I have started to read the book "50 reasons why Jesus came to die" by John Piper. I won't write everything it says there, but just the verses and notes from it and I will do it per year every time Easter and Good Friday comes because probably none of you have the book, but it is a very good book if you are able to buy it, but this will help if you don't want to, but its a very good book.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree." Galatians 3:13
"God put Christ forward as a propitiation by His blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in His divine forbearance He had passed over former sins." Romans 3:25
"In this is love, not that we have loved God but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for ours sins." 1 John 4:10
- God is both just and loving, in which His love is willing to meet the demands of His justice
- sin is dishonouring God by preferring or loving other things over Him and acting on these preferences when we should love Him with all our heart, soul, and might (Deuteronomy 6:5)(Romans 3:23)
- the Creator is infinitely worthy of respect, admiration, and loyalty, but the failure to love is treason basically, which eliminates happiness and defames God. The result in doing this is because God is a just God. (Romans 6:23) (Ezekiel 18:4)
- there is a holy sin over sin, in which not to punish would be unjust. (Galatians 3:10) (Deuteronomy 27:26)
- God won't stop at this no matter how holy the curse is, He will go through with it, but still won't be content so He sends His Son. (Galatians 3:13)
- Propitiation is the removal of God's wrath by providing a substitute, in which this is Himself (Jesus Christ), but He doesn't just cancel the curse or punishment, but also absorbs and diverts it from us to Himself meaning His wrath was just and spent, not withdrawn
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