Why Did Jesus Have To Die? (Philippians 3:5-14 )
Let us turn to Philippians 3:5-14.
This is Paul’s confession, who was in the Jewish church, and met Jesus Christ. This is not a confession that comes because he was well educated, and it’s not a confession that is impossible to make if you’re not educated. It is a confession of value that anyone can make if they meet I Jesus Christ.
Everyone lives their lives with a set of values, and when they meet Jesus Christ, it’s bound to change. If your life values don’t change, it is either that you have not received salvation or you have not discovered Jesus Christ, and it is a person that has not yet understood what the old person you used to live as, was. It means you don’t know how you lived before and how you will live from now on. It means they haven’t been struck to the heart about why they need Jesus Christ.
The title of today’s message is, “Why did Jesus Have to Die?” We know about death, everyone knows that Jesus died, but why did Jesus have to die? It’s a little different. Everybody who goes to church knows Jesus Christ died on the cross and resurrected. Everybody, even in the world, unbelievers talk about how Jesus CHrist died on the cross, but why did Jesus have to die? If you know the certain answer, the reason why Jesus Christ had to die, then Paul’s confession becomes your confession.
Jesus CHrist is the Son of God, Whom God sent. Why did Jesus Christ have to come to this earth and die on the cross? Even though He is God, without sin, He is the One Who had a physical, human body but never sinned. The death of Jesus Christ was prophesied in the Old testament, and a lot of people ask, “how can we believe the words of the Bible when it was written by humans?” It says in the Bible that it was written by human hands through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
The 39 books of the Old testament weren’t tied together when they were published; the Penteteuch was written by Moses, and everything written after that wasn’t written on one scroll, but they were written over thousands of years as the incidences arose. Many generations later, they were all compiled, and even though it transcends so many ages, the content is the same. It means that the prophecies of Isaiah were discovered in the past. Even though the times in which they were written were so different, the content was the same, and mainly talking about the prophesied of Jesus Christ.
That means that God has left behind these many words through many ages through the prophets about Jesus Christ who is too bound to come.
God continued to relay the message of the Passover that brought the Israelites out of Egypt. Even before the Exodus, when God called Abraham to sacrifice His son, Isaac, God prepared the ram as a sacrifice and that was the prophecy of Jesus Christ. God also gave us the message regarding Jesus Christ who the prophet Jonah who went into the belly of a fish for three days, representing Jesus Christ who had died and 3 days after his death he has resurrected. In the Old testament, the sacrifice that was given at the Tabernacle, but it was the message about Jesus Christ. Then, 2000 years ago, Jesus Christ came to this earth, and the incidence of the cross, where He died on the cross for the sins of mankind.
Introduction – Jesus Christ All Problems
The INcident of the cross was the incident that solved all of mankind’s problems. The power went out in my neighborhood today, so all the restaurants and families’ homes are all dark. Because the power grid was out, even the traffic signals were down. I didn’t notice when there was light, but when it becomes dark, it’s very dark. You can’t even make food because everything is done by electricity, and even when you go to a restaurant, they don’t have power either, so they can’t give you food, and we didn’t know this while we had the light, but now that we are missing electricity, we know its importance. Even when you’re taking a shower, you can’t see anything because it’s so dark, but if you open the door a little bit, a little light comes in, and even that I’m so thankful for.
What is the problem of mankind? It is a problem where there is no light, in other words, it’s a problem of darkness. What does darkness mean? It means nobody can find their way. It means we are lost in deception, going down the incorrect path, and as a result, we face constant suffering. Even in this life, we must live diligently, but if we live in darkness, the more diligently we work the more things we run into. Mankind needs the true light, and we are covered in spiritual darkness without even knowing it. People who know Jesus Christ have the light come upon them, but they don’t even know the value of that.
THen, one day, when they face a real spiritual illness, they recognize why JEsus Christ is important. Only when it looks liek your life will end the next day will you hold to Jesus christ. God makes it so that you discover the importance of Jesus Christ through physical things, however, it is God’s grace if you can discover the value of Jesus Christ when you don’t have physical problems.
The problem of all mankind is a problem of darkness where they are missing the light. We must study and work within the midst of that light. What happens if you don’t have light and you need to work and study without light? You can’t see anything; when you see a problem, you don’t know the answer, and you live a life that continually falls into problems. You can only walk the correct path when Jesus Christ who is the true light comes upon you through the Word of God.
1.Death
There was one reason why Jesus Christ had to die, and that’s the first point. Why did Jesus Christ have to die?
1)Genesis 2:17
God promised that if you eat fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you will surely die. He’s talking about the death of our spirit and our body.
2)Romans 3:10, 23
Because of the original sin of Adam and Eve, Romans 3:10, 23 there is not a single person who is righteous; every human being has sinned. What is a sinner? Being a sinner is the state where you live separated from God. As a result of not believing in God, we are taken captive by Satan and believe in something else instead.
3)John 8:44
We completely belong to Satan now, so it’s important to know where you are, spiritually. The fact that this is a battle between the Light and the Darkness means, are you with God or are you with Satan? Because people are completely captured by Satan, it doesn’t matter if they live diligently or not, people are saying, “This is a problem, that’s a problem,” but that’s not the real problem, there is a real problem. Until we’re liberated from Satan’s grasp, every problem is a problem; we live a life of lies. We think that’s an answer, but that’s not the answer, because you’re being seized by your father, the devil, who is a liar and a murderer.
4)Romans 8:2
THis is the reason why Jesus Christ had to die to set people free from the law of sin and death by the law of the spirit that gives life. Within Jesus Christ. We can never be liberated from the law of sin and death otherwise. The law means you cannot escape from this, even from birth. No matter how great of a college you graduate from, you cannot escape. Because you’re living your life so diligently, you study and work so diligently to be successful diligently, under the law of sin and death, that’s why curses, disasters, and spiritual problems pour into people’s lives, but they don’t understand it.
Even if they try singing, it doesn’t work, and it doesn’t matter what kind of Christ-like activities they do. They just cover up their original state with the name of Jesus Christ. For people whose lives are very sad, they resonate with sad songs; people who are so afflicted, they look at falling leaves, and it matches with them. Foliage is just foliage, but looking at falling leaves and pondering about that, that’s a mental problem, but we buy poems written by people who are afflicted.
We must escape from that, how? First, we have to be alive in the spirit of life. You have to come to life, then you can look at the falling foliage for it to have meaning. If you’re in the state of death, it doesn’t matter how beautiful the leaves are, you’re only going to talk about death. Even if you read a book, you might feel alive because it resonates with you, but it’s not even a story of your own life’s victories.
5)Romans 5:8 Sin
Death can only be resolved by the sinless One who died in place for all of mankind. They say there is no God from the moment they’re in the womb. What kind of sin has a baby committed? The baby doesn’t speak, and the baby doesn’t even think deeply, but from the moment they are born, they don’t have God, we call this original sin. It’s not because of what they’ve learned. If a person becomes mature and they’re very strange, that was actually the case ever since they were young. “My kid went to church for a long time but they’re so weird.” They may have gone to church for a long time, but their imprint, root, nature is in things that do not have God. “I’ve gone to church for so long,” Look at the Buddhist people, if you go to a temple you listen to the Buddhist word. And if you go to school, you’re going to listen to the teachers teaching for a long time, it doesn’t mean, things work out according to your thoughts. God’s Word must be planted and bear fruit within our thoughts and heart.
2. Result
What is the result of the death of Jesus Christ?
1) 2 Corinthians 5:21
In 2 Corinthians 5:21 it says Jesus died in the place for out sin. So why did Jesus Christ have to die for us? He had to die on the cross in my place, for my sins and for our sins. Then, what was the “me” before this point? It was the “me” that didn’t believe in God. It was the “me” that was dragged around by Satan. It was a “me” that lived under the hellish suffering before I went to eternal hell. You were living in that kind of spiritual state, studying, getting a job, getting married, and having kids in that state, but now you’ve been liberated into a new “you.” Jesus has saved that “you,” solved that problem of sin, and changed you into a new “you.” If He has changed you into a new “you,” you must have the thoughts of a new “you.” That’s what it means for God’s Word to become your thoughts. You are a new “you,” but you live with your old thoughts, so you live your life, losing hold of the many blessings reserved for you.
2) Hebrews 9:28
It says that Jesus Christ took the sins of all mankind. The sin, the state of the old “me” that didn’t believe in God, has been crucified on the cross, and now you’ve been changed to a new “you” where you are with God. THen if you face a problem or circumstance, God must be with you in that situation; however, you keep living your life in the way you did before you met God, so you have no idea how many blessings you’re losing hold of as you live. Now that you’re the new “you” you have to find what God is doing in the midst of your problems, and that’s how God works through the Word. But because this is not taking place, the walk of faith becomes so difficult. You don’t have a very big sense of worship, just because I wish a worship or two doesn’t mean my salary will go down or it doesn’t mean I’m going to get sick all of a sudden, it doesn’t mean my inheritance will go away. It means you continuously live in the old “you” that is cursed, the “you” that has spiritual problems.
3) Hebrews 10:10
We have been made holy by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ once and for all. What does “once and for all” mean? Normal Gentiles don’t know what this means, and we are gentiles, but the Jewish people gave sacrifices every single day. The content of Leviticus in the Old testament is described in Hebrews in the New testament, and in the past, you’d have to continuously give the sacrifice, and the priest had to sacrifice an animal offering every day, in the morning and at night. If someone commits a sin, you have to sacrifice an animal from your home, and every single year, there was a day of atonement to offerings sacrifices to forgive all of the sins of the Israelites then we have to keep the feasts, but we’ve been regarded as “holy” through the blood of Jesus Christ once and for all.
We don’t have the ability to be holy, but God sees us as righteous because of Jesus Christ. If we cannot receive the grace of Jesus Christ, we live a life as a sinner, a life without God, a life that chases after Satan, and we put ourselves in this hellish suffering. But because of Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ is now my master and owner, and because of that, I’m living a righteous and holy life.
1 Peter 3:18 says, “For Christ died for sins once and for all, the righteous for the unrightoeus, to bring us to God.” We cannot go to God; it might be possible for us to think of worship superficially, because we give worship, but now that we are going online people are not giving worship even online, they’re not giving worship. Then what happens if you’re not able to receive the spiritual grace and strength through worship? Then the spiritual problem will continue to increase in your family. Then it doesn’t matter how much money you have, and the doctors in the hospital cannot solve it. The spiritual problems are bound to increase, even among people who go to church. We were created to receive the grace and spiritual blessings from God, but when we go to an online age, we aren’t receiving the word, and as time passes, it will reveal itself.
3. Mystery
What is the mystery of the death of jesus christ?
1) 1 John 3:8
The reason the son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. The devil controls and seizes everyone with lies that aren’t the Word of God, and we call something “sin” if we are leaving the word of God, and following after lies, and that’s why the one who is sinful is the devil. Sin and the devil are the same because sin is the act of leaving the Word of God; in other words, it is disobedience to God’s Word. Then what are you going to listen to instead? The devil’s lies. Therefore if you don’t have the Word of God, you don’t have a choice but to be dragged back into your old state. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work.
2) JOhn 14:6
Jesus says, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the LIfe, no one comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ.” It doesn’t matter how much you elevate your spirituality, even though you listen to music and empty yourself through transcendental meditation, I’m sorry to say it, but you’re not meeting with God. You may feel very peaceful and quiet because the music gives you peace, but it is not God. I see on the internet, how there are audio files of whales crying over thousands of meters underwater, and it’s soundtrack because people have insomnia. I also listen to music while exercising in the park, and I tested different types. Even today, I listened to a youtube video of Deep Prayer on piano, but it didn’t fit with me very well. I got the sense of a lot of sad emotions being relayed. However, on YouTube, there’s a soundtrack that matches with me, and the difference is the tempo.
There’s a tempo that comes very slowly and it’s very easy to pray along to and it fits well with me. There was another soundtrack, the Deep Prayer soundtrack, where some pond playing it in a fast tempo and it’s very strong and I was listening to it a few times but I couldn’t pray even though I was listening to it so there are some times when they have you meditate and they listen to this very slow music and you have no idea how good it is to be by yourself, all still, but that is not meeting with God; it’s simply emptying yourself and filling yourself with something else. For example, you imagine a universal qi entering into you, and that’s you making your own God.
You need to meet GOd and be satisfied with only God, every day. There’s a difference between meeting God and being filled with God. SOmeone who is filled with God must run their business; someone who is filled with God must do their studies, and that’s how you will be able to see very quickly when you face a problem or incident. However, people who don’t do this, they just try to work and study with their own mental grit, they may have great skill, but if they see a problem or incident, they don’t see God. Even though they may be good at studying, what happens if they live the rest of their lives like this? It means they live the rest of their lives without answers. Imagine how full of anguish they are because they have skills and mental abilities, imagine how manys spiritual problems they have. That’s why.
So the real issue isn’t if you’re good at something or not, of course it is good to be good at something but there is something we must have even before being good at something. God must be completely and fully established in us until God takes complete control over me. The reason you’re worried is because you’re controlling yourself. If God is controlling you, you wouldn’t be worried but you would see the answer, and that’s why we don’t need transcendental meditation, but we need holy meditation.
3) Romans 6:6
He allowed the body of sin to be done away with so we would no longer be slaves to sin. We no longer have to be slaves to sin, or slaves to Satan because you don’t have God. Because you don’t have GOd, you are listening and following and enslaved deceived by the lies of Satan, but now you have to listen and follow God’s gospel and if you are doing a work, begin when you see God’s certain answers through the Word. But being a slave to sin means you can’t do whatever you wan;t you can’t control it, you make mistakes, and you don’t know why. What kind of failure is this? Those mistakes are because you were living in a state of your old self, before you knew God when you were a slave to sin, and even if you succeed,there’s too much. Do not be a slave to sin; we’ve already been finished. What does it mean to be finished? It means we’re a new creation, now following the Words of God’s gospel. Slaves to sin means we follow after our own thoughts and the thoughts of people; in other words, we follow the lies of SAtan.
Nobody tells us that it’s the lies of Satan; you follow it because you think it’s correct, but it’s aligned with you instead of God’s Word. If God is alive, God will give you the Word about whether it’s required or not. No matter what you’re doing, God’s Word will appear there. What does it mean to pray? It isn’t about praying to get something, but you need to be able to see God’s sure plan and will through everything. If you pray, then God will come upon you with His Word, whether it’s through the Bible or the pulpit message.
God works through the Word, therefore, we do not have to follow the word of people or our own thoughts, we follow God’s word, and that’s why when Joseph was taken as a slave, because God’s Word came upon him, he simply went. If God’s Word doesn’t come upon you, you have to think your own thoughts, and this is very important. There are people who are blind within their fields and the world, and you have to discover God’s Word there. That’s the reason we set up time and pray, but if your mind is divided, can you even receive God’s word? If you’re worried, listen to God’s Word, but that’s the reason why you seek a quiet time at your job or wherever you are, you have to seek God’s word regarding this problem.
4. Meaning of Prophesies
Jesus Christ coming to earth was testified in the Old testament.
1) Genesis 3:15, it says Jessu would come to earth as the offspring of the woman. The one who is born of the virgin women is the one who will crush the head of Satan, don’t you think that’s so? Why do you think he said crush the head of Satan? It’s all contained within the gospel, it means that sin and the devil are all contained within that. You must be liberated from the devil, from the authority of sin, and the authority of sin comes from the devil. We fight against that with our faith, and if we’re caught up by it, we lose in our disbelief. If you don’t understand the authority of Satan, you will be crushed in your own guilt. Your head is going to be filled with terrible thoughts, but because you don’t understand that they are yours, you don’t understand they come from the civil you’re going to be oppressed by your own guilt trip because you think that these thoughts are yours instead of realizing that the devil is putting these thoughts into your head. And if that becomes severe it turns into depression. You become completely crazy because you’ve got this legalism for the church, and it doesn’t matter how much you hit the ground you need to understand the gospel that the offspring of the woman would crush the head of the serpent.
What does “offspring of the woman” mean, and what does it mean to crush Satan’s head/ It means I’m seized by Satan, so the only way is if Jesus Christ crushes the head of Satan in order for me to escape. It’s not that Genesis 3:15 is one of many words in the bible; mental problems and the problems of disbelief, you cannot escape unless it is by only Christ. That’s what it means to deeply meditate upon the Word of God. Sure, it’s important for you to memorize the Word of God,but that’s just the beginning, because memorization must put this in your head, but you have to meditate on the word, but if I know the Word, why do I have to relay it? It means that the Word of God must be contained within all the circumstances and environment you encounter in your life, but if you just know with your brain, because you memorized it, you can’t apply it, why? Because you can’t interpret everything with your brain. “I have depression,” but it doesn’t mean It’ll go away as I memorize these with my brain. I’m continuously being dragged around by the devil, and just by putting it in my brain it doesn’t do anything it means that in the state where I’m being dragged around by the Bible, the Word of God must go deeply into that situation in order to escape. But because you only know this as knowledge, it is completely irrelevant to your life all problem are from sin and Satan, but this is the answer to all problems, and if you face a day, then imagine how many circumstances overlap over one another, but all these problem are the same situation, and the only answer is Jesus Christ. And if it doesn’t get to that point, then you just say, “I know,” and you pass by it, and you know it so you teach it to others but you yourselves are not able to escape. That’s why we have to meditate deeply on the words of Genesis 3:15, not because we are studying philosophy, but because we have the situations in life.
What is the problem I’m facing? What’s the answer? You need to receive the Word and meditate on it deeply and meditate on your ife. If you guys don’t do holy meditation, your walk of faith is very light if you’ve received the word of GOd, then your situation is different from another person or family, so you must think about the Word deeply in your life.
2) Genesis 4:1-9
This is the story of Cain. You can’t go to God however you want, with the produce you farm. There are some pastors who say the grain offering is an offering of grain, so it should be okay, but the grain offering is given in thanksgiving. You’re not killing anything, but you have a lot of hardship and so you’re thankful so you give a part to God. but it’s not that you’re killing anything. They lost hold of the sacrifice of the blood, there’s no other way to get to God than this.
3) Passover
The sacrifice for thankfulness is in addition to the sacrifice of blood, but it cannot be the main. They say this without explaining but this year, there’s the passover lamb. The passover lamb represents Jesus christ; you have to apply the blood of the lamb, and when Jesus Christ came, they said, “Look at the Lamb of God,” the young lamb of the passover.
4) John 8:58
In John 8:58 even Abraham was saved because of his faith and the coming messiah and he was glad to see it. Therefore, it doesn’t matter in the Old testament or New testament, there is no way we can go before Christ unless we believe in jesus christ. Why did Abraham rejoice at the thought of seeing Jesus Christ and was laughing inside? Because God promised Abraham that Jesus Christ would come through his line of descendants, and when he saw his son Isaac was born, He thought about the covenant to come. If you have a son when you’re 100 years old you’re able to confirm that the word of God is true, ultimately through this family line, the messiah will be born. The sixth piece for us today is to participate in the death of Jesus Christ and the power of His resurrection. We must participate in the death of Jesus Christ of Jesus Chirst, and the power of His resurrection. but you must participate for the effect of the cross to be upon you.
5. Partake
1) Galatians 2:20
The “me” of the past is crucified and dead. My outer appearance may be the same, but the outer, old me that used to follow after Satan and falling into sin that “me” is dead on the cross. If you are before death, how will you live? But because Christ lives within me, I live, following HIs Word, Because God appears to us through His word and He guides us through His word, that’s why we follow Him through our prayer. If we’re just sitting alone, then we don’t know God’s Word, so we pray. We live our lives to give glory to God alone. What is God’s glory? It’s not about getting first place so everyone knows and sees you and you give glory to God; that’s not it. Christians might like that you’re a Christian, but non-believers donut care if you’re a Christian or not when a muslim person does a hand-gesure to Allah, non-believers don’t care about that.
A singer received an award, and his award speech was just the Lord’s prayer. Then the unbelievers will think, “okay, that’s a believer, that’s fine, but how can I get the trophy but let’s say their hearts might open and they say, “ok, this is a Christian person ” but there are actually more unbelievers who win rewards than Chrisitans do. God’s glory is actually when the invisible God’s Will comes upon earth.
God is invisible and sent Jesus Christ to this earth to bear the cross; therefore, Jesus Christ bearing the cross ultimately bore God’s glory and giving God glory. And if God made everybody only able to give glory to God by winning a first place medal, then that’s a headache. I’m just saying that you can’t make God’s glory to be narrowly defined by a first place medal gold Olympian. That might be one aspect of life, but there’s an aspect of your life you live even before becoming a gold medalist.
3) Philippians 3:7-8
In this passage, Paul compared everything to rubbish. It’s not that he didn’t need it; he knows the knowledge of the world to live in the world. however, he has something of greater value so that he considers everything else rubbish. Otherwise you become gnostic, as one who believes that the spiritual world is important and the physical things are not. You do need physical things but it’s rubbish; you need the knowledge of the world, but it’s unnecessary. Not knowing this, you are centered on the wrong things: gnosticism. This is the important content. Gnosticism.
Especially, remnants must have this. “I don’t need to study,” that’s an incorrect faith, a person who has scars because of their studies. Of course you need studies, but you don’t need that, you don’t need studies to save people. But you do need studies to live in the world. So you need it, but you don’t. That’s what it means.
Then everyone says “I don’t need business; I’m going to become a pastor.” Do you think just anyone can become a pastor if they go to seminary? Many people of faith have this kind of faith, “I just want to go to heaven quickly,” Then go quickly. You act as if you have so much faith. You have to fulfill the work God planned for you on this earth, but instead of knowing what that is, you say you want to go to heaven quickly. That’s not the correct faith. Paul said, “I want to go to heaven quickly,” but he said, “The reason why I remain on this earth is because there is remaining work I need to do for the believers who believe in me and the church. You need to have this great sense of this. If you want to believe in Jesus Christ, you have to have assurance. Assurance regarding salvation. John 1:12, even after receiving salvation, you’re shaken whether you are a child of God or not. If you believe in Jesus Christ, you are a child of God and the Holy Spirit dwells within you. When you pray in the name of Jesus Christ, then God answers you. That’s John 14:26-27.
3) Victory
You have assurance of victory, that no matter what kind of temptation you fall into, God gives you a way around into it, and God gives you a way out. But because you don’t know about this salvation, you’re always shaking before a problem comes. And when a problem comes, you’re already shaking. Christ is already victorious, so we go forth with that assurance.
4. Forgiveness of Sin
We also have the assurance of the forgiveness of our sins in Mark. Otherwise, you’ll be oppressed by your own guilt. You think you’ll get rid of the guilt of your sin by abusing your body, like crawling up the temple stairs until your knees bleed, but even after receiving salvation, there are sins that you commit. You just quickly repent, and then you go to God. It doesn’t mean that you can’t receive salvation.
5. Guidance
The fifth is the assurance is of Guidance. Matthew 28:20, Jesus Christ promised to be with you until the end of the age. No matter where you are, He will be with you. It is the assurance of guidance. Because you believe in Jesus Christ, you need to have these kinds of assurances, because these are the five places and aspects through which Satan will attack.
Is it true that I have salvation? If I pray, will I receive answers? “if I face this kind of problem, then my life will be ruined, it’s over!” You need to have the assurance of victory, and when you live your life, it’s possible you may sin. Quickly cast that down and go to God. You’re so oppressed by your guilt trip because you’ve committed a sin, and Satan oppresses you, but no matter what circumstance you’re in, God is with you and guiding you. What happens if you don’t have these assurances? Even after receiving salvation, you go back to the old life you lived before receiving salvation. You must always have this assurance.
If you go out into the world without these five assurances, then what are you going to be certain of? Are you going to be sure of your own ability? Because you don’t have these five assurances, you keep trying to rely on something else so that you may be assured. “I know some great people,” you try to receive assurance through your network. You live with this assurance that, “Hey, if I make a phone call, I’ll have thousands of people who will support me,” but you cannot win in the field like that. No matter what circumstance I face, I am victorious, and no matter where I go, God is with me, guiding me, and no matter what it is, if I pray in the name of Jesus Christ, God will answer me. You need to have these assurances before you go out into the field so that you won’t shake. May this blessing be upon you.
Prayer
God we thank You. We have shared the Word about why Jesus Christ had to die. Please bless us so we may know the reason and answer and be able to realistically apply this in our lives. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.