Romans 5:8-11

Now flip over to another passage, Romans 5, verse 8. Many people in cultural Christianity tend to see salvation solely as forgiveness, as if Christ's love merely grants them forgiveness for their sins, and those who stop there failed to realize the greatness of Christ's love.

So something of this magnitude is evident in the fact that He died not only so that we might be forgiven but also so that we might be justified. He died not only to have our sins blotted out but also that we might be reconciled. He died not merely to save us from punishment, but to give us eternal life.

Romans 5:6-11

So Paul says here that despite our being moral cesspools and without strength, and terrible creatures full of sin, the one who became Jesus Christ decided to give it all for us so that we can be reconciled to God by paying the price for our sins. And He did this, as we will see, silently, as a sheep goes to the slaughter. He did not contend or anything like that. He did not cry out. He did not do those things to get sympathy. He just did His job. And did it well, did it perfectly.