

• Together

• With Him

Isaiah 58:11-12 (NIV)

The Lord will guide you always;    he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land    and will strengthen your frame.

You will be like a well-watered garden,    like a spring whose waters never fail.

Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins    and will raise up the age-old foundations;

You will be called Repairer of Broken Walls,    Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.

Redemption

• “The Lord will guide you always”

• Head

• “You will be like a well-watered garden”

• Heart

• “Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins”

• Hand

Holiness

• Know What’s Right

• Head

• Want What’s Right

• Heart

• Do What’s Right

• Hand

Spreading the Kingdom

Promise Plan Problem

Head “Guide”Divine

DirectionMental

Confusion

Heart “Garden”Personal

FlourishingIntentionalRebellion

Hand “Rebuild”Societal

TransformationVisceral

Compulsion

Holiness

Do

Wan

t Know

Heart

Hand

Head

Self

Sin

Compulsion

Rebe

llion

ConfusionSelf

Heart

Hand

Head

Where Is Sin

Is Sin Real?

Define Reality

• “The Extra-Credit Question From Hell”

• Define the Universe.

• Give Three Examples.

The Objective Reality behind our

Subjective Experience

Three Universes

Experience Reality Name

Head Think Logical Logos

Heart Feel Spiritual Pneuma

Hand Touch Physical Cosmos

One Reality

Cosmos

Pneu

ma Logos

Heart

Hand

Head

GOD

Universal Corruption

PhysicalCompulsion

Spiri

tual

Rebe

llion

Logical

Confusion

Heart

Hand

Head

SIN

How To Kill Sin

Comprehensive Redemption

PhysicalTransformation

Spiri

tual

Flou

rishi

ngLogical

Direction

Heart

Hand

Head

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Only Christ’sPhysical Death

Could Kill All Sin

Head

• From Confusion to Direction

• “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Romans 5:8

Heart

• From Rebellion to Flourishing

• “For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!”

Romans 5:10

Hand

• From Compulsion to Transformation

• “For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.

• For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.”

Romans 6:5-7

Response

The End

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