Christ Died for Our Sins
The phrase
‘Jesus died for my sins’ is a central Christian idea referring to our Lord
Jesus, who was sinless, dying on the cross as a substitute to pay the penalty
for our sins. This action satisfied God’s justice, resulting in the
forgiveness of our sins as repentant believers trusting in Christ. We are
thusly reconciled with God…we began a new relationship with Him as his
children. Essentially as our ‘Substitute,’ Jesus took the punishment that
we deserved because of our sins. Christ did not only die for you and me;
He died for our sin. Sin is that serious with our heavenly Father.
1
Corinthians 15:3-4, For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also
received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures:
2
Corinthians 5:21, For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no
sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
1 Peter 3:18, For Christ also
hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring
us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
1
Peter 2:24, Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes
ye were healed.
Isaiah 53:5, But he was wounded
for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement
of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
1 John 2:2, And he is the
propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of
the whole world.
Let us
avoid the modern trends that downplay sin or dismiss our sinfulness altogether.
No, we cannot view sin as a trivial or small matter when God makes such a big
deal of this. It is not only solid theology, but it is a principle of the
gospel. “Christ died for our sin,” yes, this
is correct, important to God for us to acknowledge, and the truth about our human
nature.
