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Description: Bestselling author John Piper explores fifty things that Jesus accomplished through his death on the cross.

WHY? The most important questions anyone can ask are: Why was Jesus Christ crucified? Why did he suffer so much? What has this to do with me? Finally, who sent him to his sdeath? The answer to the last question is that God did. Jesus was God’s Son. The suffering was unsurpassed, but the whole message of the Bible leads to this answer.

The central issue of Jesus’ death is not the cause, but the meaning—God’s meaning. That is what this book is about. John Piper has gathered from the New Testament fifty reasons. Not fifty causes, but fifty purposes—in answer to the most important question that each of us must face: What did God achieve for sinners like us in sending his Son to die.

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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Christ, the Crucifixion, and the Concentration Camps 11
Fifty Reasons Why Christ Suffered and Died
1. To Absorb the Wrath of God 20
2. To Please His Heavenly Father 22
3. To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected 24
4. To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead 26
5. To Show the Wealth of God's Love and Grace for Sinners 28
6. To Show His Own Love for Us 30
7. To Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us 32
8. To Become a Ransom for Many 34
9. For the Forgiveness of Our Sins 36
10. To Provide the Basis for Our Justification 38
11. To Complete the Obedience That Becomes Our Righteousness 40
12. To Take Away Our Condemnation 42
13. To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation 44
14. To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful 46
15. To Make Us Holy, Blameless, and Perfect 48
16. To Give Us a Clear Conscience 50
17. To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us 52
18. To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness 54
19. To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him 56
20. To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age 58
21. To Reconcile Us to God 60
22. To Bring Us to God 62
23. So That We Might Belong to Him 64
24. To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place 66
25. To Become for Us the Place Where We Meet God 68
26. To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become the Eternal High Priest 70
27. To Become a Sympathetic and Helpful Priest 72
28. To Free Us from the Futility of Our Ancestry 74
29. To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin 76
30. That We Might Die to Sin and Live to Righteousness 78
31. So That We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for God 80
32. To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves 82
33. To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our Boasting 84
34. To Enable Us to Live by Faith in Him 86
35. To Give Marriage Its Deepest Meaning 88
36. To Create a People Passionate for Good Works 90
37. To Call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love 92
38. To Create a Band of Crucified Followers 94
39. To Free Us from Bondage to the Fear of Death 96
40. So That We Would Be with Him Immediately After Death 98
41. To Secure Our Resurrection from the Dead 100
42. To Disarm the Rulers and Authorities 102
43. To Unleash the Power of God in the Gospel 104
44. To Destroy the Hostility Between Races 106
45. To Ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation 108
46. To Gather All His Sheep from Around the World 110
47. To Rescue Us from Final Judgment 112
48. To Gain His Joy and Ours 114
49. So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor 116
50. To Show That the Worst Evil Is Meant by God for Good 118