Three and a half months ago we started studying this passage with the same verse that we will end with today, “For our sake He made Him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” Everything that has ever been done for mankind, from our creation to our redemption has been done by the action of God for our benefit. God works for our sake, everything He does is for His glory but His glory is what brings about our redemption. God’s jealousy, God’s glory, God’s work and God’s action are not about Him doing good for Himself but they are all about Him doing good for us. Romans 8:28 tells us that “all things work together for good” or “In all things God works good” depending on which translation you might be reading. James 1:17 says “Every good and perfect gift is from above and comes down from the Father of lights”. Jesus taught us to pray “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. God is good, everything in Him is good, everything about Him is good, everything He does is good (just and righteous) and yet in all of His goodness He is not content to keep it for Himself, to hide it in the heavens or to hoard it around His throne, He extends His goodness to us, He shares, He gives, he reveals and most of all He loves. All the work of God is “for our sake”; all the goodness of God has been presented to us. But not just to us, God is not just good to those who have already believed, Jesus is not only kind to those that have already chosen to follow, the Spirit is not only working for those that have already bowed their hearts to the Messiah. Jesus said that our “Father in heaven . . . makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.” As we talk about almost every week Peter told us that “God wills that none would perish but that all would come to repentance”. Psalm 145:9 says “The LORD is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made.” “For our sake” is for those who are being saved and those who are perishing, it’s for the lost and the found, for the free and the bound, for those far off and those who have come near, to use Jesus’ words from Matthew 5, it’s for the evil and the good, the just and the unjust. This morning I want us to close our study of this passage by revisiting “for our sake”, by understanding once again what Jesus has done, why the Father asked Him to do it and how we are supposed to live in response. Jesus did something for our sake that I don’t ever get to hold as if it were done for my sake and that I only truly appreciate when I can look into every place in this world and say “it was for your sake”.