Why Did Christ Die?

I. Boasting in Appearance – Superficial Standards of Judgment 5:12-13

A.  A Proper Answer for Paul's Critics – 12

    1.  Do not become a judge of motives – 12a

    2.  Success is not a proper measuring stick	  12b		
        1 Sam. 16:7  -- Paul probably had this passage in mind

B.  A Life Lived for God and Others  13

II. For the Love of Christ Compels Us 14a

III. Christ Died and Reconciled the World to Himself

A. An Apparent Teaching of Universalism. 14b-15, 19

B.  A Contextual Limitation 15b
    v. 15b – “That they who live”
    Not everyone becomes a living one by Christ's death.
            
C.  For Whom Did Christ Die?

Christ died to redeem a people for Himself – and all who died when He died have eternal life -- Romans 6:1-3

A Visual representation of verse 15	

And he-died for all so-that-the-living-onesmay-live for-themselves no-longer but may-live) for-the-one (who) for-them having-died and having-been-raised.

D.  Why Did Christ Die?

E.  Reconciling the World  v. 19

    1.  Paul himself was reconciled to God at his conversion  v. 18

2. This message is not just for Paul – and not just for Israel – but in this New Covenant age – the gospel of reconciliation extends to the whole world.

3. The message of reconciliation is that good news of the gospel