WHY DID JESUS COME?

 

WHY DID JESUS COME?

 

2Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. 

 

  Jesus did eternal things in His brief walk among mankind, many being recorded in God’s Word. In reading the Bible we see him teaching love, compassion, correction; how to live abundantly . . . good things, but what of His primary mission? What was it? Though the world thereafter changed, was that central to His ministry?

  Overall Jesus came to do the Father’s will: “And seeing Him, they were amazed. And His mother said to Him, Child, why have you done so to us? Behold, your father and I have looked for you, greatly distressed. And He said to them, Why did you look for Me? Do you not know that I must be about My Father's business? And they did not understand the word which He spoke to them.” (MKJV Lk.2:48-50; also note Jn.5:30)    

  Central and basic to His mission was to fulfill His Father’s plan of saving the lost, those “already condemned”. (John chapter 3; Mt.9:13; Lk.19:10) God providing salvation, we individually believing or remaining lost.

  Though it shall not be so, my prayer is that all would come to saving repentance.

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