Why Did Jesus Die? To clean up Our Sin.

"So the Lord God said to serpent, "Because you have done this, Cursed are you above all the live stock and all the wild animals!

You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust, all the days of your life.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers.

He will crush your head and you will strike his heel." Genesis 3:14-15 (NIV)

Have you ever wondered why God had to die for our sins? Before Jesus died, believers offered God sacrifices for their sins. The high priest would take the lambs, goats and calves without blemish and sacrifice them and ask God's forgiveness for the believer's sins. If the high priest was unclean, because of his sin the animals died in vain, the high priest died and the sinner's sin was still a problem.

Jesus life and death on that cross completed what God the Father wanted for a sin sacrifice. Jesus was the sinless lamb that would take away the sin of any sinner who simply acknowledged God, accepted His son as the ultimate sacrifice and truly allowed Jesus to be their savior. After his burial he went to hell to crush Satan's head. Yes, Jesus heel was bruised by Satan. But Christ beat death of all the believer's soul that day. Like Jesus your body will one day die. Because he rose from the grave and defeated Satan, you too shall live if you've accepted him as your savior.

I don't have the space to type all of the words in 1 Corinthians 15:35-50, but they are well worth your time to read these verses right now. Just as Jesus Christ was born with an earthly body, he also had a soul living inside that body. ( Jesus was God's son, but he was also God. The deity of God is sometimes hard to understand, but I'll explain it another day.) God made man in His own image; therefore, we also have a human body and a soul. One day in heaven we will also have a heavenly body that our soul will be housed in.