Motives Why Christ Died For Us:
To Demonstrate God’s Love and His Grace
“For one will scarcely die for a righteous person – though perhaps for a good person
one would dare even to die – but God shows his love for us in that while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:7-8). One of the biggest questions there is to
ask is, why does God love us? To answer that you need to understand God’s
character and your unworthiness. God loves us because He loves us. We don’t
deserve His love nor could we ever earn it. We are so unworthy that we are not
even worth the dirt. God killed Uzzah for trying to protect the ark from falling
but God wasn’t worried about the ark falling to the ground. He didn’t want man
to touch the ark (1 Chronicles 13:9-10).
God’s love can be shown by the degree of our unworthiness. He tells the
stars in the sky to go to their locations He has ordained them to be and they all
obey. He tells the mountains to rise and the valleys to sink and they all bow in
reverence. He tells the planets to orbit this path and they obey. He tells the great
seas of the earth to come this far and come no more and the bow. And He turns
to man; and He says “come.” And man says “no, I will not.” We deserve divine
punishment but God shown divine sacrifice.
If you consider the distance between human and the divinity of God; this is
sacrifice. Jesus Christ is the Son of God and He humbled Himself to a lowly
creature such as man that is not even worth the dirt. “But God shows his love for us
in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
God “gave his only son” (John 3:16), Jesus Christ. This is a name
established on the Greek label Christos, or “Messiah” or “Anointed One.” Thus
God sent His only Son who was divine anointed King over the world (Isaiah 9:6-
7). Imagine one of our greatest presidents or government leaders sacrificing for a
handful of Adolf Hitler’s. But this is such a bad analogy because we humans can’t
imagine the unworthiness of ourselves and the holiness of God. God is
transcendent separated from us.
DwellingWithGod.com To Demonstrate God’s Love and His Grace By Jay Gheen
Motives Why Christ Died For Us:
To Demonstrate God’s Love and His Grace
“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses
according to the riches of his grace” (Ephesians 1:7). And God’s grace is full of
riches. His grace is entirely free. God’s grace is not a response of our worth
because we are not worthy but only deserve wrath. Yet, God’s grace is not a
response of our unworthiness. God gave us grace because He chose. He loved us
because He loved us.
DwellingWithGod.com To Demonstrate God’s Love and His Grace By Jay Gheen