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Why Did Jesus Die for My Sins?

Because God is Love and He is Faithful · Shining Light Baptist Church · November 15, 2026

 

This question has a variety of ways you can answer it.

What are the most familiar answers?

• To save me
• Because he loved me
• To pay for my sins
• So I can be forgiven

These are all correct; but there is much more to the answer than these short statements provide for us.

And there is so much more we can learn about God when we spend time with the question.

Spend Time With The Question:

There is a difference between knowing the right answer and understanding the answer.

There is a difference between knowing the right answer and knowing why it is the right answer.

Notes:

Spend Time With The Question:

Entire books have been written on the subject of thinking. Years ago the SLBC family wanted to get me a gift, so my wife told them I like books by John C. Maxwell. His books specialize in leadership and growth. The church was excited to purchase me his latest book: it happened to be titled Thinking for a Change.

I was honored but a little unsure if they were trying to tell me it was time to start thinking for a change LOL.

Actually, John’s book sold more than 285,000 copies by 2008. In his book John teaches thinking as a skill to practice and develop.

• We must learn to spend time with questions, even if we know the answer.
• We must learn to spend time with biblical doctrine, to further develop our understanding.

Being a competent witness for Jesus Christ will be challenging if we only know the right answer but we don’t know why it is the right answer, or how to explain the answer.

The Next Three Weeks

Over the next three Sundays, each sermon will spend time with the question “Why Did Jesus Die for My Sins?”

We know that His death paid for our sins and reconciled us to God. But by spending time with this question, we will learn more about who God is and His character.

The Bible Storyline Connection

Through the Bible Storyline series, we have learned that the Bible is one continuous story of God’s unstoppable plan to overcome evil, redeem creation, and establish His kingdom on earth.

The time we spend with this question will equip us to appreciate God, worship God, and devote ourselves to being His image bearer on earth.

The plan is for each sermon to answer the question with two attributes of God:

• November 15 Because God is Love and He is Faithful
• November 22 Because God is Holy and Just
• November 29 Because God is Merciful and Gracious

Why Did Jesus Die for My Sins? The First Answer in our discussion is:

Because God is Love

John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

This most familiar verse to people is the verse that tells us God loves us.

But when did God start loving me?

• Was it after Jesus died for me?
• Was it after I repented of my sin?

Trick Question: God never started loving me.

Ephesians 1:4 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

God has always loved me; and God has always loved you.

God Loves me because He loves me!

Deuteronomy 7:7–8 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Moses tells the nation of Israel, God did not love you because of who you are but because of who He is.

This truth is a death blow to pride!

Love is part of who God is, not merely something God does!

1 John 4:16 16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

Because God is love, He therefore loves us and His love is expressed through what He does.

1 John 4:9 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

Why Did Jesus Die for My Sins?

He died for my sins because God is love.

Notes:

Think About It!

Our familiar answers to the question “Why did Jesus die for my sins?” were:

• To save me
• Because he loved me
• To pay for my sins
• So I can be forgiven

BUT,

• Jesus would not have died for my sins if God was not love
• Jesus would not love me if God is not love
• Jesus would not pay for my sins if God is not love
• There would be no forgiveness to purchase if God was not love

How does this truth affect the way you:

• think about God
• want to worship God
• change how you want to love God
• value God’s love

The second reason Jesus died for my sins is because

God is faithful.

Deuteronomy 7:7–9 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: 8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

In the beginning God created this earth and all that is in it. This earth was the kingdom of God and He placed His image and likeness in it through mankind.

• When Adam and Eve sinned, God was faithful to His original plan of establishing this earth as His kingdom and filling it with His image and likeness. He bound Himself by a promise to send a Savior to conquer our enemy and deliver us from sin.
• When the earth was filled with sin, God was faithful to His plan and His promise. He sent the flood and started over.
• When nations began to fill the earth with sin, God was faithful to His plan and promise. He made a covenant with Abram to create a nation out of his descendants who would be God’s people and He would be their God.
• When they failed God, He was faithful to His promise and in His timing sent His only begotten Son (Jesus) into the world.

Jesus went to Calvary as my substitute. He took the wrath of God for me. God sent Jesus to die for my sin because God is faithful.

When his son John was born, Zechariah worshiped God because of God’s faithfulness to His promise.

Luke 1:68–73 68 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; 73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

After approximately 1,000 years of repeated unfaithfulness by Israel, God sent them a prophet to let them know the only reason they continued to exist was His faithfulness.

Malachi 3:6 6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

No wonder Zechariah responded to God’s faithfulness with

Worship

Consider the question again:

Why Did Jesus Die for My Sins? We are familiar with at least four simple answers:

• To save me
• Because he loved me
• To pay for my sins
• So I can be forgiven

BUT God did not give up on His plan for this earth or me: only because He is faithful.

Because God is faithful, His love for me endured my sin instead of walking away when I failed to love Him, obey Him, or image Him.

Because God is faithful, He kept His promise to pay for my sins, even though I will never earn His love.

Because God is faithful, I am forgiven and one day will be made whole, free from sin, able to love Him and worship Him properly.

Notes:

Spend Time With The Question:

This sermon, along with the next two, will challenge us to spend time with the question.

How has this affected your love for God?

What do you need to confess to God today?

How will you worship God for His love and faithfulness?