Christ Died To Bring You To God
August 20, 2008 – 7:16 pmThe Cross doesn’t show us how amazing we are. The Cross shows us how amazing God is.
I don’t go out of my way to get you to use Google Talk, Gmail, Google Docs, etc. because I think you’re amazing. I do it because I think they’re amazing. My love for you, as demonstrated by me commending Gmail to you, is not based on how amazing you are. My love for you plays itself out by me working for your good – using Gmail 
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Gmail is pretty amazing, but it isn’t that amazing. I wouldn’t die so that you would use Gmail. But there is something worth dying for:
For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. – 1 Peter 3:18
Why did God die for us? Because He loves us:
God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. – Romans 5:8
How does that love play itself out? By working for our ultimate good. By bringing us to God!
How much is God worth? How good/satisfying is God? We get a glimpse of that when we see what God was willing to do to bring us to himself.
The incomparable terror of God pouring out his wrath on Jesus points to the value that God places in Jesus. Jesus was terrorized so that we might be satisfied in Jesus above all things, and see that Jesus is satisfying above all things!
-Ben
