Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die Devotional Study Guide

Pastor Micah Adamson [email protected] The Passion of Jesus Christ : Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die By John Piper Devotional Study Guide

Join us in a 50-day devotional preparing for Easter! February 26, 2017 - April 16, 2017

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Good 48 To Gain His Joy and Hebrews 12:1-12 Friday Ours Romans 8:18-39 4/14/2017 How is the path to real and lasting joy that Jesus followed similar to our journey with Christ as “sons of the Father”?

Saturday 49 So That He Would Be Hebrews 2:5-13 4/15/2017 Crowned with Glory and Philippians 2:5-11 Honor Revelation 5:6-14 How has Christ already demonstrated that the victory He won on the cross has been verified in heaven?

Easter 50 To Show That the Acts 4:23-31 Sunday Worst Evil Is Meant by 4/16/2017 God for Good How did Christ’s victory over sin at the cross lead to a further demonstration of His power over all evil? Jesus Came to Die … Jesus Came to Die … Monday 44 To Destroy the Ephesians 2:11-22 4/10/2017 Hostility Between Races Sunday 1 To Absorb the Wrath Galatians 3:10-14 How did Christ’s death destroy the dividing wall between Jews 2/26/2017 of God Romans 3:21-26 and Gentiles? What was God angry about? How did Christ’s death take care of God's wrath toward me?

Tuesday 45 To Ransom People from Revelation 5:6-14 4/11/2017 Every Tribe and Language Monday 2 To Please His Isaiah 53:1-12 and People and Nation 2/27/2017 Heavenly Father Ephesians 5:1-10 What is the cost of bringing people from every tribe, language, What was it about Christ’s death that made it pleasing to God? people and nation into God’s kingdom?

Wednesday 46 To Gather All His Sheep John 11:45-53 from Around the World John 10:11-18 Tuesday 3 To Learn Obedience Hebrews 2:10-18 4/12/2017 2/28/2017 and Be Perfected Hebrews 5:7-10 How does the Shepherd dying for His sheep lead to His How did Christ’s death teach Him obedience and gathering all His scattered sheep into His fold? perfect/complete Him? What does Jesus' perfection do for me because of His death?

Thursday 47 To Rescue Us from Hebrews 9:16-28 Wednesday 4 To Achieve His Own Romans 6:1-4 4/13/2017 Final Judgment Resurrection from the 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Why did Jesus have to die, but only once, if He were going to 3/1/2017 Dead Hebrews 13:20-21 provide me with forgiveness and salvation? What does Jesus’ death have to do with Jesus’ resurrection? (Besides the fact that His death came before His resurrection.) Jesus Came to Die … Jesus Came to Die …

Thursday 5 To Show the Wealth of Romans 5:6-11 3/2/2017 God’s Love and Grace John 3:14-21 for Sinners Ephesians 1:3-10 How is Christ’s death evidence of God’s love and grace for me as a sinner?

Friday 6 To Show His Own Ephesians 5:25-33 3/3/2017 Love for Us Galatians 2:15-21 How is Christ’s death evidence of Jesus’ own love and grace for me as a sinner?

Saturday 7 To Cancel the Legal Colossians 2:9-23 3/4/2017 Demands of the Law Romans 3:19-26 Against Us How did Christ’s death deal with God's legal demands of us and free us from the law?

Sunday 8 To Become a Ransom Mark 10:35-45 3/5/2017 for Many 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? Jesus Came to Die … Jesus Came to Die …

Thursday 40 So That We Would 1 Thess. 5:4-11 4/6/2017 Be with Him Philippians 1:18b-26 Immediately After Death 2 Corinthians 5:1-10 Though my physical death means leaving my body behind, what does God promise will happen to me upon my death?

Friday 41 To Secure Our Romans 6:1-14 4/7/2017 Resurrection from the Romans 8:11 Dead 2 Timothy 2:8-13 What follows when I am united with Christ in His death?

Saturday 42 To Disarm the Rulers Colossians 2:13-15 4/8/2017 and Authorities 1 John 3:7-9 Besides forgiving me all my sins on the cross, how did Christ disarm the evil powers and authorities who were against me?

Palm 43 To Unleash the Power 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 Sunday of God in the Gospel 4/9/2017 Romans 1:14-17 How does Christ’s death on the cross reveal the power and wisdom of God? Jesus Came to Die … Jesus Came to Die …

Monday 37 To Call Us to Follow 1 Peter 2:18-25 4/3/2017 His Example of Hebrews 12:1-6 Lowliness and Costly Philippians 2:5-8 Love Philippians 3:7-11 Why must I first share in Christ’s righteousness by faith before I can share in His sufferings in ministry?

Tuesday 38 To Create a Band of Luke 9:21-27 4/4/2017 Crucified Followers Matthew 10:37-39 Why as a follower of Jesus Christ, why must I keep considering myself dead to sin and alive to God?

Wednesday 39 To Free Us from Hebrews 2:14-18 Bondage to the Fear of Romans 8:10-17 4/5/2017 Death What is the one lethal weapon that Christ took from the devil when He died for my sins? Jesus Came to Die … Jesus Came to Die …

Monday 9 For the Forgiveness of Isaiah 43:22-28 Friday 13 To Abolish Galatians 5:1-15 3/6/2017 Our Sins Psalm 103:1-14 3/10/2017 Circumcision and All Galatians 6:12-18 Matthew 26:26-29 Rituals as the Basis of Acts 15:5-21 Acts 10:39-43 Salvation How did Christ’s death forgive me of my sins? How did Christ’s death get rid of circumcision and all rituals as the basis of salvation?

Tuesday 10 To Provide the Basis Romans 3:23-31 3/7/2017 for Our Justification Romans 4:1-8 Saturday 14 To Bring Us to Faith Mark 14:22-24 How did Christ’s death enable God to justify the wicked (treat 3/11/2017 and Keep Us Faithful Jeremiah 31:31-34 and declare guilty people innocent)? Hebrews 9:11-15 How does Christ’s death bring us to faith and keep us faithful? How is this different now than it was in the Old Testament?

Wednesday 11 To Complete the Philippians 2:5-11 Obedience That Romans 5:12-21 3/8/2017 Becomes Our 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Sunday 15 To Make Us Holy, Hebrews 10:1-18 Righteousness Philippians 3:7-11 3/12/2017 Blameless, and Perfect 1 Corinthians 5:6-13 How did Christ’s death complete His righteousness? How does How does Christ’s death make me holy, blameless, and perfect? Jesus' righteousness and become my righteousness in His death? How does Christ's death call me to be holy?

Thursday 12 To Take Away Our Romans 8:28-39 Monday 16 To Give Us a Clear Hebrews 9:6-28 3/9/2017 Condemnation Galatians 2:15-21 3/13/2017 Conscience Psalm 51:1-19 How did Christ’s death take away my condemnation/curse? How does Christ’s death clear my conscience of the guilt of sin? Jesus Came to Die … Jesus Came to Die …

Thursday 33 To Make His Cross Galatians 6:11-15 Sunday 29 To Free Us from the Revelation 1:5-6 3/30/2017 the Ground of All Our Romans 5:1-5 3/26/2017 Slavery of Sin Hebrews 13:11-14 Boasting 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 John 8:33-36 How is my boasting (rejoicing) only in the cross, where both Romans 6:6-7 Christ and I died, the basis for all my other God-pleasing What freed me from my slavery to sin? boasting?

Monday 30 That We Might Die to 1 Peter 2:23-15 Friday 34 To Enable Us to Live Galatians 2:17-21 3/27/2017 Sin and Live to Isaiah 53:5-6 3/31/2017 by Faith in Him 2 Corinthians 5:17 Righteousness Romans 6:5-14 How did Christ make it possible for me to die to sin and live to How does Christ’s death enable me to live a Christ-inhabited righteousness? and Christ-sustained life?

Tuesday 31 So That We Would Romans 7:1-6 3/28/2017 Die to the Law and Bear Galatians 3:11-14 Saturday 35 To Give Marriage Its Ephesians 5:25-32 Fruit for God Galatians 2:15-16 4/1/2017 Deepest Meaning How does Christ’s death make it possible for me to die with How does the reason for Christ’s death give the deepest Him? meaning to marriage between a man and a woman?

Wednesday 32 To Enable Us to Live 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 for Christ and Not Philippians3:7-8 Sunday 36 To Create a People Titus 2:11-15 3/29/2017 Ourselves 4/2/2017 Passionate for Good Works Ephesians 2:4-10 How does Christ’s death make it possible for me to live for How does Christ’s death on the cross inspire within me joy and Him? passion for the good and to do good? Jesus Came to Die … Jesus Came to Die …

Tuesday 17 To Obtain for Us All Romans 8:28-39 Saturday 21 To Reconcile Us to Romans 5:1-11 3/14/2017 Things That Are Good Philippians 4:10-20 3/18/2017 God 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 for Us What allowed me to go from being God’s enemy to being How does Christ’s death give me good things? How did God reconciled to God? keep His promises in the midst of Jesus' suffering and ours?

Wednesday 18 To Heal Us from Isaiah 53:1-12 Sunday 22 To Bring Us to God 1 Peter 3:13-18 Moral and Physical Matthew 8:16-17 3/19/2017 Ephesians 2:11-22 3/15/2017 Sickness Revelation 21:1-8 What did Christ do to bring me near to God? How/when does Christ’s death heal me morally and physically?

Thursday 19 To Give Eternal Life John 3:14-21 Monday 23 So That We Might Romans 7:1-6 3/16/2017 to All Who Believe on John 3:31-36 3/20/2017 Belong to Him 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Him Mark 9:42-50 Acts 20:28 How does Christ’s death give eternal life to all who believe in Revelation 5:9-10 Jesus? What is the opposite of believing and having eternal life? How/Why do I belong to Christ?

Friday 20 To Deliver Us from John 17:6-19 3/17/2017 the Present Evil Age 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 Tuesday 24 To Give Us Confident Hebrews 10:19-23 2 Corinthians 4:1-6 3/21/2017 Access to the Holiest Hebrews 6:16-20 How does Christ’s death deliver me from this evil age? How do Place I still have to struggle against the world? What gives me access to the holiest place? Jesus Came to Die … Jesus Came to Die …

Wednesday 25 To Become for Us the John 2:18-22, Place Where We Meet 4:20-24, 14:1-14 3/22/2017 God Isaiah 7:14, 9:6 What events made it possible for me to have a place to meet God?

Thursday 26 To Bring the Old Hebrews 7:23-28 3/23/2017 Testament Priesthood to Hebrews 9:23-28 an End and Become the Hebrews 10:11-14 Eternal High Priest How has Christ perfected the office of the high priest?

Friday 27 To Become a Hebrews 4:14-16 3/24/2017 Sympathetic and Helpful Hebrews 2:14-18 Priest 1 Peter 2:22-25 How can a perfect God be sympathetic and helpful to sinful man?

Saturday 28 To Free Us from the Numbers 23:13-26 3/25/2017 Futility of Our Ancestry 1 Peter 1:17-21 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 Revelation 5:9-10 What was required to set me free from my sin?