Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die Devotional Study Guide



The Passion of Jesus Christ:Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to DieBy John Piper Devotional Study Guide INCLUDEPICTURE "" \* MERGEFORMATINET Join us in a 50-day devotional preparing for Easter!February 26, 2017 - April 16, 2017You can download the book as a PDF for free from Desiring God or pick up a free copy at NHCC! (Or you can purchase from Amazon on Kindle or paperback for $7 new or $4 used.) Sunday2/26/20171 To Absorb the Wrath of GodGalatians 3:10-14 Romans 3:21-26 What was God angry about? How did Christ’s death take care of God's wrath toward me?Monday2/27/20172 To Please His Heavenly Father Isaiah 53:1-12 Ephesians 5:1-10 What was it about Christ’s death that made it pleasing to God?Tuesday 2/28/20173 To Learn Obedience and Be PerfectedHebrews 2:10-18 Hebrews 5:7-10How did Christ’s death teach Him obedience and perfect/complete Him? What does Jesus' perfection do for me because of His death?Wednesday 3/1/20174 To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the DeadRomans 6:1-4 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Hebrews 13:20-21What does Jesus’ death have to do with Jesus’ resurrection? (Besides the fact that His death came before His resurrection.)Thursday 3/2/20175 To Show the Wealth of God’s Love and Grace for SinnersRomans 5:6-11 John 3:14-21 Ephesians 1:3-10How is Christ’s death evidence of God’s love and grace for me as a sinner?Friday 3/3/20176 To Show His Own Love for UsEphesians 5:25-33 Galatians 2:15-21How is Christ’s death evidence of Jesus’ own love and grace for me as a sinner?Saturday 3/4/20177 To Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against UsColossians 2:9-23 Romans 3:19-26How did Christ’s death deal with God's legal demands of us and free us from the law?Sunday 3/5/20178 To Become a Ransom for ManyMark 10:35-45 Romans 8:1-4 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Hebrews 2:14-18 In what sense was Christ’s death a ransom for me? What did Jesus’ death free and rescue me from?Monday 3/6/20179 For the Forgiveness of Our SinsIsaiah 43:22-28 Psalm 103:1-14 Matthew 26:26-29 Acts 10:39-43 How did Christ’s death forgive me of my sins?Tuesday 3/7/201710 To Provide the Basis for Our JustificationRomans 3:23-31 Romans 4:1-8 How did Christ’s death enable God to justify the wicked (treat and declare guilty people innocent)?Wednesday 3/8/201711 To Complete the Obedience That Becomes Our RighteousnessPhilippians 2:5-11 Romans 5:12-21 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Philippians 3:7-11How did Christ’s death complete His righteousness? How does Jesus' righteousness and become my righteousness in His death?Thursday 3/9/201712 To Take Away Our CondemnationRomans 8:28-39 Galatians 2:15-21How did Christ’s death take away my condemnation/curse?Friday 3/10/201713 To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of SalvationGalatians 5:1-15 Galatians 6:12-18 Acts 15:5-21How did Christ’s death get rid of circumcision and all rituals as the basis of salvation?Saturday 3/11/201714 To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us FaithfulMark 14:22-24 Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 9:11-15How does Christ’s death bring us to faith and keep us faithful? How is this different now than it was in the Old Testament? Sunday 3/12/201715 To Make Us Holy, Blameless, and PerfectHebrews 10:1-18 1 Corinthians 5:6-13How does Christ’s death make me holy, blameless, and perfect? How does Christ's death call me to be holy?Monday 3/13/201716 To Give Us a Clear ConscienceHebrews 9:6-28 Psalm 51:1-19How does Christ’s death clear my conscience of the guilt of sin?Tuesday 3/14/201717 To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for UsRomans 8:28-39 Philippians 4:10-20How does Christ’s death give me good things? How did God keep His promises in the midst of Jesus' suffering and ours?Wednesday 3/15/201718 To Heal Us from Moral and Physical SicknessIsaiah 53:1-12 Matthew 8:16-17 Revelation 21:1-8How/when does Christ’s death heal me morally and physically?Thursday 3/16/201719 To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on HimJohn 3:14-21 John 3:31-36 Mark 9:42-50How does Christ’s death give eternal life to all who believe in Jesus? What is the opposite of believing and having eternal life?Friday 3/17/201720 To Deliver Us from the Present Evil AgeJohn 17:6-19 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 2 Corinthians 4:1-6How does Christ’s death deliver me from this evil age? How do I still have to struggle against the world?Saturday 3/18/201721 To Reconcile Us to GodRomans 5:1-11 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 What allowed me to go from being God’s enemy to being reconciled to God?Sunday 3/19/201722 To Bring Us to God1 Peter 3:13-18 Ephesians 2:11-22What did Christ do to bring me near to God?Monday 3/20/201723 So That We Might Belong to HimRomans 7:1-6 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Acts 20:28 Revelation 5:9-10How/Why do I belong to Christ?Tuesday 3/21/201724 To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest PlaceHebrews 10:19-23 Hebrews 6:16-20What gives me access to the holiest place?Wednesday 3/22/201725 To Become for Us the Place Where We Meet GodJohn 2:18-22, 4:20-24, 14:1-14 Isaiah 7:14, 9:6What events made it possible for me to have a place to meet God?Thursday 3/23/201726 To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become the Eternal High PriestHebrews 7:23-28 Hebrews 9:23-28 Hebrews 10:11-14How has Christ perfected the office of the high priest?Friday 3/24/201727 To Become a Sympathetic and Helpful PriestHebrews 4:14-16 Hebrews 2:14-181 Peter 2:22-25How can a perfect God be sympathetic and helpful to sinful man?Saturday 3/25/201728 To Free Us from the Futility of Our AncestryNumbers 23:13-261 Peter 1:17-21 1 Corinthians 6:18-20Revelation 5:9-10What was required to set me free from my sin?Sunday 3/26/201729 To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin Revelation 1:5-6 Hebrews 13:11-14 John 8:33-36 Romans 6:6-7What freed me from my slavery to sin?Monday 3/27/201730 That We Might Die to Sin and Live to Righteousness1 Peter 2:23-15 Isaiah 53:5-6How did Christ make it possible for me to die to sin and live to righteousness?Tuesday 3/28/201731 So That We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for GodRomans 7:1-6Galatians 3:11-14Galatians 2:15-16How does Christ’s death make it possible for me to die with Him?Wednesday 3/29/201732 To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves2 Corinthians 5:11-21Philippians3:7-8How does Christ’s death make it possible for me to live for Him?Thursday 3/30/201733 To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our BoastingGalatians 6:11-15Romans 5:1-52 Corinthians 12:7-10How is my boasting (rejoicing) only in the cross, where both Christ and I died, the basis for all my other God-pleasing boasting?Friday 3/31/201734 To Enable Us to Live by Faith in HimGalatians 2:17-212 Corinthians 5:17Romans 6:5-14How does Christ’s death enable me to live a Christ-inhabited and Christ-sustained life?Saturday 4/1/201735 To Give Marriage Its Deepest MeaningEphesians 5:25-32How does the reason for Christ’s death give the deepest meaning to marriage between a man and a woman?Sunday 4/2/201736 To Create a People Passionate for Good WorksTitus 2:11-15Ephesians 2:4-10How does Christ’s death on the cross inspire within me joy and passion for the good and to do good?Monday 4/3/201737 To Call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love1 Peter 2:18-25 Hebrews 12:1-6 Philippians 2:5-8Philippians 3:7-11Why must I first share in Christ’s righteousness by faith before I can share in His sufferings in ministry?Tuesday 4/4/201738 To Create a Band of Crucified FollowersLuke 9:21-27 Matthew 10:37-39Why as a follower of Jesus Christ, why must I keep considering myself dead to sin and alive to God?Wednesday 4/5/201739 To Free Us from Bondage to the Fear of DeathHebrews 2:14-18Romans 8:10-17What is the one lethal weapon that Christ took from the devil when He died for my sins?Thursday 4/6/201740 So That We Would Be with Him Immediately After Death1 Thess. 5:4-11 Philippians 1:18b-26 2 Corinthians 5:1-10Though my physical death means leaving my body behind, what does God promise will happen to me upon my death?Friday 4/7/201741 To Secure Our Resurrection from the DeadRomans 6:1-14 Romans 8:11 2 Timothy 2:8-13What follows when I am united with Christ in His death?Saturday 4/8/201742 To Disarm the Rulers and AuthoritiesColossians 2:13-15 1 John 3:7-9Besides forgiving me all my sins on the cross, how did Christ disarm the evil powers and authorities who were against me?Palm Sunday 4/9/201743 To Unleash the Power of God in the Gospel1 Corinthians 1:20-25 Romans 1:14-17How does Christ’s death on the cross reveal the power and wisdom of God?Monday 4/10/201744 To Destroy the Hostility Between RacesEphesians 2:11-22How did Christ’s death destroy the dividing wall between Jews and Gentiles?Tuesday 4/11/201745 To Ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and NationRevelation 5:6-14What is the cost of bringing people from every tribe, language, people and nation into God’s kingdom?Wednesday 4/12/201746 To Gather All His Sheep from Around the WorldJohn 11:45-53 John 10:11-18 How does the Shepherd dying for His sheep lead to His gathering all His scattered sheep into His fold?Thursday 4/13/201747 To Rescue Us from Final JudgmentHebrews 9:16-28Why did Jesus have to die, but only once, if He were going to provide me with forgiveness and salvation?Good Friday 4/14/201748 To Gain His Joy and Ours Hebrews 12:1-12 Romans 8:18-39How is the path to real and lasting joy that Jesus followed similar to our journey with Christ as “sons of the Father”?Saturday 4/15/201749 So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and HonorHebrews 2:5-13 Philippians 2:5-11 Revelation 5:6-14How has Christ already demonstrated that the victory He won on the cross has been verified in heaven?Easter Sunday 4/16/201750 To Show That the Worst Evil Is Meant by God for GoodActs 4:23-31How did Christ’s victory over sin at the cross lead to a further demonstration of His power over all evil?Notes:Pastor Micah Adamsonmicahadamson@ ................
................

In order to avoid copyright disputes, this page is only a partial summary.

Google Online Preview   Download