This is the rough outline I used for last thursday's Alpha talk on "why did jesus die?" Just to make clear to anyone who thinks I am into the penal substitutionary view as an exclusive explanation of the cross, I have no problem with using the outline Alpha proposed (which is almost identical to this one)

Why did Jesus Die?
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son that whoever believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life� John 3:16

�For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God� Romans 3:23
Results of sin
- denial
-Pollution of sin
For from within, out of men�s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly� Mark 7:21-23
-Penalty for sin
�For the wages of sin is death�� Romans 6:23
-Partition of sin
�But your iniquities have separated you from your God� Isaiah 59:2

The Solution
�He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness �� 1 Peter 2:24
Agony of the Cross- emotional more than physical
�We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all� Isaiah 53:6
�My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?�
�All who see me mock me�
�I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint�
�They have pierced my hands and my feet�
�They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing��
Psalm 22:1,7,14,16,18

The Results of Jesus death

The Law Court
For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely by his grace Through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus� Romans 3:23-24 < The Temple �God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood� Romans 3:25 The Home God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men�s sins against them. 2 Corinthians 5:19 ��I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me�� Galatians 2:20