David Asks Why? part 2 I Need Jesus

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 Jesus was kind and good and so is God, His Father. 

Jesus had a hard life and died a very sad death, but He did it all so we wouldn't have to die. 

He wants us to be happy with Him in heaven Forever. That is why Jesus came to this earth and became a human  being like us.

Jesus lived and suffered and died to save you and me from sin and death. He took away our sadness so we could be happy forever. 

God let His precious Son, Jesus, come from a wonderful, glorious home in heaven down to our sad, dark earth. There is no death in heaven, but Jesus came to earth where sin and death are all around. He was willing to be insulted and hated for our sake. 

Because He was punished for our sin and died, we can be free and holy 

lsaiah 53:5 But He was pierced through  for our transgressions

He was crushed for our iniquities

The chastening for our peace and well-being fell upon Him

And by His scourging we are healed

Think about the time when Jesus was alone in the desert. Think about Him praying tenderly for you in the Garden of Gethsemane. Think about Him dying on the cross! Jesus was perfect and He took our sins on Himself. Jesus and His Father had been one and when He died on the cross, Jesus felt very lonely. 

His heart hurt terribly and before He died, He cried out, "My God,

My God, why have You left Me all alone?" Matthew 27.46

Sin is such a bad thing - it hurts God very much. Because of sin, Jesus felt very far from God, His Father. The awfulness of sin and the loneliness for His Father killed Jesus, because it broke His heart.

Did Jesus die so that God would begin to love you? No, no! God has always loved you. He showed us how much He loved us by giving Jesus to die for us 

My edits in BLUE based on study & understanding of Why Jesus had to Die

John 3.16 Amplified

For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world  that He even gave up His only begotten - unique Son

So that whoever believes in - trusts in, clings to, relies on Him shall not perish - come to destruction, be lost but have eternal, everlasting life!

While Jesus was hurting so much on the cross, God the Father was hurting too. 

Original text "When someone sins there must be a punishment. So Jesus made things right and fair by letting himself be punished for our sins".

When someone sins, there is a side effect. This side effect is death. Jesus died to show us God didn't kill His son - but our sins did. 

And so Jesus made us friends with God when He takes away our fear. 

God loves you so much that His love for Jesus grew even greater when Jesus died to save you 

John 10.17 The reason my Father loves Me is that I lay down my life - but I take it up again

2 Corinthians 5.19  God was making all human beings His friends through Christ!

On the cross we see Jesus suffering even though He did nothing wrong. God suffered with His son. 

We begin to hate sin because it hurt God and everyone ever born so much. We realise the expensive price God paid to save us

Only Someone who knew God very well could save us from having to die for our own sins. Well, Jesus is God, so He could save us.

Jesus knows the Father so well that He was able to teach us just how great God's love is. Jesus gave everything He had, and He even died, so that people could go to heaven and be with Him.

God loved us so much that He gave Jesus to live on earth and then to die for us John 3:16.

People are naturally sinful and do bad things, but God sent Jesus to make us good and pure again.

Jesus became a man so that He could show us that He understands what we need. When Jesus became a human being, He became one forever - so we could always know that He is our Brother 

Hebrews 2.10, 11

Everything belongs to God, and all things were created by his power. So God did the right thing when he made Jesus perfect by suffering, as Jesus led many of God’s children to be saved and to share in his glory.

Jesus and the people He sanctifies -  makes holy all belong to the same family. That is why he isn’t ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters.

Jesus did all of this so that we would no longer have to be sinful and rebellious - so that we could become loving and holy like God.

ln the beginning, people were smart and happy. They were perfect and had pure, loving hearts - just like God's. But because of disobedience, things changed. The minds and hearts of people became wicked and selfish. 

People became so bad and weak that they didn't even know how to obey. Satan wanted to fill the world with sickness and hurting - and to blame it all on God. Satan trapped people and they would have been his slaves forever, except that God had a Plan.

Before Adam and Eve sinned, they talked face-to-face with God as His special friends. But after they srnned, they were afraid of God They had disobedient hearts and God was all good, so they hid from Him.

Even now, most people are afrald of God. They are afraid of His holiness and goodness. Many people think God is boring. sinners wouldn't be comfortable near God. They would be unhappy when God and His angels were there. 

Sinners wouldn't be happy in heaven, because people there are kind and caring. Selfish people just can't understand those things. It would be hard for sinners to feel at home in heaven because they don't like holy things. 

They would be like sour notes in a pretty song. Sinners would be very unhappy in heaven. They would be so used to doing bad things that they wouldn't have anything to do!

God didn't just make up a rule that wicked people wouldn't be allowed in heaven. They are not allowed there because they wouldn't be happy, and they would make others sad' God's lovely brightness and goodness would be so strange to them that they'd rather die than stay in heaven.

You are a sinner, and so am l. We cannot be freed from the deadly trap of sin by ourselves. We are naturally bad, and there's nothing we can do about it 

Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

 Romans 8:7 Our desires fight against God, because they do not and cannot obey God’s laws. 

We can learn about God. We can learn manners and self-control and these things are nice, but they can't change a bad heart. Those things can even make you seem like a nice person, but they will never give you a good heart.

There is Someone, though, who can change a person's heart. Jesus can! When Jesus comes into your heart, you can have a new, good heart. Jesus said that, just like a baby is born as a new life, so every person must let God give them a new heart. Only those with new hearts will ever go to heaven.

Many people think that if they act good, then they can go to heaven. That's not always true. No matter how many good things they do. every person's heart is still rotten and sinful until God changes it. 

The Bible says Jesus is life. When we let Him come into our hearts, He gives us new life. And we will be saved from death.

Do you see how loving and wonderful God is? He is like a kind and wonderful Dad. God is perfect and His law is fair 

Romans 11.16,12 If the root is holy, so are the branches

Romans 11:16

King James Version

For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

Contemporary English Version

If part of a batch of dough is made holy by being offered to God, then all of the dough is holy. If the roots of a tree are holy, the rest of the tree is holy too.

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

Now if the first handful of dough offered as the firstfruits [Abraham and the patriarchs] is consecrated (holy), so is the whole mass [the nation of Israel]; and if the root [Abraham] is consecrated (holy), so are the branches.

But just knowing about Him is not good enough' Even though your heart is naturally bad 

Romans 7:14 For we know God's commands in the Law is spiritiual, but I am selfish & sinful 

You can ask God to take away your sin and give you a good heart. Do you want to be good and pure and holy? lf you look to Jesus, He will take away your sin

 John 4.18 

The next day John saw Jesus coming

to him and said, Look! 

There is the Lamb of God,

Who takes away the sin of the world!

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