1. What did Jesus Accomplish for Us? Part I
What is the Gospel? Three Questions - Focus on Jesus
1. Why do we need Jesus?
2. What did Jesus do for us?
3. How do we receive salvation through Jesus?
Why We Need Jesus
1. Sin
2. Spiritual death
3. Physical death
4. Judgment
5. Hell
6. Wrath of God
7. Eternal death
What is Sin?
1. Unbelief
2. Idolatry
3. Rebellion
4. Breaking God’s law
5. Denying God His glory
What Did Jesus Do For Us? (to deal with our sin and its consequences)
1. Born of a virgin and became a man
2. Sinless life
3. Sacrifice on the cross
4. Resurrection
Today - What did Jesus Accomplish for Us through His Life and Death?
Soteriology - The branch of theology that studies salvation.
1. Propitiation
2. Redemption
3. Justification
Romans 3:23-25 (all three aspects are mentioned in these three verses)
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through
the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood,
through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed
over the sins that were previously committed,
Propitiation
That God’s justice has been satisfied and His righteous angry wrath appeased for our sin against
Him through Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross making it possible for Him to pass over our sin so that
we can be reconciled to Him.
Hebrews 2:17
Therefore, in all things He had to be made like His brethren, that He might be a merciful and
faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

2. 1 John 2:2
And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the whole world.
1 John 4:10
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation
for our sins.
Redemption
To be freed from sin by the payment of the price required which was Jesus’ life through the
pouring out of His blood.
Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom
for many.”
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Galatians 4:4-5
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to
redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
1 Peter 1:18-19
For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were
redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, 19 but with the
precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
Justification
For those who put their faith in Jesus to be declared legally righteous by God based on having
their sins imputed to Christ and having His righteousness imputed to them. Imputed –
transferred.
Romans 5:1
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus Christ,
Romans 5:18-19
Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one
righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience
of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the
many will be made righteous.
Summary Verse - 2 Corinthians 5:21
For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of
God in Him.
What Jesus Accomplished Through His Life and Death
1. Propitiation - satisfied God’s anger and wrath
2. Redemption - paid the price to set us free
3. Justification - declared righteous by God
C. S. Lewis
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God.
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