31 Days of Jesus: Why Did He Come?

Today's word prompt for the 31 Days Five Minute Friday Writing Challenge is Why.


Why did he come?

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.-John 3:16-17

Read that again.  Let it wash over you.

Jesus came to save you.  He came to save all of us.  If you are in the world, you are a part of that scripture.

The only requirement, according to the above Scripture, is to believe in Him.  That's when you put your faith and trust in Him.

He came to save the world.  That word "save" is a big word.  It is the Greek word "sozo" and in the original language it means to save, heal, preserve, rescue, and deliver as from danger into safety.

As we will see in the Gospels, Jesus did these things during His earthly ministry.  He saved, healed, and delivered many people from danger into safety.

And ultimately, He did the same for you and me through the scourging he endured, being nailed to the cross, and his resurrection from death.

He did not come to condemn you.  And accuser is one who condemns.

In John chapter 8, there is a story of a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery.  Here's her interaction with Jesus.

"Woman, where are those accusers of yours?  Has no one condemned you?"

  She said, "No one Lord."

And Jesus said to her, "Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more."-John 8:10-11

He is the same always, so He is not condemning you either.

Anytime a voice of condemnation rises up again you, whether another person, or the accuser of our souls, or even our own voice, it is not Him.

He came to give us everlasting life.  Some translations say, "eternal life."

Eternal means age long, unending, as opposing to brief and fleeting.  It never ends.

The word life in that passage is the Greek word "zoe."  That means the God life.  

So, everlasting life is eternal life, never-ending with God.  It was a restoration of what man lost in the Garden of Eden with the fall of man.

He came because God loved us.  Jesus came to demonstrate that God loves us.  

God loves us.  I need to hear this every day.

That is why He came.

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