Why do we need Christ?

All of us have a conscience which shows us the right path of life that is pleasing to God (Rom 2:15). But yet we tend to choose the things which are contrary to our consciousness. We also realize that we are sinning against God. In order to please God, we try to do the things which we think it would please Him. Some say by doing good work, we can compensate for the bad things which we have done against God. But Bible says, ‘We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.(Isa64:6)’ . God has created us to glorify Him. To glorify Him, we need to love Him. In order to love Him, we have to obey all the commandments of God (1John 5:2). So our good deeds for God are not considered a favour, but as a duty which we are obliged to do.

Would a judge of this world leave a serial killer free just because he has helped a blind man crossing a road? He won’t because justice has to be served. Likewise, since God is infinitely just, He won’t consider our good deeds and forgive our sins, because He is good and righteous and He will punish the evil doers for their sins. And Bible says, ‘The wages of sin is death (Rom 6:23)’. In order to be righteous, the judge has to give capital punishment for the serial killer or give that punishment to another righteous man so that the killer can be released in bail. Likewise God can also release us from the punishment through bail if a righteous person is willing to take the punishment.

Bible says, ‘None is righteous, no, not one (Rom 3:10)’. That is why God has to become a human being to take the punishment for our sins, since God is good. God is infinite so the wrath of God is also infinite for our sins. Only an infinitely holy person can take the punishment for our sins from God. That is why, Jesus, who is God himself, pure and Holy, came to this earth by becoming a human (John 1:14) born supernaturally from a virgin’s womb (Luk 1:35), by the power of Holy Spirit to take the wrath of God for our sins. Jesus died on the cross without any blemish as a substitute for the sake of those who believe in Him alone for being saved from God’s wrath.  God ‘made him (Jesus) to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God (2Cor 5:21)’.  God as a sign of approval of Jesus’ sacrifice, raised Him from the dead on the third day (1Cor 15:1-4) and now Jesus is seated in the right hand of God with all power and authority under Him (Mat 28:18). If you repent of your sins, and have faith only in Jesus, that means you are also part of those for whom Christ has died, since without the power of God, no one can believe Christ and faith is a free gift from God (Eph 2:8).

For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. (Heb 10:4).  So it is not by sacrificing animals or by our good deeds we would be declared righteous in front of God but only by faith alone in Christ. Therefore repent of your sins and believe in Christ for the remission of your sins and you would be truly free.

Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (Joh 14:6)

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