Jesus Died For You!

If you have a drawer full of nice clean clothes, all folded up neatly and put away in your dresser, why would you need to take them all out and wash them again? They’re already clean and ready to wear. They clearly don’t need to be washed. It would be rather pointless, wouldn’t it? There’s no need. 

Let’s suppose that you woke up one morning and you looked out at your lawn through your window and saw that the ground was all wet from the rainstorm that had passed through overnight. Would you need to go and get out the garden hose and sprinklers and water your grass that day? Obviously not! It would be a complete pointless use of your time that morning. It just doesn’t need to be done. 

Now with this in your mind, I want you to read a passage of Scripture from Matthew chapter 9.

Matthew 9:10-13  And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

First of all we need to recognize why Jesus died. In the Old Testament, Judaic Law, when someone sinned it was commanded by God that an animal must be sacrificed as an offering to Him. But those offerings couldn’t take away the sins, only cover them, as it says in Hebrews 10.

Hebrews 10:1-4  For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year.

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.

Even though the animal sacrifice had been offered, it couldn’t take away the sins or conscience of the person, they would still remember it in their minds. We needed something more than the blood of bulls and goats to do this, and this is why Jesus died for our sins. He is the perfect sacrifice that we needed to take away our sins, offering Himself once for all, for the sins of the entire world.

Hebrews 10:8-12  Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 

And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

That is why Christ died. We couldn’t receive salvation through any other, than through Him. And this is what Jesus was explaining in the passage at the start today. Jesus had been eating with sinners, sitting among them, but the Pharisees when they saw this seemed to be shocked as to why the Lord was doing this. They seemed to think that they were above everyone the publicans and sinners around Jesus, failing to realize that they too were sinners. When they asked why He did this, He gave them an example by telling them that those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but the sick. Jesus didn’t come to the Earth to save the perfect. He came to save sinners! Those who think they are perfect and don’t need any saving from their sins don’t need Jesus (in their own eyes), because they have it all done on their own. 

But the truth is that we are all sinners, some just choose to not accept it. We are all sinners who need saving, and it is for us who Christ died. 

Can you admit that you are a sinner? Jesus died for you! 

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