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• Why is there a price to pay?

• Why is there a price to pay? • Why can’t God just forgive us? Why did Jesus have to die?

• Why is there a price to pay? • Why can’t God just forgive us? Why did Jesus have to die? • Why did God even bother to save us?

Romans 3:21-26 But now, apart from law, the righteousness of God has been disclosed, and is attested by the law and the prophets, the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction,since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith. He did this to show his righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over the sins previously committed; it was to prove at the present time that he himself is righteous and that he justifies the one who has faith in Jesus.

• Why is there a price to pay?

Genesis 2:15-17 The L ORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”

• Why is there a price to pay? • Why can’t God just forgive us? Why did Jesus have to die?

Deuteronomy 32:4 The Rock, his work is perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God, without deceit, just and upright is he…

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Hebrews 10:1-4 Since the law has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered year after year, make perfect those who approach. Otherwise, would they not have ceased being offered, since the worshipers, cleansed once for all, would no longer have any consciousness of sin? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin year after year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

• Why is there a price to pay? • Why can’t God just forgive us? Why did Jesus have to die? • Why did God even bother to save us?

John 12:23-24 Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”

• Why is there a price to pay? • Why can’t God just forgive us? Why did Jesus have to die? • Why did God even bother to save us?