Why do we need a Savior?
• God is holy
• God cannot tolerate sin
• and every human has a basic sin nature.

God’s principal commandment was to ‘love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength’ (Deut. 6:5).

Isa. 53:1-3, PROPHESIED THAT THE COMING SAVIOR WOULD SUFFER.
• The promised Savior would grow up as a “young plant” in Isa. 53:2
• The promised Savior described as a “shoot” that will come from the “stump of Jesse.”
• The promised Messiah or Savior would be “despised and rejected” and a “man of sorrows” and “acquainted with grief.”

It’s crucial that we understand the OT sacrifices did not take away sin. They were…
• signs,
• pointers,
• a foreshadowing of what was to come.

And in our NT, we read where Peter referred to the Savior as being Jesus in 1 Peter 2:24. Peter wrote, “He (Jesus) himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might - die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.”

Next, we see in vv. 4-12, that THE COMING SAVIOR WOULD BE THE SUBSTITUTIONARY SACRIFICE OR PAYMENT FOR OUR SIN.
• The writer of Hebrews said, those OT sacrifices were only an “annual reminder of sins,” because “it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sin” (Hebrews 10:3-4).
• The promised Savior would be the “lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). Though the Savior would carry the “sorrows” and “griefs” of all of us who deserve the punishment for sin which is – DEATH.

What would move someone to do this?
• LOVE!!

In 2 Peter 3:3-4 we see this reality, “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. Peter answers in verse 9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
1 Peter 2:24-25, “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 25 For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

1 Peter 2:24-25, “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 25 For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

Romans 8:2 says, “And because you belong to him, the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.” Once saved, our sins are forgiven, or “washed away.”

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