15 Reasons Why Jesus Came
1. Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. I Timothy
1:15. "This is a faithful saying, and
worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners; of whom I am chief."
2. Jesus Christ came into the world to call sinners to
repentance. Mark 2:17 "Jesus...saith unto them, They that
are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick:
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance."
3. Jesus Christ came into the world to seek and save the lost.
Luke 19:10 "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save
that which was lost."
4. Jesus came into the world to demonstrate the true purpose of
life and give Himself a ransom. Matthew 20:28 "Even as the
Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and
to give His life a ransom for many."
5. Jesus Christ came into the world to be a King and bear witness
to the truth. John 18:37 "Pilate
therefore said unto Him, Art thou a king? Jesus answered, Thou
sayest that I am a king. To this end
was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I
should bear witness unto the truth.
Everyone that is of the truth heareth My voice."
6. Jesus Christ came into the world to do the Will of His Father.
John 6:38 "For I came down from
heaven, not to do MIne own will, but the will of Him that sent
Me."
7. Jesus Christ came into the world to be a Light in the world.
John 12:46 "I am come a light into the world, that whosoever
believeth on Me should not abide in darkness."
8. Jesus Christ came into the world that men might have the
Abundant Life. John 10:10 "I am come that they might have
life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
9. Jesus Christ came into the world to Judge the world. John 9:39
"And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world,
that they which see not might see; and that they which see might
be made blind."
10. Jesus Christ came into the world to Proclaim or preach the
Good News about the Kingdom of God. Mark 1:38 "And He said
unto them, Let us go into the next towns, that I may preach there
also; for therefore came I forth."
11. Jesus Christ came into the world to die on the cross. John
12:27 "Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father
save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this
hour."
12. Jesus Christ came into the world to fulfill the law. Matthew
5:17 "Think not that I came to destroy the law, or the
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill."
13. Jesus Christ came into the world to be a Divider of men.
Matthew 10:34-35 "Think not that I am come to send peace on
earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to
set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter
against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her
mother-in-law." [Christ makes it necessary to choose between
relatives and the truth. This choice often causes a division].
14. Jesus Christ came into the world because the Father sent Him.
John 20:21 "As My Father hath sent Me, even so send I
you."
A. The Father SENT Jesus to be the Propitiation (atone-ment) for
our sins. I John 4:10 "Herein is love, not that we loved
God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the
propitiation for our sins."
B. The Father SENT Jesus and gave Jesus as the Saviour of the
world. John 3:16-18 "For God so loved the world, that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not
His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that rather the
world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already because
he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of
God."
C. The Father SENT Jesus to bless us by turning us from our
iniquities. Acts 3:26 "Unto you first God, having raised up
His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one
of you from his iniquities."
D. God SENT His Son, to redeem us from the curse of the law.
Galations 4:4-5 "But when the fulness of the time was come,
God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, To
redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons."
E. God SENT His Son to make possible a new power in the hearts of
men, a power to enable him to fulfill the righteousness of the
law. Romans 8:3-4 "For what the law could not do, in that it
was weak through the flesh, God sending His own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the
flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in
us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit."
15. Jesus Christ came into the world as a demonstration of God's
love. I John 4:10 "Herein is love, not that we God, but that
He us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our
sins."
~ Vincent Brushweyler