WHY DID JESUS…?

 

WHY DID JESUS COME TO EARTH?

You and I have been caught up in a maze which leads to lack, want, fear, spiritual poverty, and eventually to death, from which there is only One Way out. Jesus. He is showing us the only way out of this trap. He is showing us how to be truly and powerfully set free.

Jesus has brought the way to a magnificent freedom, so that we can put away all the religious entrapment, cast aside all the religious garbs and dress ourselves in the freedom of Christ.

You and I can choose to dress ourselves in freedom’s clothing of love, and joy, in peace, and in kindness, goodness, self-control, faithfulness, and gentleness.

We can forsake fear, doubt, lack and want, for in Him, everything good is provided for us and nothing is impossible for us.

This requires, first, that we must, as Jesus forcefully taught, repent – we must change the way we see Him. We must change how we think about Him and what He taught. We must repent, for the Kingdom is now at hand.

Furthermore, we must repent, for the Kingdom is near to us. It is, in fact, within us!

Please listen, friends. Jesus did not come to earth neither to start a religion nor start another religious denomination. Those things are the inventions of men and women.

Jesus came to earth both as God and as a man. He has shown us God the Father, as He is the exact representation of Him. Therein, He came to warn us of our impending doom and to buy us back, (redeem us), from the death and destruction of our sin and to prepare us to become like Him, to live with and rule with Him, eternally.

It was only in this way that we, humankind, could relate to Him and understand Him, as He spoke to us in the language of our lives.

Jesus came to earth as the fulfillment and the satisfaction of the requirements of Jewish Law of the Torah. (see Matthew 5:17). We no longer need to be held captive to external written religious laws. We have been set free from the bondage, the slavery of man-made laws, and from the sentence of sin and death. Jesus’ cancelled those things and has written in new governing ‘law’ of love and companionship in our hearts and minds.

Jesus came to earth to seek and save those who are ‘lost’ to those things. (see Luke 19:10).

(The ‘lost’ are, according to the Greek language in which these verses were written, are those who have been permanently and absolutely cut off from God and from life. They are, from birth, perishing and will die both physically and spiritually, i.e., their very essence will perish. Their existence will come to ruin and will be destroyed in a miserable end.)

Jesus said, “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me. And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that of everything that He has given Me I will lose nothing, but will raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.” (see John 6:38-40)

Jesus said, “I have come to cast fire upon the earth… Do you think that I came to provide peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division; for from now on five members in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three. They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” (see Luke 12:49-53).

Jesus is dividing the light from the darkness, dividing the sheep from the goats, dividing the wheat from the tares.

Jesus said, “I have come as Light into the world, so that no one who believes in Me will remain in darkness.” (see John 12:46).

Jesus said, “You say correctly that I am a king. For this purpose I have been born, and for this I have come into the world: to testify to the truth.” (see John 18:37).

Those are the reasons.

Following Jesus does not mean that we are recruiting for a religious movement or a certain, denomination. Following Jesus means we are to be like Him, doing the very things He told us we can and must be doing. We are to tell everyone about the Good News, that Jesus has come to set us free, to save us, and to put us upon the high and glorious domain of the King!

The old things have passed, and the New has come!

Your Brother and Friend,

Mike Young

SAVED: Strong’s concordance #4982 = sozo = safe, save, make whole, heal, be whole.

1) to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction; (from injury or peril)

2) to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health

3) to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue

4) to save in the technical biblical sense; to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment

To be made safe, saved, made whole, healed, to be made whole, and kept safe and sound, rescued from danger or destruction in your marriage; with your family; with your friends; in your career or job; in your body, mind, soul and spirit; where you live; where you travel; while you sleep and when you get up.

Don’t be deceived, in this world you will have tribulations (troubles and stresses), but the eyes of the LORD are toward the righteous, and His ears are toward their cry for help. The face of the LORD is against evildoers, to eliminate the memory of them from the earth.

The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears and rescues them from all their troubles. The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. The afflictions of the righteous are many, but the LORD rescues him from them all. (see Psalms 34:16-19)