 What's our greatest need? We need life, eternal life. We need reconciliation with God, a right relationship to the one who has created us in his image and to live for his glory alone. We need forgiveness, forgiveness of sins. We need our guilt removed. We need righteousness in order to stand before him, holiness without which no one will see the Lord. We need his wrath, the wrath that is justly directed against us. We need that wrath to be taken out of the way, to be propitiated. We need to be born again. We need to be made a new creation. Otherwise, without this work, you will perish eternally in hell for your sin. You have offended an eternal God.