THE FACTS WHY JESUS CAME

John 1:11 (King James Version)
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

INTRODUCTION:

Jesus was AN IS the greatest missionary of all time.

In fact, He left heaven and His exalted position there to come down to earth on the greatest mission trip of all time.

His mission was to redeem the earth and save mankind from the fatal results of Adam’s fall.

I’m glad Jesus came, glory to His name.

He stayed long enough to finish the work of redemption.

  1. HE CAME TO

Luke 19:10 (King James Version)
10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Mark 2:17 (King James Version)
17 When Jesus heard it, he 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.

John 5:30 (King James Version)
30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

  1. SEEK and SAVE the lost . . . Luke 19:10
  2. CALL sinners to repentance . . . Mark 2:17
  3. DO the will of the Father . . . John 5:30

It is a fact of history that Jesus Christ came into the world.

However, His coming into the world was not the beginning of Jesus.

  • He was the word that was in the beginning.
  • He came from eternity.
  • He always was.
  • He is eternal God. He came from glory, the glory that was before the world ever was (see John 17:5).

He temporarily laid aside His glory and took a body, through the Virgin Mary, to live in long enough to die for the sins of the world.

  1. HE REVEALED

John 14:9 (King James Version)
9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?

John 3:16 (King James Version)
16 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.

Matthew 28:18 (King James Version)
18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

  1. God’s PERSON . . . John 14:9
  2. God’s PLAN . . . John 3:16
  3. God’s POWER . . . Matthew 28:18

Jesus came to reveal the plan of God - - the plan for the salvation AND God’s power over nature, over demons, over disease, and even over death.

  1. HE TOOK

2 Corinthians 5:21 (King James Version)
21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

  1. SIN in His own body . . . 2 Corinthians 5:21
  2. He became flesh and then became sin for us"that we might be made the righteousness of God In Him".
  3. the greatest thing that Jesus took was our sins.
  4. He became our substitute and died as a sinner for us.
  5. He finished the work given Him to do.