Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die | No. 2

Reason No. 2 | To Please His Heavenly Father

Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him;

he has put him to grief.

Isaiah 53:10

Christ loved us and gave himself up for us,

a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Ephesians 5:2

• "[Jesus suffering and dying] was a breathtaking strategy, conceived even before creation, as God saw and planned the history of the world."
• "...[the] substitution of Christ for sinners...was God's idea...This explains the paradox of the New Testament. On one hand, the suffering of Christ is an outpouring of God's wrath because of sin. But on the other hand, Christ's suffering is a beautiful act of submission and obedience to the will of the Father.
• "Oh, that we might worship the terrible wonder of the love of God! It is not sentimental. It is not simple."
• "The wrath-bearer was infinitely loved."

From Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die by John Piper