TY - BOOK AU - Piper,John TI - The Passion of Jesus Christ: fifty reasons why He came to die SN - 9781581346084 AV - BT431.P665.P377 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - Wheaton, Illinois PB - Crossway Books KW - Jesus Christ N1 - 1 (pages 123); The Passion of Jesus Christ, Personal, Political, Unparalleled --; A Word About the Title and the Book --; The Great Offense: Was Jesus Christ Really Crucified? --; Jesus' Finest Hour-His Last --; The Unparalleled Passion of Jesus Christ --; The Passion of Christ and the Passion of Auschwitz --; The Passion of Jesus Christ, Its Aims and Achievements --; Christ Suffered and Died To Absorb the Wrath of God --; To Please His Heavenly Father --; To Learn Obedience and Be Perfected --; To Achieve His Own Resurrection from the Dead --; To Show the Wealth of God's Love and Grace for Sinners --; To Show His Own Love for Us --; In Order to Cancel the Legal Demands of the Law Against Us --; To Become a Ransom for Many --; For the Forgiveness of Our Sins --; To Provide the Basis for Our Justification --; To Complete the Obedience Which Becomes Our Righteousness --; To Take Away Our Condemnation --; To Abolish Circumcision and All Rituals as the Basis of Salvation --; To Bring Us to Faith and Keep Us Faithful --; To Make Us Holy, Blameless, and Perfect --; To Give Us a Clear Conscience --; To Obtain for Us All Things That Are Good for Us --; To Heal Us from Moral and Physical Sickness --; To Give Eternal Life to All Who Believe on Him --; To Deliver Us from the Present Evil Age --; To Reconcile Us to God --; To Bring Us to God --; So That We Might Belong to Him --; To Give Us Confident Access to the Holiest Place --; To Become for Us the Place Where We Meet God --; To Bring the Old Testament Priesthood to an End and Become the Eternal High Priest --; To Become a Sympathetic and Helpful Priest --; To Free Us from the Futility of Our Ancestry --; To Free Us from the Slavery of Sin --; That We Might Die to Sin and Live to Righteousness --; So That We Would Die to the Law and Bear Fruit for God --; To Enable Us to Live for Christ and Not Ourselves --; Died To Make His Cross the Ground of All Our Boasting --; To Enable Us to Live by Faith in Him --; To Give Marriage Its Deepest Meaning --; To Create a People Passionate for Good Works --; To Call Us to Follow His Example of Lowliness and Costly Love --; To Create a Band of Crucified Followers --; To Free Us from Bondage to the Fear of Death --; So That We Would Be with Him Immediately after Death --; To Secure Our Resurrection from the Dead --; To Disarm the Rulers and Authorities --; To Unleash the Power of God in the Gospel --; To Destroy the Hostility Between Races --; To Ransom People from Every Tribe and Language and People and Nation --; To Gather All His Sheep from Around the World --; To Rescue Us from Final Judgment --; To Gain His Joy and Ours --; So That He Would Be Crowned with Glory and Honor --; To Prove that the Worst Evil Is Meant by God for Good --; A Prayer --; Books on the Historical Reliability of the Bible's Record of the Life of Jesus --; Resources from Desiring God Ministries; 2 N2 - Fifty reasons why Jesus came to die UR - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0412/2003026596.html ER -