Why Did Jesus Die based on editing and correcting false doctrine.
According to some people, Jesus died for only those individuals supposedly chosen before they were created. I do not know that I hate anything more in my soul than to hear that. It makes Jesus Christ so little that He should do so much, and after all only provide salvation for a fictional group. And if you come a little closer, when God "made man upright" and he had no sinful nature, what did he do with his innocence? He lost it all! And yet poor presumptuous God has the vanity to think you and I could manage the chance of being saved. What an insult it is to the Lord Jesus Christ to fix the eternal honor of God upon compulsion and not on His glorious and gracious Gospel of Christ. No, No. Thanks be to God for immortal realities and certainties. What is said concerning what Christ has done? He has appeared "to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself;" He has "redeemed those placed in Christ from the curse of the law," from destruction and from the power of the devil; He has "obtained eternal redemption for those placed in Christ;" He has "redeemed those placed in Christ to God." To the honor of the Eternal Trinity it is said, not that the redeemed shall have a chance, but that the redeemed shall "come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." The Lord Jesus Christ has provided the means to do this "great" work; and He has gone to heaven. He rose from the grave as a demonstrative proof that the power of sin was destroyed, and that the law satisfied. Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, one sinner at a time when God places the individual into Christ.
According to some people, Jesus died for only those individuals supposedly chosen before they were created. I do not know that I hate anything more in my soul than to hear that. It makes Jesus Christ so little that He should do so much, and after all only provide salvation for a fictional group. And if you come a little closer, when God "made man upright" and he had no sinful nature, what did he do with his innocence? He lost it all! And yet poor presumptuous God has the vanity to think you and I could manage the chance of being saved. What an insult it is to the Lord Jesus Christ to fix the eternal honor of God upon compulsion and not on His glorious and gracious Gospel of Christ. No, No. Thanks be to God for immortal realities and certainties. What is said concerning what Christ has done? He has appeared "to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself;" He has "redeemed those placed in Christ from the curse of the law," from destruction and from the power of the devil; He has "obtained eternal redemption for those placed in Christ;" He has "redeemed those placed in Christ to God." To the honor of the Eternal Trinity it is said, not that the redeemed shall have a chance, but that the redeemed shall "come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." The Lord Jesus Christ has provided the means to do this "great" work; and He has gone to heaven. He rose from the grave as a demonstrative proof that the power of sin was destroyed, and that the law satisfied. Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, one sinner at a time when God places the individual into Christ.
