To absorb the wrath of God -- To please his heavenly father -- To learn obedience and be perfected -- To achieve his own resurrection from the dead -- To show the wealth of God's love and grace for sinners --To show his own love for us -- To cancel the legal demands of the law against us -- To become a ransom for many -- For the forgiveness of our sins -- To provide the basis for our justification -- To complete the obedience that becomes our righteousness -- To take away our condemnation -- To abolish circumcision and all rituals as the basis of salvation -- To bring us to faith and keep us faithful -- To make us holy, blameless, and prefect -- To give us a clear conscience -- To obtain for us all things that are good for us -- To heal us from moral and physical sickness -- To give eternal life to all who believe on Him -- To deliver us from the present evil age -- To reconcile us to God -- To bring us to God -- So that we might belong to him -- To give us confident access to the holiest place -- To become for us the place where we meet God -- To bring the Old Testament priesthood to an end and become the eternal high priest -- To become a sympathetic and helpful priest -- To free us from the futility of our ancestry -- To free us from the slavery of sin -- That we might die to sin and live to righteousness -- So that we would die to the law and bear fruit for God -- To enable us to live for Christ and not ourselves -- To make his cross the ground of all our boasting -- To enable us to live by faith in him -- To give marriage its deepest meaning -- To create a people passionate for good works -- To call us to follow his example of lowliness and costly love -- To create a band of crucified followers -- To free us from bondage to the fear of death -- So that we would be with him immediately after death -- To secure our resurrection from the dead -- To disarm the rulers and authorities -- To unleash the power of God in the Gospel -- To destroy the hostility between races -- To ransom people from every tribe and language and people and nation -- To gather all his sheep from around the world -- To rescue us from final judgment -- To gain his joy and ours -- So that he would be crowned with glory and honor -- To show that the worst evil is meant by God for good --