WHY DID JESUS COME TO THIS EARTH?
- If he came to teach morals - then we will think that His life was about ethics.
- If he came to fix the environment - then we will think that His life was about trees and plants.
- If he came to model manners and nice living - then we will think that He is like any other role model.
A wrong understanding of why Jesus came will take us in all
sorts of wrong directions! It is crucial we know why He came to the earth. So,
let us read His own words explaining why it was He came.
John 18:37 Jesus answered, "For this I have been
born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth.
Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice."
Mark 1:38 [Jesus] said to them, "Let us go
somewhere else to the towns nearby, so that I may preach there also; for that
is what I came for."
Luke 19:10 Jesus said, "For the Son of Man has
come to seek and to save that which was lost."
Matthew 10:34-35 Jesus said, "Do not think that I
came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.
For I came to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother,
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
Mark 10:45 "For even the Son of Man did not come
to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many."
Matthew 5:17 Jesus said, "I did not come to
abolish but to fulfill."
John 12:27 Jesus said, "For this purpose I came
to this hour. Father, glorify Your name."
John 9:39 And Jesus said, "For judgment I came
into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and that those who see
may become blind".
John 3:16-17 "For God so loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but
have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the
world, but that the world might be saved through Him".
John 10:10 AMPC “...I came that they may have and
enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).”
From the above we see that, "He came to show us the
truth (reality)"; “He came to save us from sin”; However, the most significant purpose is seen in the
last two verses above. John 10:10 shows that He came to do much more than
“save” us from sin and show us reality; all that was a means to
an end. He came for a much higher purpose.
If He only saved us from sin without bringing us into fellowship or oneness with Himself and with the
Father, all the foregoing would have never been enough. He saved us from
sin, and gave us His life, to make it possible for us to become one with the
Father; He brought us into fellowship—the fellowship of the God-kind. He
came to give us a new identity and awaken you to the Fatherhood of God. Now
you’re a child of God, and you’ve got His life and divinity in you.
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