50 Reasons (Lent 2011)
#1 – To absorb the wrath of God
#2 – To Please His Heavenly Father
#3 – To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected
#4 – To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead
#5 – To Show the Wealth of God’s Love and Grace for Sinners
#6 – To Show His Own Love for Us
#7 – To Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us
#8 – To Become a Ransom for Many
#9 – For the Forgiveness of Our Sins
#10 – To Provide the Basis for Our Justification
#11 – To Complete the Obedience That Becomes Our Righteousness
#12 – To Take Away Our Condemnation
#13 – To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation
#14 – To Bring us to Faith and To Keep us Faithful
#15 – To Make Us Holy, Blameless, and Perfect
#16 – To Give Us a Clear Conscience
#17 – To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us
#18 – To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness
#19 – To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him
#20 – To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age
#23 – So That We Might Belong to Him
#24 – To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place
#25 – To Become for Us the Place Where We Meet God
#26 – To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become the Eternal High Priest
#27 – To Become a Sympathetic and Helpful Priest
#28 – To Free Us From the Futility of Our Ancestry
#29 – To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin
#30 – That We Might Die to Sin and Live to Righteousness
#31 – So That We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for God
#32 – To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves
#33 – To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our Boasting
#34 – To Enable Us to Live by Faith in Him
#35 – To Give Marriage Its Deepest Meaning
#36 – To Create a People Passionate for Good Works
#37 – To Call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love
#38 – To Create a Band of Crucified Followers
#39 – To Free Us from Bondage to the Fear of Death
#40 – So That We Would Be with Him Immediately After Death
#41 – To Secure Our Resurrection from the Dead
#42 – To Disarm the Rulers and Authorities
#43 – To Unleash the Power of God in the Gospel
#44 – To Destroy the Hostility Between Races
#45 – To Ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation
#46 – To Gather All His Sheep from Around the World
#47 – To Rescue Us From Final Judgement
#48 – To Gain His Joy And Ours