12 Reasons Why Jesus Came Into the World
I love my church. It’s all about the full gospel and equipping all of us to know how to share it with the world. Many of my ideas come from sermons, bible studies, or scripture studied in our monthly equip meetings. It’s important to be plugged into a church that preaches the full gospel and compromises nothing just to make people come in the doors for a head count.
Part of our foundation is to understand why Jesus came to earth and became the ultimate blood sacrifice for us all.
1. Fulfill the Law
Matthew 5:17 - Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
The Old Testament is full of the Law of God and the books of the Prophets. It is hard to wrap our heads around some of those laws, especially all the blood sacrifices. However, the ancients knew that life was in the blood and it was used to atone for the sins of the people. However, it had no final power. Amongst all the laws and prophets, there is a thread woven through scripture that points at Jesus. His sacrifice on the cross with His blood was the final sacrifice.
2. To Cause Division
Luke 12:51 - Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.
Matthew 10:34 - Do not think that I came to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.
That’s quite the shocker when you first read it. However, He also follows up these words with why this happens. He wants us to put God first and love Him more than even our family. This will cause division because as people step out to follow Jesus, there will be someone close who has issues with it. I had a pivotal change in my friendships almost immediately. I know I would not have made it through everything else that happened that year if I had not learned how to walk with and relate to Jesus. My first church equipped everyone with the foundations and how to build their faith on them. From there we could go out as a disciple of Christ no matter how our decision to follow turned our world on its head.
3. To Call Sinners
Mark 2:17 - Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
Luke 5:32 - I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.
God so loved the world that He sent us Jesus. He knew we needed to see the truth of our ways that are far different from His. Jesus came to earth to show us who God really is and to a make a new covenant with us based on a relationship with Him. His example shows us how to live as a child of God and know the difference between right and wrong.
4. To Serve and Give His Life
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.
He showed the way to God, helped many with miracles, and went to the cross as the ultimate blood sacrifice required to fulfill God’s Law. That sacrifice opened the way for all of us to have a direct relationship with God through Jesus. Even now, He sits at the right hand of His Father as our advocate.
5. To Proclaim the Good News
Luke 4:18-19 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. (This is a quote from Isaiah 61:1-2.)
We are captives in this world if we are walking to the beat of what the world wants us to be. We can feel the friction when it goes against who we were meant to be, even when we aren’t sure of who we should be. I felt this way as I tried to fit in many places I did not. Now I know where I fit because of Jesus. He’s the key to it all and filled that hole inside that nothing else could. It’s why accepting Him turned into twenty-two years of relationship, while everything else the world gave fizzled within a year, more often within months. The world does not have the good news without Jesus.
6. To Seek and Save the Lost
Luke 19:10 - for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.
It isn’t the ones right with God that need to be found. Also, as noted above, he calls the sinners and heals the sick. He did not come to give us any of this perfectly because that would require taking us to heaven. No, those that follow Christ must keep doing as He did. We must seek and save the lost by pointing them to Jesus. Therefore, a believer’s testimony is so important. Our story tells the world how we were changed by Jesus.
7. That the World Might Be Saved
John 3:17 - For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
God is not sitting in heaven ready to zap us with lightning bolts for having done wrong. He hates the wrong, but He loves the people of this world. Jesus is our access to a loving God. Yes, discipline comes, but it is done with love so that we know wrong from right.
8. To do His Father’s Will
John 6:38-40 - For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Jesus will lose nothing that the Father gave Him. We are called by God and all who are called will not be lost. We will be with Jesus in eternity. As soon as we accept Him, we are adopted into the family and have nothing to fear. We will learn how to do God the Father’s will like Jesus did. Jesus is our example.
9. For Judgment
John 9:39 - And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”
The wrong of the world has to be judged, but we all have the chance to see if we want to. Those that don’t want to see who Jesus really is will remain blind to all God offers. That is a scary prospect. I have walked down the path denying God. When I saw the truth, the judgment of it made me realize how wrong I was. None of it made sense until that moment. This shows that God’s love can only go so far and there will be people that never come out of the dark and stay blind to the truth.
10. Give Abundant Life
John 10:10 - The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.
This is where I got the idea for the title of this blog, An Abundant life. This is not a better, richer or happier life. It is a life that is fuller in the sense that we will become a child of God. We will have access to the Holy Spirit as our guide through all the trials and disappointments of life in a fallen world. We will have access to a power and joy that we can only get from God.
11. To Take Believers Out of the Dark
John 12:46 - I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness.
Jesus shines light on the truth. This light will save us from the darkness of our enemy. This ties in with the judgment in that the light can reveal all truth and lies. Upon accepting Jesus, the light, along with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, will show us where we are right and wrong. We may still be here in a fallen world, but our choices will be built on a foundation of truth that the world can never understand. A truth that gives power and joy no matter our circumstances.
12. To Bear Witness to the Truth
John 18:37 - Pilate therefore said to Him, “Are You a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”
God’s will is for us to abide in His will, knowing His truth so we can lead an abundant and free life in the light. This is the good news that can save us all when we accept Jesus as Lord and Savior.
Conclusion
I shared this longer post to help you see what Jesus said about Himself and why He had to come into the world as He did. Please take the time to assess where you stand with Him because it is between you and Him. I’m a believer who can point the way, but I can’t force you to do anything with it. That would be rude and unloving if I tried it that way. It would not reflect His light. I pray you decide to accept Him today.
To any believers reading this, I pray it encourages you to commit to a deeper relationship with Jesus, our example of how to live with love and truth.